It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one ever, ever has enough time to get done everything that they want to do, and that the more one would like to just sit down and complete a specific task, the greater the likelihood that something else will come along and completely disrupt things.

Such is my day today.

Modem problems: apparently fixed, as nothing bad has happened since talking with the Comcast people on Saturday ( Read more... )

Today, so far, has been full of minor annoyances that add up to one nice big ball of frustration ( Read more... )

When I was thinking earlier that I didn't have all that much to do this afternoon, that was not a signal for the Universe at Large to send someone to flip a switch they weren't supposed to, thus cutting off all power to my lab and shutting everything down. When the power came back on, things didn't boot up quite the way they were supposed to, and ( Read more... )