When I arrived at work on Wednesday, there were 3 notes that were still waiting to be saved to the server. I put in a work ticket, and went to my group. IT support called me while I was at group, and said to call back. I did. There was nothing they could do to save those notes, and they deleted one that was nothing but blank space in the computer. So, I had to redo those notes. I was distressed enough about having this problem that when I arrived on my pod to do the group, one of the security officers asked me what was wrong. I just told him I was in a bad mood and did not want it to interfere with interactions with others. He said he could tell by looking at me.
But, while I was at group, the electronic gremlins haunted me. I have an old cassette and CD player at work, and I use an old cassette for Relaxation Breathing and Progressive Muscle Relaxation instruction, which was what was on the agenda today. Well, the tape started off sounding really slow, so I rewound it, and it got better but close to the end of the lesson, started slowing down again.
Then, I tried to play some CDs. The group picked one I had not played before, and it would spin, but not play, and it would not let me program the player. So, I tried a CD that I had just played the day before in group, and it would not work. We still had about 30 minutes left, so I was doing to call some coworkers to see if someone could rescue me with a CD player. As I picked up my equipment to leave the room, I realized the plug into the CD player was not well seated (although I had checked that when I first started having trouble with the cassette.) So, I put it in correctly, low and behold, chased away the electronic gremlins!
I have to tell you the day got better after that.
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