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September 19, 2007
Technology vs. Me
The technology won.
I live 27 miles from my office. On the weekends I can make it down to that general area in 25 minutes, but during the week it is a different story. It frequently takes me an hour or longer, and one of the ways I keep my cool while I’m sitting in traffic is by listening to morning radio. This morning, out of nowhere, my car radio just started refusing to tune in to most stations. All of my favorites were fuzzy and switching back and forth to other nearby frequencies. It only lasted for the half of my drive that is closest to Frederick, and I’ve heard that occasionally they do something at Fort Detrick that messes up people’s garage door frequencies, so I’m wondering what they were up to this morning. Either that, or aliens are on their way.
Whatever it was, the problem was solved by this evening. Still for a little while there, the only station I could get was Mix 107.3, and I cannot stand that stupid, smug Jack Diamond morning show. It was like being trapped in a mobile version of hell. And naturally, the one time I would have been ok with stop and go traffic so I could try to dig the neglected tape box out from where it is wedged under the passenger seat, I didn’t get any. Luckily by the time I hit Clarksburg the radio came back. It was still weird, and annoying.
But technology wasn’t done messing with me yet. We have a great IT department at my company – staffed with really friendly and helpful guys who are not even a little bit condescending when I call up with whatever stupid problem I’m having at the time. However, today they were doing something that resulted in an email I really needed to receive getting quarantined, and while they notified me of the quarantine, I couldn’t go retrieve the email for some reason. And then my computer lost the ability to save. That’s right, when I went to save the changes I was making to my document, my stupid computer froze. At first I just thought it was Word acting up (I’m always ready to judge Microsoft like that) but then I cut and paste in to Notepad, and that wouldn’t save either. I ended up printing out my all the stuff I was working on and leaving everything open on my desktop. Hopefully there will be no restarting or power surges overnight ,and the problem will have resolved itself by the morning. John pointed out that I could have pasted the copy in to an email and sent it to myself. I wish I’d thought of that, but, well, I didn’t.
At least I made it home without any more incidents. And tomorrow is another day.
Posted by Bad Penguin at September 19, 2007 11:28 PM
Comments
I dislike that guy too!
I had no idea he was even still on the radio. There's no justice in this world.
Posted by: tim at September 20, 2007 1:06 AM