A Weekend In Hacker Hell

[katstales]

I so needed my very own, personal Satedan butt-kicker this weekend. As if the threat of ice all weekend wasn't bad enough, my husband's eBay account was hacked Saturday. What fun...NOT. This--I hesitate to use the term "person" here--jerk managed to list almost 50 expensive items for sale before he was noticed. Hubby found him when he logged on to check email and got a slew of listing notices for things he hadn't listed. So he logged into eBay and immediately changed his password. Without going into all the gory details, his account was temporarily suspended (which he understood, but was understandably upset about) and the listings removed. Had we not contacted them, he would have been charged well over a hundred dollars in listing fees. NOT cool! Anyway, after many emails and phone calls to verify identities, by this evening the fees had been credited (though he still thinks the balance is higher than it should be) and he can resume normal account activities. Only he's now lost the entire weekend, during which he'd finally planned to go through all the stuff he's bought to sell--something I've been after him to do for months now. So all of his boxes and bags of stuff are still sitting around and cluttering up my bedroom and closet.

::headdesk::

To add to the frustration, I delayed taking the Christmas tree down, as I didn't want all those boxes sitting around to stumble over if the power went out. And until the tree is down, I can't get to the decorations on the shelves behind it. Then my daughter came down with the bug that's going around, and of course my granddaughter was here for the weekend. Then hubs decided Saturday evening that he wanted to replace the crappy mouse for the desktop, so we had to take the little tyke along with us. And while she was very well behaved, it wasn't so much fun dragging all the stuffed animals, Pixter, and various other items she insisted on having along in the rain. (Bottom line: she really wanted to stay with mom, who was really, really sick by then and needed to rest.) And we'd already been out the night before shopping for groceries and other emergency supplies in the rain, so I really wasn't eager to repeat the experience again the next day.

But hubs has his new mouse/keyboard combo, daughter has the good drugs and is feeling better already, and the ice stayed on the other side of the river. So frustration factors aside, it really could have been so much worse. :)

Hope you all had a great weekend--and a safe, dry, and warm week ahead!!

Comments

[alasse-fae.livejournal.com]

awww *hugs*

If hubby got the wireless mouse and keyboard combo that i did, I warn you the mouse requires batteries to be changed at least once a week, so get rechargable! The keyboard I've not had to change the batteries since I got it.

Will think on your fic idea as I slog through the rain to see my ungrateful patients. (boy can I relate to Carson sometimes - lol)

[katstale.livejournal.com]

We've had several different wireless combos and our first really ate the batteries, too. So we already had a fairly large stash of the rechargables. *g* Thanks for the warning anyway!

No hurry on the fic idea. I've had another thought, which I'll run by you later. Hope you didn't get too wet seeing those ungrateful patients--Carson would indeed be proud. ::grins::