Most of us are aware of the dangers of too much technology in our lives and our becoming dependent on our little gadgets. Many say we are spending too much time online and too little in the real world. Well, I think this only applies when all is well and we have that technology at the tip of our fingers. When something is not working it’s a totally different ball game.
Can you really enjoy a night out when the damn phone in your pocket is not working and it might be broken? Can you relax and watch a movie when your Internet connection is down and God knows when or how you can fix it?
I ran into this problem this morning when I said I’ll just log in for a couple of minutes to sell some drugs and then go about my schedule. But then how can you even think of getting lunch ready when you get the blue screen? Not quite the terrible blue screen of death, but still an error that sent my laptop into repeated restarts. The problem first manifested itself last night and sort of ruined the experience of watching a movie and it took a lot of voodoo to get to the end. I chose to believe it’s something to do with the torrent, happened before, but no, it was more than that.
Obviously I went into panic mode, searching for solutions on the phone while the damn laptop kept going into the blue screen thingy. I have no technical knowledge, but some said you should update some drivers. I don’t really care what a driver is or does, but at least I can click update. Then I just sat there staring at the screen, watching the little circle that said ‘installing’ while the clock was ticking. You cannot expect someone to go about lunch under the circumstances, you have to be there and see if your gadget makes it.
It’s not the first time that some technical malfunction takes precedence over everything else. Christmas was mostly ruined as we spent all day trying to find a solution to make my son’s brand new game work on the bloody console. (One of those stupid Nintendo games that are area-coded and it only worked for the US). When the wi-fi box was acting up I used to spend hours unplugging it and resetting and stuff.
Don’t even ask about my boy’s computer having trouble connecting to the Internet. You just have to drop everything and see to it, in my case feeling like an idiot in the process, because really what sort of parent cannot fix a simple problem?
I think our online personas and lives have become so important having any sort of technological problem is worse than being ill. A terrible headache or the flu, terribly inconvenient but you can still go about your business. Take an aspirin and you’ll be fine. But the computer or the phone, you simply have to fix them. Now. The rest of the world can go to Hell in the meantime!
Oh, I somehow managed to get lunch ready almost in time… and so far the computer seems to be working! Fingers crossed!
If you did read this than your little gadgets must be working properly!
