It is one of those days. My email server is down, the hardware wont work that I have just got fixed, my car that is supposed to be ready is not, the battery is flat. It seems like a total hardware failure day. My Blog desk software has been wiped in an upgrade. My messages wont send.

I can feel my blood pressure rise even though Im not supposed to and some rather unhealthy language is coming from my corrupt hardware between my ears. I have wasted an hour.

Suddenly for no other reason than I walked away, my messages have been sent and my computer is working again perfectly like nothing ever was wrong. I think it just got confused with the amount of times I closed it down, restarted it, open and closed outlook. It didnt know if it was coming or going.

I can laugh at the absurdity of the situation. My impatience has allowed the invoices to be sent, I have a back up Blog on my laptop and all is again right in my technology world.

While walking away I made some phone calls to some other parts of my world that needed fixing, the card that didnt arrive, the appointment someone didnt keep. It was easy once I got through the help desk.

My point is that we can survive without technology. Our expectation centre in our brain often tells us we cant. We get stressed and frustrated when it doesnt work. We risk blowing our own hardware up either having a stroke or a heart attack. We risk ringing up the poor compter guy who has just fixed our PC to blame him for the fault.

Im sure I just pressed too many buttons my computer couldn’t keep up. Maybe I have caught too many planes, taxis and ferries. My own hardware may need a change or a rest. I checked that, and its OK, plenty of surfing, fishing and family time. It was more a software error. I had been telling myself it was someone elses fault.

It was not my situation that was stressful but my view of that was. I had not wasted an hour, all is well, things are working and I can get my next presentation emailed. Now only of this Blog will post!