In the past few days, my aging Volvo wagon had engine trouble (to fix or nor to fix) and my not so new desktop refused to come back to life after being checked for a memory upgrade.
Of the two, the car is the main headache, right in the middle of the holiday season. I relied so far on the car rental option while I decide if I should buy a new, smaller, fuel efficient vehicle.
As I tried not to get bogged down by these annoyances and keep my sense of perspective, I remembered what a business executive who had accidentally torn his good suit prior to a presentation told me: Things can be replaced, people cannot.