What a day! It began early when I returned to bed from the water closet for a few more minutes of shut-eye. Beeeep. What was that? (You know what it was.) After 30 seconds or so. Beeeep. Lather rinse repeat. At least it wasn’t SCREEEEECHING! I checked my Nest app. All was well. Alas, we also have non-Nest smoke alarms. It turned out to be intermittent so we endured it until we returned from dropping off Mooon Yooonit at 7:15 AM, then the GG scurried around changing batteries like mad. I have said this before but I’ll say it again. I will never understand why we need to have FOUR smoke alarms within a six-foot radius. Yeah they are in different rooms but you can’t tell which one is beeping. Rules be stoopid sometimes.

Then I had to deal with my broken token. Man oh man, what a big mess. I won’t try to detail this ordeal. The high-level overview is my VPN app expired and due to VERY confusing emailed instructions for how to replace it, I deleted it before I installed the replacement app. Bad thing. So. I couldn’t get to the support folks on my laptop. Instead I would get to a page saying, “You are not logged in.” Yeah, I knooooow.

I resorted to filing a ticket by phone. It took something like six tries to process all of the instructions for just getting into the phone queue for a callback but I FINALLY did it. What I didn’t do was disable the setting (on my personal phone) that silences all incoming calls from unknown numbers. So I missed the callback and then went through all kinds of search gyrations to try to figger out if my employer had an office in Podunkville, Lower Slobbovia. I never totally figgered that out but I finally sucked it up and turned off the phone setting. A while later I received another incoming call from that same number and a lovely tech support woman took over my screen and totally sorted me out, then thanked me for “all I do for the company”.

This was all going on while I was in meetings and/or I/Ming with various people via Teams (and picking up Mooon Yooonit). I was taaaared by the end of the day and I am now celebrating that end by having a ‘hattan with the Twinz of Terror (the UU is visiting). I am in the Landfill Chitchen writing my blahg and they are in the GG’s lair talking MAGA and economics and surfing the internet. Hundreds of Beavers anyone? And now guns.

And now mouse is here and the shouting is over.

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