mishap list

Horoscope today from the SMH Good Weekend:

"Bloody Mercury's gone on the blink again, so expect a month of frustrated endeavours and electrical mishaps."

Mishap list so far:

• old fridge carked it (but of course that was weeks ago)
• DVD player is misbehaving (plays a disc for about a second, then says "Stop" and turns itself off)
• CD player started imitating DVD player (caught and skipped at minute 1:35, but then behaved itself when I cleaned and thoroughly dried the CD)
• dropped tv remote on the floor, the cover of the battery compartment came off and one battery popped slightly out, I put it back in but now the remote has forgotten the code for my tv and won't work. I have the code to reprogram it, but it's in the filing cabinet whose drawers I can't open because the bookcases are in front of it, because I had to move them to get the old fridge out and the new fridge in.

That will bring us back to - d'oh!