So it's been a couple weeks since I've blogged. One of those weeks was due to technology. The rest of them... well I have no excuse.
So a couple weeks ago my microwave went out. Not it's fault, just got old (and somehow melted a giant hole in the inside. Not a real stresser, for the most part microwaves do what they're supposed to. I was even thinking about what great technology it is and how I was going to praise it on my blog the next day. We replaced it that evening and, conveniently, it chose to go out in the middle of a big Sears appliance sale. Got it home and went to bed. The next morning my kids are making breakfast and I hear this horrible rattling sound, so I go to the kitchen and the microwave plate is trying to rattle it's way out of the microwave. I stopped it and made sure it was on the rollers and turned it back on. It rattled for a second and then started making a noise that sounded like a freight train. The neighbor kids said "It's supposed to sound like that." So I boxed it up and we took it back, but it was the last one so we had to go 35 miles to another Sears to get one and I had to go another day without it. Since I have built my life around a microwave it was a little inconvenient, but it happens.
Now for the no good, very bad part. Like I said before, I'm studying interior architecture and am in the middle of a construction documents class. I try to get my homework done early in the week so I can get feedback and correct anything before the deadline. Except for this week. Do you remember a few weeks ago when I spent an eternity at office max trying to get my plans printed? Well I got those out and laid them out on my drafting table and started to work on remodeling the building. I was about an hour into it when I realized that I had way to much room. I got out my architect scale and the 1/4 scale was NOT a 1/4 inch. When they printed it, they didn't print it as is but fit it to the page. This meant I had to drive 30 minutes there and 30 minutes back to have it redone and then start completely over. This put me a day behind - still doable. (And I'll blame human error on that one.)
The next day, as I sit down at my computer and log into my class, pop up ads keep flashing across my screen along with dire warnings that my computer is about to blow up if I don't go to a certain website and fix it. In spite of my husbands diligence in teaching me how to avoid it, I had acquired some malware when I updated Adobe Flash a few days before that and even though he took it off immediately, it was now taking over my computer. The only solution was to back up my computer and then nuke it and start over. When I tried to log into my class the next morning, their website was down. This put me 2 more days behind. One snafu I can recover from, the two of them in the same week had me scrambling to get my plans drawn and turned in on time.
Therefore, I couldn't blog because I had no computer and by the time I did, who has time to blog?
This week has gone the same - still a little further behind than I would like to be but I can catch up, right? My husband goes out of town on business and Monday morning I get on my computer that he has restored and none of my documents are there. He supposedly reloaded them from the back-up but... they aren't there! And he has the drive he backed it up on with him. So again, for 3 days until he comes home, I have no computer. But I get out my plans on Monday night, which I have had copied before I move to the next step and unroll them and the copy place has only given me half the copies and kept my original. Ahhhh!!!! This means another 1 hour trip to the copy place to retrieve it and I have to wait until the next day to work on my plans. Again, this was human error and not the fault of technology, but we have come to rely on it so much that when we don't have it we become paralyzed.
