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Gremlins and vexation of spirit
They said it might rain so I took my rain cape to pilates and because it doesn't fit over the backpack I used my purse. Wallet, change purse, phone, glasses, keys... keys? Keys, where are you? In the dish on the table but those are my two spare sets, where's the set I had Monday? Forget now where I found it- not my jacket pocket, somewhere unintuitive- and off I go. Check watch for time. Watch has stopped. New battery watches should not stop. Reset by phone and get to pilates on time.
Come back from pilates and shopping, collapse on couch, drink Pepsi, do acrostics, get up to go upstairs which means get phone from purse. Transfer everything back to backpack because I'm only too likely to forget to do it tomorrow. Wallet, change purse, glasses, keys... keys? Keys, where are you-- because I left the door on the latch as I always do and didn't use my keys to get in. Look very thoroughly in all the pockets of my purse, because my bags have black holes in them, then look very thoroughly in all the pockets of the backpack, then look in coat pockets. Monday's keys are nowhere to be found. A nuisance, because I want to give a spare key to the two people who may be chauffeuring me around and now I can't.
Find box for watch that has watch specs written in teeny tiny letters, because I want to be sure it's a battery watch I have, not a self-winder. Take it upstairs to read in the bedroom trilight. Does not have specs. Tells you to go to the webpage and enter watch name on back. OK Timex indiglo, here's the link to the manual, click it and... nothing. Link doesn't work. OK Google. Google says it's a battery watch so no idea why it stopped, but it still seems to be keeping time so maybe Ok. Check time on phone. Phone has the ominous grey screen of either exhausted battery or incipient death. Do the 'press both buttons until you despair' routine. Nothing. Put it on the charger which will occasionally tell you that it's at 15%. Nothing. Looks like it's really kaput this time, just when I'd been thinking how well it was behaving and maybe I don't have to buy a new one after all. Such thoughts are dangerous, as here we see.
I have my own gin and tonic (and put on a kilo overnight because of same) but I really want to go next door and drink my brother's gin and have people say 'There there' at me. Shall have to say it to myself instead.
Come back from pilates and shopping, collapse on couch, drink Pepsi, do acrostics, get up to go upstairs which means get phone from purse. Transfer everything back to backpack because I'm only too likely to forget to do it tomorrow. Wallet, change purse, glasses, keys... keys? Keys, where are you-- because I left the door on the latch as I always do and didn't use my keys to get in. Look very thoroughly in all the pockets of my purse, because my bags have black holes in them, then look very thoroughly in all the pockets of the backpack, then look in coat pockets. Monday's keys are nowhere to be found. A nuisance, because I want to give a spare key to the two people who may be chauffeuring me around and now I can't.
Find box for watch that has watch specs written in teeny tiny letters, because I want to be sure it's a battery watch I have, not a self-winder. Take it upstairs to read in the bedroom trilight. Does not have specs. Tells you to go to the webpage and enter watch name on back. OK Timex indiglo, here's the link to the manual, click it and... nothing. Link doesn't work. OK Google. Google says it's a battery watch so no idea why it stopped, but it still seems to be keeping time so maybe Ok. Check time on phone. Phone has the ominous grey screen of either exhausted battery or incipient death. Do the 'press both buttons until you despair' routine. Nothing. Put it on the charger which will occasionally tell you that it's at 15%. Nothing. Looks like it's really kaput this time, just when I'd been thinking how well it was behaving and maybe I don't have to buy a new one after all. Such thoughts are dangerous, as here we see.
I have my own gin and tonic (and put on a kilo overnight because of same) but I really want to go next door and drink my brother's gin and have people say 'There there' at me. Shall have to say it to myself instead.