Friday, July 20, 2012

Time Zones_Webinar

Have you been so frustrated you wonder what went wrong? .

I was excited to find out about a webinar and sent an email three weeks before it was due to start with no response. I resent the email again  a few days before, and then a day before it was due to begin and had a link provided. Bingo.

I went to the link, paid my money, and checked the time zones, and double-checked the time zones.
I clicked on the link. It had already begun. Well I thought it had as here it was up and running and apparently now finished. As I began to read I realised it was the wrong webinar.  *sighs*

Anyhow, I emailed hours before the right webinar was supposed to start and waited a few more hours. I received the link and registered at two in the morning. Phew. Finally I was in. I checked the link. Yup it was working. So I set my alarm. I was up at 5.40am, grabbed a coffee, switched on my computer and went to the link.
Hell no. It stated 'This webinar is now finished.'  I missed out. Damn and double damn.  Talk about frustrated.

At least I will have access to the webinar in about a week's time, but I had a pitch ready to go. Oh well, that's what I get for living on the other side of the world to the Webinar I wanted to participate in, and going by the wrong time zone.
It's the first time I've been caught out by different time zones. So hopefully next time I will triple check. I thought of going back to bed to get some sleep, but there is some writing to get done so I'm off to work on that.

It's Friday again, so have a great weekend everyone. :)

Update.

The flu is done and dusted. Almost two weeks. Phew, and not a lot of writing done. I'm making up for it this week and my next novel is c...