So after work, I got to go help deal with Yahoo No. 1's car not starting. Yes, again. The clutch interlock switch I replaced was suspicious at the time, after I had to force it into the bracket. (This lets the car start only when the clutch pedal is all the way down so you can't turn it over in gear.) I ended up clipping the wires & bypassing it, but the damn starter still wouldn't click over. Just sat there. We roll-started it to get it back to his apt., then after he shut it off, it would start right up. I suspect he has some kind of cold-induced electrical failure, and when we roll-started the car, it warmed up enough to not have the problem. Stoopid cars.

That's after a long morning babysitting the Two Stooges of Bangalore as they remoted in to my work PC to debug a problem with the completely nonfunctional crap they had previously delivered. Nope. No solution, despite 2 hours of aimless poking around at every conceivable part of the system.

That's after postponing the same session from last night at 8pm (my time, 1pm in India), which I was completely ready to handle. But no, the guy called as scheduled only to put it off to 8am today, which would have been the middle of the night were he was, I guess. WTF? In the process of taking his call, my bluetooth Borg earpiece suddenly started beeping in a stupid way (after I had charged it fully in preparation for the call) and the phone began flashing and foaming at the mouth. In the middle trying to deal with that, a call from Ivy came up. I asked her if I could call back later, and she said, "Yeah, whatever. YOU called ME!!" Apparently I had somehow triggered the last-number redial while panicking over the phone's panic attack.

And why was Ivy's number the last one I had dialed? Other than because I like to talk to her, I called to check on the lack of email -- MOST unusual -- since before 9am. Turned out that she'd sent some, as I expected, but Verizon was apparently eating them. Again. This happens fairly routinely. But no, this time MY hosting service was the stoopid one. I filed a support ticket, and this morning I got the happy news that they'd wonked up config on a system upgrade, but it was all fixed now. Sure it was. I now have four copies of everything sent to me by anyone yesterday, and they're getting multiples of what I sent, according to reports. I guess the ISP is erring on the side of caution and making sure that everybody gets their precious email. Coulda done without the duplicates of the cranky emails from the once-wife, though. I really could.

So megaFAIL across the technology spectrum for today.