How is this good karma???

OK, so this morning there were two stories on NPR that caught my attention, both were fairly momentous. The first was Fidel Castro's resignation as President, Commander-in-Chief, Lord High Emporer, or whatever the heck he is, of Cuba. Now, Castro has been the political leader of Cuba literally all my life, so this was a biggie. The second story marked the 40th anniversary of the first Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood show on PBS. While technically I was 10 months and 10 days when it premiered, again, Mr. Rogers has been around (even from the grave!) my entire life.

I avoided the Cuba story; too much politics, too serious, and I never much cared for Castro, anyway. Instead, I blogged about Mr. Rogers, who I love. I mean, Mr. Rogers is NICE! He's sweet and gentle!! The man wore cardigans, that his mother knitted no less, every day for DECADES! You'd think I'd've filled up the Good Karma bank by going with Mr. Rogers!

Well, instead, I had one of the more suckier days in my life. Nothing major, just lots of little things: I spent the day trying to get my application server to do what I want when it runs out of memory, but it wouldn't. And, sadly, I knew it wasn't doing what I wanted because I kept forcing it to run out of memory, which is tedious and boring. I had to listen to others pretend they're something they're not, and take credit for stuff I do. And, sadly, I was not in a position to call them on it. I bought myself dinner from my favorite natural grocery store, and the biscuit in my veggie pot pie was stale.

But the topper came when I got home with my (disappointing) dinner. Grace had a basketball game at 6:30, so by the time it was over and I was home, it was about 7:40. Just a few minutes into House Hunters, my new television addiction! So I plop on the couch, switch on the TV, turn to channel 76....

And I don't HAVE a channel 76 anymore!!! What's up with that!?!?!? Where the heck did my HGTV go?

Channel 52, as it turns out. But it took me 15 minutes of poking around on the Time Warner website to find that.

I WANT MY GOOD KARMA, DANG IT! (ooh, whining doesn't help fill up the Karma Bank, does it?)