Not working means try again

I started using computers in 1965 as part of my graduate school.  I have rarely had reason to wish the machines were faster.  I realize if I had some deeply complex task or some enormous amount of data to churn through, I might wish for more speed.  But lately, living where I do, I have been finding that services and tasks fairly often don't work, especially in the early morning.  I have gotten so that when something doesn't work, I try again.  Sometimes after three or four attempts taking the same steps, I have success. I realize that something might not be turned on somewhere along the line.  If I took a failure to mean an impossibility, I would have quite a few more complaints.