Mercury in retrograde or just my luck

Posted on | June 11, 2008 | 4 Comments

I had a stomach thing going on yesterday so kept myself at home so I wouldn’t pass it on. It’s running (pun intended) through Lila’s school for two weeks now and Chris came home last night with it as well. I was mild, and actually thought I might get my house kind of prepared for my brother’s arrival this Saturday. But instead I spent most of the day trying to work out computer/technical difficulties.

My Airport Express that’s only 3 weeks old went kaput after I configured Ty’s computer for wireless. It restarted itself and then I spent the rest of the day trying to get either computer to recognize the device. Several hours of phone calls to the tech support department at MacMall where I purchased all of the new equipment — where a young man named Arin or Aaron or Erin put me through my paces connecting the thing directly to my macbook via every outlet in our house, and using three different ethernet cables. He came to the conclusion that the hardware failed so I get to send it back and order another one.

I also tried hooking up my 20″ Apple cinema display to my macbook using the huge frakking adapter that cost $100 because Apple decided to stop providing ADC plugs on their macs in total disregard for the many people who spent way too much cash on their gorgeous cinema displays that have ADC plugs. Nice. And no, it didn’t work either.

So yesterday was a day of tummy aches and headaches and low productivity. I have a big bruise on my forehead and a dent in the wall. I did however, manage to get the kitchen cleaned up before I dragged myself to the evening yoga class and I’m so happy I did that — I’m sure it helped me sleep (both the clean kitchen and the hour and a half of yoga). Even if I did dream of adapters and routers and a tangle of wires at my feet.

I know all of this stuff is solvable, but I’m sick of throwing money at it and having nothing work properly. Is the universe telling me to go analog? Tempting. I’m obviously stymied by the blog right now. It’s all surface material and no depth. Sigh.

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