{"id":1158,"date":"2005-11-29T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2005\/11\/tales-from-the-trenches-mercur.html"},"modified":"2005-11-29T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T11:13:00","slug":"tales-from-the-trenches-mercur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2005\/11\/tales-from-the-trenches-mercur.html","title":{"rendered":"Tales from the trenches: Mercury retrograde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d share just a few fun things that have happened over the past few days:<\/p>\n<p>A document that I was waiting for from Switzerland arrived late, and the post office lost the slip for me to pick up the document with.  I went to the post office to straighten this out, and their computer crashed so they couldn&#8217;t locate the document.  Today I went to the post office when the computer was back up, whereupon they discovered that the document wasn&#8217;t where it was supposed to be and spent most of the morning looking for it.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine who lives in Germany had mailed her electric bill, but it was erroneously posted to the wrong address and her power was turned off.  Because she didn&#8217;t live in the house she didn&#8217;t know that the power was off, and wasn&#8217;t aware of various repair problems that occurred as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Today my Outloook program suddenly decided not to collect my email.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I drove 30 minutes to a neighboring town to appear as a witness in a friend&#8217;s divorce case.  I waited 2 hours in a local coffee shop, waiting to be called.  When I received no phone calls, I returned back to my office only to find a message from earlier that morning that I was needed to appear. <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s been going on in your world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d share just a few fun things that have happened over the past few days: A document that I was waiting for from Switzerland arrived late, and the post office lost the slip for me to pick up the document with. 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