Computer Connection Issues

It is so frustrating when the internet (and cable) companies keep changing things in the background, forcing you to endlessly update.  At the moment, I seem to be completely locked out of Paypal, and since I refuse to do biometric verification, I am going to close down my account with them, though I certainly want to transfer the funds out first!

My phone is not upgraded enough to get work emails and so forth.  That's actually not a bad thing, and if work absolutely insists on my being connected 24/7, then they will have to pay for the upgrade or provide me a work phone.  I'm much more annoyed that Google wallet says it won't work on my phone starting today actually, as I have some summer concert tickets on there.  It says Android needs to be upgraded, but I seriously doubt this phone has the memory to upgrade.  I guess I'll find out.

Perhaps the most baffling and annoying is that MailStore has suddenly completely stopped working with Bell to backup my email.  It just says the connection was forcibly refused!  I'm sure this is something on the Bell side of things, though I suppose there is a tiny chance that it is a new firewall setting, but this isn't such a major provider that MailStore is going to go to the effort of releasing new instructions on what to do, and I can't imagine calling up Bell is going to be illuminating at all.  I am going to attempt migrating to a new version of MailStore, though I need to back the old stuff up on a different hard drive before I do that.  Anyway, this is all super annoying and really the last thing I wanted to be dealing with right now.

I'm also a bit frustrated by SFYS, as they don't even have the courtesy of saying whether my piece(s) was accepted.  Given that they extended the deadline, presumably because they didn't have enough scripts, if my piece isn't selected tonight, then I'm just going to cut my ties with them completely.  It is completely unhelpful for my motivation to try to get in with a cold read series that won't even take my work!  It is so unfortunate, but that's just the way it goes.  There were basically three incarnations of SFYS (that I was involved with at any rate) before this one.  I had mixed success with the first one, but there were so many actors coming by and the vibe was so positive, that it made up for that.  Then I had an almost perfect acceptance record with the second and third incarnations.  Those days are over sadly...

I'm also pissed off at the TTC.  I mean what else is new.  I am grateful that they didn't strike in the end (or at least for now).  But they really messed up my Sunday, though I'm not sure it is worth writing about.  The TTC is so unreliable these days, and I just try to bike instead when possible, and in fact I'm about to bike off to work right now.  Ciao!

Edit (6/10) My piece is being read tonight.  Yea!