Saturday was, as they say, “character building” due to multiple technical difficulties. First thing, my computer wouldn’t boot up. After six or seven tries of turning it off and on at the surge protector, I finally managed to run the diagnostics. The hard drive was bad, it said; so sad. It was serious, too. I couldn’t get past the logon screen.

So I used hubby’s computer. It worked, until I tried to turn it off. It had updates to take care of, it told me, just go on ahead about your business and it will turn itself off when finished.

Liar.

I went to the grocery store and left it running. It was still updating when I returned. I left it on while I went to a fabric postcard class at Honey Bee Quilt Store . . . where my sewing machine became finicky. Lots of “nests” in the bobbin when I was trying to do some satin zig-zagging on the edge of the postcard. Afterwards, I dropped by Sew Much More they looked at my sewing machine. It worked perfectly fine for them on every single stitch they tried. Fine. I left it there for a check up anyway.

I got home after all that and hubby’s computer was still “updating.” I turned it off and on at the surge protector. I was quite relieved when it booted up properly.

Later, I managed to turn on the TV without it exploding. Things are looking up.