Dateline 4-26-2017

Today was my second day of jury duty and now that I'm an official juror I'm going to hold off on talking about anything thing to do with my experience whether it has to do with the case or not to play it safe until the case is over. All I'm going to say about today is that mornings still suck, people take weird notes, and of course, I ended up on the case that's run long both the days to where it feel like a ghost town when we're finally released.

Though I'm trying my hardest to avoid blaming my shitty life on horrible luck, the evidence seems to keep piling up to the point where it seems that there are external forces involved. Actually, I don't really believe in external forces that interact with us but I would feel vindicated if it turns out to be true.

Not only did I end up on a case that seems to be struggling with its scheduling, to the point where we keep being reassured that this is not usual, but last night my computer not only froze but crashed on me, literally, as I hit the button to save and publish it.

Sure, my internet freezes all the time and when it happens during the publishing process, I often will lose all of my work. This is why I have my backup copy that I use to run through my secondary spellchecker to catch as many of my mistakes as I can. The only problem is, this time, not only did my internet freeze but I had to reboot my computer to do anything.

The problem is that since my entire computer froze, I couldn't save the spellcheck copy which I don't always do right away, so I had to hope that my computer would have saved auto saved it to be recovered following the impromptu restart.

It felt like it took a little longer than usual to get the computer back up and running and of course, the recovery draft wasn't there even though the was a recovery draft of a completely different document that I had already used and only needed the copy for my files.

Normally, this would get me to lose my shit but recover rather quickly as there's nothing to do but restart but this time I felt defeated to the point where I almost gave up for the day. I mean, I already had an extra-long day down at the courthouse. Then I rushed home and knocked out a Daily Breaker that I pretty proud of and moved on to spend two hours on my SNL review that I was also proud of that had just completely disappeared.

Where I was on a pace to be done and in bed by 11:00 o'clock in the PM. It took me until at least 10:30 in the PM to settle myself enough to restart. Yes, I did manage to get everything done before midnight, it then took me an extra hour to get to sleep. So, where I totally sticking to a packed schedule that would allow me to get enough sleep to do it again, I'm not an exhausted mess who has at least three more hours of work ahead of him.

Now I'm moving on to watch my next Saturday Night Live, and don't really look forward to sharing my extra rushed thoughts so I can do this all again tomorrow when I will check in with my next Daily Breaker.

Talk to you then,

The Wicker Breaker