Mercury Retrograde

In the last two weeks my fieldwork laptop got stolen, my colleagues in the field didn't manage to connect to my dataloggers to download my data, and a major design flaw was discovered in our still not working heating system in the old house. I had been warned by somebody less astrologically-challenged than myself that we were in a period of Mercury retrograde. Now I wish I had taken good note of her words and spent more time in bed whilst everything collapsed around me anyway. I hope now that mercury moves forward again I will too.