those technology gremlins

First day of class this morning, Composition II. The automatic door timers locks don't unlock the classroom and I must scurry off to find someone with a passkey. Barely get into the room before the official start time...there goes my plans to have all the necessary windows open on the teacher's station computer ahead of time so I can casually circulate while students are trickling in. The sound system won't work, mucking up the effectiveness of the youtube video we were going to use as a writing prompt. Blogger's website is down, making it impossible to set up our class blogs, per my plans. Thank the stars for chalk, back-up plans, and the fact that most students still carry around pens.