Fortunately...Unfortunately--Today's Version

Fortunately, I keep cloud and external hard drive back ups. 

Unfortunately...late at night as I complete one final task--compiling contact info of Japanese poets for an organizer of a poetry festival in Vietnam--my new MacBook freezes.

Fortunately...I have an old MacBook I can dust off, and in the morning the draft email can still be accessed on old MacBook and sent.

Unfortunately...new MacBook remains frozen.

Fortunately...I don't have morning classes and can talk at length with Japan's Apple support.

Unfortunately...support says no appointments are available at the Apple store in Shibuya until Friday.

Fortunately...there is a late afternoon appointment available in Ginza, so I change my email password to be safe, and take old computer and new computer to the university.

Unfortunately...old computer has trackpad problems of its own, and it, too, freezes.

Fortunately...I have the appointment at the Apple store, so I can take both MacBooks and in the meantime access gmail on my iPhone.

Unfortunately...changing my email password means that gmail no longer works on my iPhone.

Fortunately...the Apple store employee says all the right kind words.

Unfortunately...new MacBook will take a week to repair; old MacBook will take a week to repair.

Fortunately...nice Apple store employee heeds my plaintive tone and scrambles to arrange for a repair of old MacBook today.

Unfortunately...gmail on iPhone won't be accessible for two days and rush work on Tomo galley corrections will be tough using old MacBook.

Fortunately...when I get home, a wonderful Cambodian curry dinner is waiting. And there is an email from the festival organizer with an official invitation to all the poets I suggested to her PLUS an official invitation to me as well to present at the Asian Poetry Festival in February in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Whew!

Inspired by Remy Charlip's Fortunately.