The Stone Days and the Diamond Days

A matched set: My favorite glasses and my new Lenovo laptop. The fingerprints are free.

Some days, as the old boy once said, it just don't pay to get out of bed. Thursday, with one exception, was one of those days when the unexpected turned into a mad lion.

My Day from Hell finally finished itself off last night when I got a text from my credit card company telling me, in effect, to call 'cause I'd been hacked.

That leaves me without that credit card as I prepare to go to the beach. The bad charge was minor ($15, a fishing expedition to see if it would go through) and it was even refused by the card company. Killing the card might be hypervigilance, but if I were issuing credit cards these days, I'd be damn hypervigilant. 

The rest of the day was epic: 

• Three laptop motherboards croaked, 
• My new GPS wouldn't charge, 
• I had legendary password problems, 
• I had to set up a new computer (ugh!), 
• I had to visit the guys at the Geek Squad three times, 
• I briefly lost my novel (talk about a momentary terror, but it's backed up in four places), 
• I had reason to worry about somebody close (I won't get into that). 

BUT, there was a silver lining or two. After reading my query a publisher quickly got back to me, wanting to read and evaluate my new novel, NEWS!, a good sign, especially since that publisher had only had the book for two days.

I bought a new Lenovo laptop computer and set it up (balancing the earlier problems). It is dark blue and matches my favorite glasses. And it works. Like really works.

Finally, I got my required hour's exercise and wound up getting more done in a day than even I have any right to expect. 

Some days are diamonds, some days are stones. I had both yesterday.