Modern life comes with a clutter of frustrations unimaginable to our ancestors. Recently, my laptop was having problems. The young man in the repair shop discovered that I was years behind on my updates, and after about four hours, he had added the updates and fixed the problem. He even cleaned the keyboard and screen, making the machine look new again. So I returned home, acquainted myself with some of the changes he had made, and went to bed a happy man. Then came early morning, and every document on the computer now sported a black background and white text. Ugh. I messed around online, discovered the meaning of “dark mode,” and realized what had happened. So that story had a happy ending. But we all experience frustration. We head out the front door to drive to work and find the left front tire of the car to be as …