Wellbeing & Wine

Rather unfortunate Pinot meets laptop situ last week, dear reader.  Quelle Horreur. Suddenly my mouse took on a life of its own, randomly careering round the screen like a drunk rabbit opening and closing windows at will. I nearly inadvertently ordered brand new togs and joined an online baking community on Facebook all on drunk rabbit mode. To add to the frustration, the “e” and “n” keys also intermittently stopped working. Do you know how many words contain “e” and “n”? Only just about freaking ALL OF THEM! Litrally all of thm. Typig ay stc bcam compltly impossibl. Why couldn’t it have been the “z” and the weird brackety symbol no one uses? No such luck. Much swearing ensued, as well as quite a bit of what I believe is called, “Magical Thinking” where I googled the issue, tried drying it with a hairdryer amongst other suggestions, and eventually settled on the many fix comments of, “it magically had mended itself by the next morning!” Yes. Perfect. Magical Mending. I firmly decided this would happen to me, so I limped along for a day heroically typing sentences trying to avoid words containing e and n. Hoping for the magical fix so many had experienced. I’m sad to report the power of positive thinking did not fix my laptop. It did not magically fix itself over night. In fact, it got worse. No choice but to dial in the experts and a mere nine hundred bucks of repairs later, all is well. Now, I have been previously accused of being “too… Read more