Not having the best of luck lately. What is it with me and faulty technology?
Yesterday, after getting home from work and settling in for the evening, I tried logging onto the internet only to be met with that super-annoying error message. I am (admittedly) inept when it comes to electronics. All I see are little black boxes, a multitude of cords, flashing lights and buttons galore. With this in mind, imagine me trying anything and everything - plugging, unplugging, pressing power buttons - to reboot the modem. I had no idea what I was doing and all efforts were futile.
The Hubs gets home from work and before he can even put his bag down and receive a hug and a kiss from me, I'm reporting that "Something is wrong with the internet. Can you please fix it?" (I'm totally embarrassed admitting this) So he does what he can, only to announce that the modem has croaked.
This declaration is met with slight lunacy on my part and withdrawal-like symptoms followed: anger, irritation, annoyance. And then shame. Once my tantrum has run its course, I have a moment of clarity: I realize that I really don't like what my reliance on the internet has made me become. I needed to get it together.
Fortunately, I came to my senses and survived a night without internet. I brought the modem to our cable company this morning and all is well in the internet world again.
Somebody please tell me I am not alone in this.
I get so completely annoyed too. My husband must be annoyed by me because of this fact. He's a complete computer nerd so I leave all of that up to him to handle. Work gave me a wireless-anywhere card so whenever we have internet problems I just pop that in. Sometimes I just wish I had an excuse for the internet to not work!
ReplyDeleteoh you are not alone, i really don't understand technology and because of that it can send me into a tizzy at times. how true that sometimes we've just gotta take a break from the internet and know it will be there when we get back. its not the end of things {although it sure feels like it sometimes} glad you're up and running again ;)
ReplyDeleteNot alone by a long shot. I get that error sign frequently too. Since computers are my husbands life, I rely on him to fix everything too.
ReplyDeleteI will just add that when that sign pops up....most of the time, it's just the server that's down.
I'm so 50/50 on this subject. I have a love/hate relationship with technology, but if I gave it up...well....I never would have met you and all the other amazing friends on blog land.
tonya: ooh, that wireless anywhere card sounds pretty cool! I think it's harder for us because of where we live; the hills make reception pretty spotty.
ReplyDeleteAnd I spend waaaaayyy too much time on the computer, so I totally understand the wish for an excuse to be OFFline. 'Just too hard to actually follow through. ;)
bex: you are so right. The thing is, Phil & I had such a lovely evening together since neither of us were on the computer. We made dinner together and talked for hours (and actually commented to one another how nice it was to actually "disconnect"!).
Susan: Oh, sister. Love/Hate relationship with technology? I could not agree with you more. I have resisted technology all my life (it took me forever to switch from film to digital on my camera, and even longer to actually get into this "blogging" thing). But now I think I spend waaaay to much time online. And ditto on meeting new people over the internet! :)