Okay, so I have many blogs to catch up on. As most of you know, my computer decided to end its life sometime back in April/early May, and due to the absolute hect-ivity (yes, I just invented a word!) of the last, well, SEVERAL weeks, posting has been quite a problem for me. So, here come the rants.
I'm going to dedicate this blog to my new personal awareness of just how much we rely on our computers on an everyday basis. Of course, there are important things like email and let's not forget Facebook, but also simpler things, like checking the weather. With the passing of a few seconds and the clicking of a few buttons, viola! We can have the weather of our city dispalayed on screen, right in front of us. Wondering what type of day they're having in say, Bosnia? A few more clicks and BAM! it's there.
In a dormitory where television doesn't exist, checking the weather via computer can be quite handy. I can't tell you how many times I cursed my Macbook as I trudged home in the rain because I hadn't known, based off of the sunny skies at 11 am, that by 2 there would be a thick black thundercloud over my head. It got to the point where I carried an umbrella nearly everyday, and why? Because my computer was broken.
Movie times, store hours, online translators, phone numbers and email addresses for flight companies and travel agents....it's HARD to live without a computer. You can't check email. You can't write an email. You can't write a paper. You can't upload photos (ladies, Russia photos are coming soon! I haven't been holding out on you!). You can't even charge your ipod or use the light from your laptop's screen to find your way across a dark room! Oh, the frustration.
Of course, there was the good side to the computer being broken. I didn't really need to worry about my roommate leaving my door unlocked and someone possibly stealing my computer. If they did, the joke was on them.....they just stole a seven pound piece of scrap metal and white plastic.
I have to say, to all the old fogies that nix computers......You're stinkin' crazy.
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