It’s after midnight, Friday night, and I can’t get my next program in the web design class to download.  It’s pretty complicated, at least for me, and the instruction sheet (all nine pages of it) and the 13 minute podcast which I have reviewed twice have only confused me more.  Though the course is supposed to be for people without web design experience, it is obvious that SOME computer experience would have made this easier.  The underlying knowledge of basic computer giberish would have been a good thing to have.

For example, my instructions say things like “switch to the proper drive and into the ruby directory.”  Right.  What and where is the proper drive?    “Enter the rus command, this will add ruby and rails to your path.”  Right again.  “Create a sample application with the sqlite3 as the database.”  OMG.   To be fair, there ARE intricate instructions under each of these headings.  But honest I have no idea where I went wrong.  My application won’t open after hours of messing with this.

So I have sent out a SOS to the class, maybe some kind hearted fellow student will come to my aid.  Meanwhile, Katie has gone to sleep, not a good sign, because she will be wide awake and bouncing on the bed come early morning, which isn’t that many  hours away.

I hope tomorrow goes better.  I am giving the whole day over to getting this application installed.  The professor said this was a “mindless” assignment and would only take about 5 minutes.  I’ve spent more than four hours on it and am nowhere.  I think perhaps it is me that is mindless.