I spent about an hour last night bashing my head against a script that just wouldn’t work for me. People have been using it for ages, no one has complained, it’s a simple script written by a smart person so there shouldn’t be any weird bugs, etc. I just kept getting empty files. Finally, in desperation, I mailed the author of the script with a general “WTF?!?!?!” mail.

She mailed me back saying, “It worked for me.”

I tried again.

It worked. Twice.

This leads me to believe the source of all my problems lies not in the rational world of buggy scripts and intractable scientific problems, but in something more abstract and difficult to handle. I have clearly lost my mojo.

I noticed this over Christmas too, in a completely different setting. The conclusion I drew was similar, though — no more mojo. I am no longer good at things I used to be pretty damn good at. I have screwed up somewhere. Spent down my karma balance. There is bad juju all over the place here, and I really need to do something about it. My chi is confused. Maybe it’s tangled up in the cables behind my desk.

Thoughts? Suggestions? I have big plans to go back to yoga (that should take care of a few of the chi issues), but I have so little experience with converting bad juju to good that I may flail around for a while on my own before getting things together.

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