52/102: Fails

A tiresome, tiring Sunday. My Idernet connection failed again Saturday evening, and I had to fiddle with the phone battery again to get it back. The battery took two hours to go from a 40% charge to a 51% charge, and then most of the night to get up to 100%. It is clearly on its last legs. I only hope it isn't the phone that's acting up. The battery is four years old, and has lasted twice as long as the one that came with the phone, so it most likely is the battery, though the phone itself is six years old. The scroll wheel on my computer mouse is also failing. All my technology is failing, just like me, but I have apparently not failed fast enough to avoid replacing some or all of my gadgets. Too bad.

While tech does its best to screw me, the weather is plotting to join in its depredations. All but one day in the upcoming week will have a high in the nineties, with Wednesday at 97 nudging uncomfortably close to 100. Needless to say, this is not what May is supposed to be doing. There has also been more wind than usual for the time of year. The combination of hot, dry, and windy is something that does not make a Californian comfortable. The approach of summer fills me with trepidation.

Look, I used "depredations" and "trepidation" in one paragraph. I wonder what that means? Oh, right. Nothing. It means nothing.


( Sunday Verse )