Reboot, Rejuvenate, Resurrect

TIME 5:05 AM – a tiny sliver of a matchstick embeds itself in the pad of my right thumb. I am a bit of a pragmatist; I had two choices for quick removal; use the nails of the left hand to remove it or find tweezers to pluck it out. My fingernails were right there. At 5:10, I concluded that I had chosen incorrectly. As I stood to look for tweezers, I spied a small safety pin lying on the end table. “This should do the job” I thought. 5:17 – I had successfully extracted nothing