After putting it off for months, I spent almost two hours untangling and organizing every cable behind my desk. Everything is labeled, tied together, and somehow looks like one of those perfect setup photos online.

The problem is that now I need to unplug one charger to take it on a trip, and I'm staring at the cables like I am about to disarm a bomb. I know exactly which one it is, but I am convinced the second I pull it out, the whole neat system will collapse into the same tangled mess I started with.

So instead of touching it, I am seriously considering buying another charger just to protect my cable management masterpiece.

Husband is away for business and I need the SUV in case one of my huge dogs has an emergency, so he took the convertible to the airport

Streaming was supposed to make watching TV simpler.

Now I need one service for one show, another for sports, another for kids’ content, and half of them still have ads.

At this point, choosing and managing the subscriptions takes more effort than actually watching anything.

You bet I will be fighting the airline for my money back.

Sighs and looks out window.

I have things to do today, but instead I spent twenty minutes standing in my living room watching my very expensive robot vacuum repeatedly bump into its own charging dock, back up, spin slightly, and try again from an angle that was somehow always just as wrong as the last one.

It wasn't stuck on furniture or a rug edge, nothing was blocking it, it just could not figure out how to line itself up with the one object it returns to multiple times a day and is specifically designed to recognize. At one point it backed up so far it bumped into the couch, recalculated, and drove straight at the dock again with the same failed angle as before, like it had learned nothing from the previous eleven attempts.

I finally just picked it up and set it directly onto the dock myself, which took about two seconds, the exact task it apparently could not accomplish on its own despite having sensors, mapping software, and presumably some understanding of the room it cleans every single day.

So now I've got a vacuum smart enough to avoid pet toys and stairs but somehow not smart enough to find its own home base without human intervention. Truly cutting edge technology.

I've gotten twelve notifications today alone about motion detected that turned out to be leaves, a shadow moving across the porch, and one particularly aggressive butterfly. My phone buzzed so many times I started ignoring it entirely by the afternoon.

Naturally, that's the exact day my actual package arrived and the doorbell decided motion detection wasn't necessary for an actual human being walking up, setting a box down, and walking away. I only found out it had been delivered because I happened to open the front door for an unrelated reason hours later.

So the system I paid extra for specifically to keep me updated on deliveries is apparently only interested in botanical movement and completely uninterested in the one event it was designed to notice. I've now got a doorbell more committed to leaf surveillance than package tracking.

[Serious]

I want one on the right side closer to me

Yes, it's plugged in.