A fruitless endeavour in which I tried to draw a picture and ended up buried in cords

So, the storm knocked out my internet, but not my power. Thus, I decided to do something offline, doing a digital painting I've been wanting to do. But! Technology hates me. Here's why:

- Plug in drawing tablet. Pen suddenly doesn't work. It worked fine last week.
-Restart computer. Pen works, but isn't responding to pressure settings, which is basically the whole point of having a pen tablet.
- Restart again. Still nothing. Tablet control program doesn't think the tablet exists. Check website on phone because internet is out. Website suggests uninstalling and reinstalling the driver.
- Uninstall works fine, but there's still no internet, so I can't download the driver.
- Idea! Download the driver to my phone, then plug my phone into my computer and transfer the file.
- Phone has trouble figuring out it's connected and I have to navigate a bunch of menus to find the setting to grant permission to my computer to access the files.
- File transfer finally works, and driver gets installed.
- Restart computer again.
- "Driver is not running." Argh.
- Plug in tablet. It installs a separate, secret driver somehow. This takes quite a few minutes.
- Open tablet control program. "Tablet not responding. Restart your computer." Restart again.
- Still doesn't work. I give up.


And all this time, I have my headphones plugged in to my phone, playing pirate songs on spotify to relax (again, because no internet), making a huge tangled mess of headphone cable from head to phone, a USB cable from phone to computer, the tablet in my lap with a cord going to the computer. My whole body is just tangled in cords because I wanted to draw a picture, and I can't even do that.

Technology sucks.