Technology, you wonderful gift to today’s society in the form of constant frustration, headaches, and for giving us the exact reason we need to jump from the cliff but those are just reasons to start this blog. While I have marveled in how far you’ve gone (grown) over the years, I am also still amazed at just have far you’ve regressed too.
In a world where my cell phone can complete more tasks than the average human can (although I suspect many a’ child can outperform the vast majority of adults) why is it that we can’t have fail proof technology?
For example, last week while I slept peacefully and dreamt of days of old (days prior to hunny-do lists, any work responsibility, and when my priorities were juvenile at best), I was awoken by an unhappy pregnant lady (that’d be my wife and not some “Goldilocks” who wanted to test the porridge) because of an over-active smoke alarm.
The smoke alarm must have needed some additional attention and coddling this night because it set itself out to be annoying in the way that only smoke alarms can, by constantly chirping. This chirping, not unlike crying babies (so I’ve heard), may very well be the most horrible sound in the world at that exact hour when sleep finally finds you. So as I stumbled from my bed (half dazed due to copious amounts of Tylenol PM to drown out the snoring from three annoying dogs and perhaps one pregnant lady) I proceeded to climb a ladder, which I must ensure that I explain to my wife how dangerous this act is and therefore I must be rewarded for such a brave act, and tear the little beast from the ceiling. Although I don’t think I can complete these same steps with a baby but I guess we’ll see when that test arrives this winter. I think I must heed the advice I’ve seen somewhere about testing smoke detectors and changing batteries to avoid such situations.
As a side note, why does technology seem to fail when you need it to work the most? Luckily, this piece of “technology” didn’t fail at a time when it was most needed (fire or when I cook and proceed to burn everything) but seriously why must fail at the most inopportune times?
Then, for those who sit idly by and await my every word and posting, my laptop craps out on me this weekend which only helped cause the delays in which postings get posted (how many times can I use “post” in this post?).
Seriously, why do we spend so much money on technology when it only seems to last for a few short years and is constantly bypassed by the latest and greatest? This weekend, I found myself staring into that black hole abyss also known as the Blue Screen of Death that is so dreaded by mankind who’ve become so dependent on technology to fill every void in our lives. I find that the computer repairs needed would surpass the price of a new computer so I guess I’m forced to move on and as with many other things, change is difficult to accept.
Life must go on although without my beloved computer…
Just so everyone knows... Most of my comments about Shannon are tongue-in-cheek jabs...
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