Could it be ...demonic possession along with the Star Wars Contrabassoons


5.7 hard won hours of sleep.

We will not discuss from when to when.

It's either feast or famine, both as far as sleep and writing.

Still feeling virtuous that I got all my assigned grant applications reviewed Sunday night. Accessibility WAY better than last year.

My reward for such intrepid technological adventures: today I spent TWO HOURS trying to file a simple needed form and trying all the things the nice text presence told me to do. Thankfully I have eyes, blurry eyes but eyes enough not even to interact about screen reader navigation with the chat even though I certainly did with the online form, the form that resolutely did not have either visually or certainly not detectable by screen reader the fields nice presence was telling me to look for. 

Finally when text presence threw up her hands and said there is nothing she can do, I threw a fit and asked her to forward the problem to her supervisor with specific instructions for what I want the supervisor to do, namely forward it to a techie. Will it happen? Stay tuned.

The demonic possession: part way through Windows wanted to send me off to XBOX land where I have NO interest in being.

Happy Monday.

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