SMEF = Simultaneous Massive Existence Failure. Coping with loss of friend who has just passed on after extraordinary and brutal battle with ovarian then liver then bone then bowel cancer; and loss of HDD on a new 'pooter - hardly seems important but it is as well.

Interesting how things conspire to alter ones perception of what is important, what really matters and who gives a floop anyways. Interesting what brings into sharp focus the inanities people obsess over when there are bigger issues at stake that get ignored.

On a down, one assumes there is an up, I need to find it soon.

thumbulate : 1. (v.) To push harder on a button in hopes that that will revive a remote with clearly dead batteries. 2. (v.) To lean forward while pressing the buttons on the remote hoping that the extra inch will make the remote control work better. Also: thumbulation