Bad news: Mercury has just gone retrograde at this exact moment, so everything will go wrong from now until February 28.

from Jezebel
http://jezebel.com/mercury-in-retrograde-will-always-be-my-beat-1517752361
http://www.ismercuryinretrograde.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_retrograde_motion#Apparent_motion