There's Been A Revolt!

My technology has turned on me, all at once. It is like they unified and decided to remind me who was really in charge.

On my drive home from work, I was in the middle of a very important work call (well, it had to do with upcoming dinner plans but I was talking to someone I work with so technically, a work matter) when my BlackBerry just turned off. I didn't think the battery was that low so I hit a button on the screen, and the key popped off, into my hand. I'm not on Best Buy's Geek Squad or anything but my diagnosis of the phone would be something like, "it doesn't look good".

Next, I needed to refill a prescription at CVS so I use my iPhone Google app where you just speak what you're looking for and it finds it for you. The search that kept coming up was, "See Vs Bar and Tin" instead of CVS in Barrington. Ugh.

I came home thinking the house could use a quick once over with the vacuum. I plug my iPod into my Bose so I can rock out nice and loud over the cleaning noise and my iPod has no music in it. My music has been lost in cyber space.

Feeling the need to retreat from this technological revolt, I grab my tried and true nook (Barnes and Noble's awesome, love, love, love it e-reader for those of you out of the geek loop), run a bath, and figure I will read while soaking my troubles away. I've had the nook since Christmas and this afternoon is the first time I've ever received the warning, "your nook is too low to function. it is critical that you charge it." Critical that I charge it?!?! Really? Critical. Fine, I will follow the nooks order, pop a bottle of wine and get on my laptop, connect with the masses.

You don't think that would go smoothly, do you? My laptop battery is dead so I dug out my cord only to discover that it will power up the laptop but the battery won't charge.

Here's what I'm thinking - if I want to talk to people, I will use a hard wired, home line. Does anyone have one of those? If I want music, I will learn to play the piano. Future reading will be done with an actual book and I should start publish my blog as a weekly Gazette using a hand powered printing press, distributed via the Pony Express.

You win technology, I surrender.