Just sat down to blog.. and the wireless wasn’t working.. of course not.. Mercury is in retrograde.. whatever that means.. Actually , those astrologically or astronomical aware readers will know that we are just leaving the periond in which mercury’s and earth’s orbits do this little do-see-doh.. and mercury appears to stall and then travel backwards across the ecliptic..   The key word is ‘appears’.. nothing crazy is happening in space.. it’s just from our vantage point things look kind of wacky.. it’s like car wheels appearing to go backwards when you look at them through a fence..    That sounds pretty cool.. no ?

the trouble is, the period of retrograde has a terrible reputation for things not working.. Communications, computers. machines, cars, relationships, finance.. everything..

now.. I’m a scientist.. and there’s no way in the world that an optical illusion around the position of a small sun blasted rock several light minutes away could have anything to do with how my electronics are function here on earth… but.. Evidence over the past few days is trying to get me to believe otherwise..

In the past two weeks i’ve had problems with our house wireless, our  printer, dines  iPhone , my new iPhone, several USB cables, the down stairs wifi dongle, a tesla coil, a theremin.. the Amazon echo, my weather station, my smart things setup, several tile tags…

maybe mercury in retrograde is just bad for IoT ?

Anyway.. i note on the calendar that we are just leaving retrograde.. I give all my electronics permission to start working together again..

can’t we all just get along ?

nite all, nite sam

-me