Too Many Gadgets

I get annoyed with something, and then I go “I’ll buy/build this gadget, and that will make me less annoyed”. Which is true — I’ll be using the gadget for a while and almost every time I use it I’ll think “well, this really fixed that annoyance”. Success! But then the gadget invariably breaks down, and I have to fix it. And when you are so easily annoyed as I am; i.e., you have as many gadgets as I have, it seems to happen almost constantly. Like this week — I had some electricians in to get some more juice in, and also replace some ancient downlights, and fix some issues, and etc etc. Which means taking the electricity for the apartment, and then flipping it on and off again a few times at random. So I’m careful to switch all my actual computers off for real before they arrive, but I forget about some gadgets — like this box I have in the kitchen that plays music for me. So after the electricians left, the screen was semi-dead, and after rebooting, the screen was totally dead. *sigh*…