Skloot, the former budget whiz kid, is now befuddled by figures. He switches digits on his daughter's address and misreads credit-card numbers. One time he tried to program his agent's phone number into his speed dial and instead got a garbage collection service. I still can't figure out how to build a fire in our wood stove, although my wife has shown me repeatedly. And I was a very bright man.
Life is an uncertain road of ups and downs.
I've been coming out of that the last couple of months. There doesn't seem to be anything I can identify that either triggers it or stops it. That changes things.