Bright side

I had a rather unfortunate pinot meets laptop sitch last week. Suddenly my mouse took on a life of its own, randomly careering round the screen like a drunk rabbit, opening and closing windows at will. I nearly inadvertently ordered brand new togs and joined an online baking community on Facebook — all on drunk rabbit mode. To add to the frustration, the “e” and “n” keys also intermittently stopped working. Do you know how many words contain “e” an “n”? Only just about ALL OF THEM! Litrlly all of thm. Typig ay sntnc bcam compltly impossibl. Why couldn’t it have been the “z” and the weird brackety symbol no one uses? No such luck.

Much swearing ensued, as well as quite a bit of what I believe is called “magical thinking”. After I googled the issue and tried drying the mouse with a hairdryer, among other suggestions, I eventually decided to follow the advice of those who claimed “it had magically mended itself by the next morning!” Yes. Perfect. Magical mending. I firmly decided this would happen to me, so I limped along for a day heroically typing sentences while trying to avoid words containing e and n, and hoping for the magical fix so many had experienced.

I’m sad to report that the power of positive thinking did not magically fix my laptop overnight. In fact it got worse. There was no choice but to dial in the experts, and a mere nine hundred bucks of repairs later, all is well.

Now I have been previously accused of being “too positive”, of trying to persuade people to live in “chirpy La La Land” (awesome — who wouldn’t want to live there? Better that than MiseryGuts Land, no?) and, my personal favourite insult (which is incidentally the best compliment ever), of being “a feelgooderymonger” (how fantastic is