I am trying to remind myself there are a lot of sick and grieving people out there, and to be patient, but when I waste a lot of time trying something simple (order groceries) and the website keeps giving me error messages and I call for help and wait on the phone for help and get disconnected three different times, and still don't have my ( Read more... )

After far too long (life has been uncooperative), my singing partner came over today so we could practice. I'd been at work for a half-day and came back to tend seedlings briefly then try to set up the living room for music. I ended up picking up some cat mess and then went to open windows for cross-ventilation and to make it less likely that my ( Read more... )

Sometimes life is unnecessarily difficult, and especially so when dealing with people who don't answer the question you asked, insisting instead on answering some other question that they think is more important.

I went to get my new phone over the weekend, and didn't have time to do much with it. Today, coming home from work, I decided to try taking some pictures. No luck. Oh, the "camera" ap came up, it made a nice shutter noise, but the pictures didn't save anywhere. I finally resorted to calling for technical assistance, wondering what totally obvious ( Read more... )

I decided this weekend I needed to bite the bullet and get a new cell phone, but virtuously put it off until a couple of writing deadlines had passed (and stories submitted). So, today after work I looked up a close Verizon store, wrote down the address, and called them to check their hours. I told the cheerful, friendly (and doubtless cute) ( Read more... )

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