Sometimes you get out of bed and the universe has clearly decided that today isn’t going to be your day.
I had one of those last week where my home WiFi decided to just give up, my laptop randomly crashed while I was trying to tidy up spilled coffee, and all the while a neighbor was using a jackhammer for hours to tear out a driveway.
I did my best to muscle through and not let the universe defeat me, but boy, did that day just plain s**k.
I just had to s**k it up, order a new router for next-day delivery, and brute force my way through the work day by constantly turning the flakey router off and then on again.
There came a point where I refused to be defeated by whatever force out there was trying to prank me.
I got through the work day without sacrificing too much productivity to the WiFi gods, crossed a few chores off the to-do list, and then treated myself to a takeout for dinner.
This isn’t to say that on another day I wouldn’t have thrown in the towel, called in sick, and gone right back to bed.
Seriously, if it weren’t for the jackhammer making a nap impossible, I may have given into that impulse.
I mean, the day could have gone a whole lot worse.
At least I had my phone connection as a last resort if the router completely died and my laptop was just a random crash. Nothing seems to have been affected by it.
So it was just a sucky day and not an overly expensive one — save for the new router, which is now installed and working great! Yay!
Last Updated on June 25, 2020 by Amy Pilkington