I cannot tech today.
I who work in a technology based industry have been in relative fail mode for anything that has a power button today.
The overhead projector and instructor PC in the training room are in an apparent lover’s snit and do not want to talk each other. I check the wires, display format etc. nothing. Of course I discover this minutes before a class is set to start.
Fine ain’t got time for dat as the saying goes. We’ll do this the ol’ fashioned way and use the still active portable projector like I used to do not too long ago. It’s not as pretty or as high-tech as the overhead, but it will get the job done right? Right. Wrong. Keystone. Horizontal and Vertical settings. Zoom, only showing one monitor. It’s not happening. Oh come the freak on already! All this futzing around is still happening at 10:15 for a class that was supposed to start at 9:30. I look at my students admit tech failure and start to talk talk them through the training. I speak a lot as it takes longer to describe a concept where a simple click of the mouse to show them all at once would have worked miracles, but we get through it.
I come back to my desk and accidentally kick something, that hits something, that pulls the plug on one of my monitors. Greeeeeeaaat! Follow the affected line down through the spaghetti of cords under my desk and get it all plugged up, only to realize I have now pulled out my mouse in the process and back into the spaghetti I go.
A run to Starbucks struck me as a right fine idea, by then. Well, that my colleague leaving me a note, putting the bug in my ear (a really creepy crawly action if taken literally I must say). So I grab my phone with my Starbucks app, insure I have my cardkey to get back in the building, take my sunglasses and head out for some much needed refreshment.
So, do you want to guess who got in line at Starbucks, got all the way to the front of the line, was one measly person away from placing an order when she pulled out her phone and realized the damned thing was as dead as a door nail? No really, guess who! Hint: It’s the same person who did not have a dime on her otherwise. The same person who could not use her Starbucks card instead because it was in her wallet. The same person who left her wallet at her desk, because why would I need my wallet when I have my Starbucks app on my trustee phone? Uh huh.
Silver lining? Yes, there is one. I made it back into the office building Starbucks-less, but just before it started to to pour outside (good thing I had my shades with me, huh?). Also, this computer has not done anything else untoward since I started typing. Yay, the tides are turning…
But I’m not touching any light switches with my bare hands for the rest of the day, just in case…
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Raivenne-lations 
Khhhaaaaaan! His momma said there’d be days like this, too! When I was exploding light bulbs left and right during that spell that I was upset, I got the advice to ground myself, literally and figuratively. Yours seems less electric in nature, but possibly still energy-driven, so maybe getting your toes in the soil and meditating might be a good thought? Or since it’s pouring, go play with someone’s Zen desk sand garden? The video on New Horizons I posted today might assist a redirect, too.
Oh my, it’s amazing that you’re able to muster up some humor about your situation. I think this should have been the time for someone behind you in line to pay it forward.
Love this. Technology is great when it is working. Personally, I think you need something a bit stronger than a Starbucks.