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When one thing goes awry, everything goes awry.

At least that’s how it feels today. It’s seven-something Monday evening and technology does not want to cooperate.

Excuse me, it’s almost deadline day. Work with me.

I cannot accurately describe what I would like to do to this old and worn out MacBook, but patting the computer next to the keypad and coaxing her (yes, my laptop is a her ... and appropriately named Cordelia) is a huge fail. Actually, it’s showing me just how temperamental she has become.

Of course, she’s old. In computer years, she is six, which has to translate to at...