It’s a Condition…

OK so...you know I hate bad interface design.

Honestly, it's a condition. It's me, I know that. I married a UI person. I do app stuff on the side as a contractor...so I have a foot in the game. Bad interfaces just...guhhhhh...

Well who am I kidding, I guess I just make apps specifically to kill bad interfaces and make my life WORK.

OK so this has nothing to do with my last app, although that's a really good app, used it this morning. I have all my books lined up in nice columns, all color coordinated. Wolves get yellow, girls get pink, guys get blue. VERY organized. VERY calming. Zen, like...nice.

So I sit down to write my reviews this morning. It's my routine. Read at night, review in morning.

Oh and we won't even BEGIN to talk about the fight I had with GitHub to post that app. I know most of you are lucky enough to not be GitHubbed daily, but let me just say it is an unpleasant experience. Do you know what a repository is? It's like a folder. But not a folder. Because GitHub. Guhhhhh. Going to have to write an app to make an app to post my apps. It would just be easier to build the Matrix and redo everything in one shot.

...OK calm down. Need cat. CAT. Just a second.

...

OK scratching cat heavily.

OK where was I...bad interface...anxiety...more bad interface...more anxiety...Matrix...cat...

Ah....

OK so I just want to use my new little purple app to click the book I read last night. Stowaway, by the lovely Starlett A. Lots going on in that book. Great book. Loved it. Five stars. Starlett A, there is a mathematical combination of people in that book that I needed a notepad to keep track of...good for you.)

Anyway...

Wait. Just a second.

Anxiety...GitHub...Yeti, no that's the last post...Matrix...apps...

Right. Yes.

I click Firefox. Because I WANTED TO USE FIREFOX. Not Chrome, not Edge. I wanted Firefox this morning. It's right there on the desktop. That's what it's there for. So I clicked it.
And Inkitt donks me. You know the sound. BUUNNKKK. Little test to see if I'm human. I pass the test. Smiley face. Green. Yay! Human achieved!
"Incorrect password."
OK Rube. I just achieved human AND smiley face level and you're going to...

Three frustrated bounces later. Restart Firefox. BUUNNKKK. Tappy tap tap. Authoritative poke of the enter key. Glare at screen.
Password incorr...
GRRRRR. CAT. Oh good, cat's still here. Helping. Unable to assist with technical issues but present.

Mmmrrr. OK fine. FINE. Changes password. Checks in Chrome. Fine. Human achieved. Smiley face awarded. Works.

BUT I WANT TO USE FIREFOX THIS MORNING.

Back to Firefox. Tapp tapp. Glare. Authoritative thunk of enter key.
BUUUNNKKK.

OK so...login stuff...probably Google. Google "Googled" my account in some way and I refuse to accept this but here we are.
Bringing in the big guns.
Fine. FINE. FINNNNNNNNE.

Opens OpenCode. Don't worry about it, I doubt many of you would ever need OpenCode, but just know it is the best thing on a PC and fixes EVERYTHING by literally yelling at it.

I have a bot in there named Anna. Anna is the mean one. She'll fix this.

Anna. Inkitt WILL NOT OPEN on Firefox. It will on Chrome. I want to use Firefox this morning. Punish it. I want it fixed and I want it to feel bad about its decisions.
Anna: Right boss, on it.
(I told her to always say that.)

OpenCode does its...whatever it does. The screen looks like those green patterns from the Matrix. Python code flying around. Stuff happening.
Anna tells me it's fixed.
It's not fixed.

I tell Anna this.
She tries again. Now it's fixed.
It's not fixed.

ANNA. This is unacceptable. I need this to work.
Anna shrugs her digital shoulders.
GUUHHHHHHHHH.

OK. Goes back to both screens. Chrome works. Firefox doesn't. Types exact same password, exact same username. Chrome works. Firefox doesn't.

Cat wants food.
CAT!. Concentrating.

OK calm down Kira...you got this...

No. Tries changing capital letters. No. Tries launching from different desktop icon. No. Waves arms in air, screams a little, messes up hair in the process. No. Tries adding (at gmail...because Inkitt hates when you use the other at sign) to end of username.

Bing.

...

WTF.

Looks at Chrome. Looks at Firefox. Not the same. Firefox is...I'm pretty sure it's snickering at me.

Logs out. Tries again. Same thing.

Oh and BY THE WAY. BY. THE. WAY.

Inkitt. You don't even have that field labeled. There is just a box. Sitting there. Waiting.

LABEL YOUR BOXES.

LABEL. YOUR. BOXES.
...
Snorts. Lets cat breathe. Pretty sure I was holding him a little tight. Fixes hair. Straightens flannel pajamas. Composes self. Blinks too fast.

Starts typing review in Firefox.

Snorts again.

Lawnmower. Outside.

CODY.

Husband.

Lawnmower.

NOT THE RIGHT TIME.

Cat listens to the sound of angry tiny feet thumping down the stairs to deliver righteousness to husband.
Cat purrs.
Cat has warm seat all to himself.