Mercury’s Mad At Me

For the last two weeks, I’ve been bothering with things I usually don’t even have to think about, and I’ve lost a lot of time doing it. First, it was Hulu. We pay for a bundle package, and Disney + and Max got added to it. That would be fine, but every time I tried to sign in to Hulu, I went straight to Disney +, and it wouldn’t let me past it to get to Hulu to see my favorite shows. I fiddled with “troubleshooting” for “can’t sign in to Hulu” for a few hours, three days in a row, but I kept getting passed back and forth between Hulu and Disney so much, I got confused. Finally, when I was ready to call for help, Disney sent me a page with a new password that would change my old ones so that Hulu, Disney, and Max all had the same one. And everything worked. A frustrating experience, but it’s behind me now.

I sat down to work on my short story the next day and decided to polish everything I’d written so far. I got the first three pages done and was so happy with them, I hit “save.” And they all disappeared. Poof! Gone. When I tried to get them back, I found out my entire office program was frozen. No response to anything. I tried a few things to wake it up, then remembered what a wise computer guru once told me. “Before you get gung-ho, turn off your computer, count to 25, then turn it back on.” And voila! Everything was there again, including the changes I’d made. I got lucky.

Then our landline phones went dead. We did the unplug everything, wait a while, and plug them back in. No luck. HH called Frontier and they said they’d send somebody out in two days, but the next day, the phones worked. Lucky again.

Next, I was typing away, adding new pages to my short story when I went to hit enter and the pinkie finger on my left hand clicked something. I’ll never know what. But after that, I couldn’t type anything new. I could hit the keys, but nothing showed up. I looked through Edit, View, and Layout, but never figured out how to fix it. It was like I’d put my keyboard on pause. But on the third day, everything worked again. Who knows?

The horoscope said that planets are changing signs, so I hope Mercury moves on and is nicer to the next person it visits. As for me, if everything just works like it used to, I’ll be happy.