the electronics revolt!

so today . . . this may be a very short blog. it is totally up to my old laptop computer.

yesterday i connected my computer to my photo printer/scanner/copier to continue scanning negatives. i hit the "scan" button, only to get a message that said something like, "your computer is woefully inadequate for this task. it is out of room on it's hard drive. how could you not know this was coming?!?!? why do you keep trying to stuff more information on it??!?! it's full, i tell you, FULL!!! CALL JAMES RIGHT NOW!!!"

ok, it didn't exactly say that, but that's what i heard.

i knew it was going to eventually be an issue. last week i defragged the hard drive to make more room, but i knew it was a very short-term solution. however, when i defragged, i realized that for some insane reason my computer's 160gb hard drive was divided into two parts! and i could apparently only access one!!! i immediately texted james, my computer wizard. he said he could fix it for me so that i could use all the space (thank you!) but he would need my computer for a day or two.

gulp. a day or two? would that mean, like, overnight??!?! because really, i'm not sure i can do that...

i continued scanning negatives--until last night. that's when my precious laptop refused to accept any more photos.

houston, we have a problem...

i took my computer to church with me this morning to work on a music project for the band. after church i talked to james about my hard drive issue. and he said, "oh, you have your computer with you? i could just take it now. then i could get it back to you in a couple of days." what?!?! oh nonononononono! i was not ready to be computerless just yet. i needed time to adjust, time to plan. i have things to do... i found myself involuntarily moving my computer out of his reach. "do you have your power cord?" he innocently asked. yesssss! i did not have my power cord with me! "oh, no, i guess you can't take it now," i said. "i'll have to get it to you later, when i have the power cord." panic temporarily averted, but i knew i was going to have to give it up. eventually. because i needed james to work his magic, and he needed time in which to do it...

i came home, burned some cds, played on facebook for a while, checked my email, and then said good-bye to my fifth appendage for who knows how long.

and so... i am blogging on my old laptop. the reason it is my old laptop instead of my current laptop, is that the keyboard doesn't always work. sometimes some of the letters refuse to show up unless i press them 459 times--and sometimes not even then. which is why i am not sure how long this blog will be, because at any moment the keys could stop working...

in fact, i am amazed that it has let me write as much as i have, because today my electronics appear to be attempting a coup. it actually started this morning with my phone. i tried to send a very important text during church, but my phone refused!! (ok, i know i shouldn't be texting during church, but i HAD to find out if someone was going to be playing the drums with me at the end of the service. because if i didn't have a drummer, i was considering faking a sickness and going home. because really, the last song was going to be that bad without a drummer...) and then i tried to text diandra after church, and my phone still refused. and THEN someone left me a voicemail and when i tried to retrieve it, my phone acted like it didn't know me--it wanted me to give it a password and record a new message . . . AND THEN when i received a text, the sound was all wonky.

i think my phone is feeling it's age, because rollie and diandra both have new cell phones, which makes mine feel old... and it is clearly not happy about being the senior citizen of our little electronics family. but that is no reason to punish me! i love my phone--i don't know why it has turned on me...

but that is not all--oh no. while i was sitting here trying to blog on a six-year-old temperamental laptop, and keeping a wary eye on my phone (who i don't even know anymore!) the TIVO started acting weirdly. i wasn't even watching a recording! i was watching live tv and it kept pausing and stuttering, and i wasn't doing anything! i wasn't!! (i know you don't believe me, but it is true!!!)

i don't think it is a full moon. i don't think aliens have landed. but all this electronic misfiring on the same day makes me wonder, just a little bit, if perhaps something has changed in the atmosphere... or maybe the government is finally trying to take control of my electronics... or maybe i am dreaming... now where did i put my totem...