aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Friday, July 28, 2006

Down and out II

You know, in some ways I am so technologically spoiled that it’s not even funny. I’ve got nearly every tool and tech toy I can handle. But, believe me, sometimes my dependence on all that technology feels like nothing more than an [expletive deleted].

You’ve already read the tale of my internet going down. Well today it got worse. First Windstream let me down again. It turns out that when they said that they’d overnight the modem, they were careful not to say that they’d send it out overnight. It would only go out overnight once the order got to the warehouse. Apparently that has yet to happen.

Grrr.

Now I’m going to the beach on Sunday. Lucky me. I was looking forward to it if for nothing else because the hotel has high speed Internet! But more, like any other self-respecting early 21st century technology worker, I have lots and lots of work I plan to do there, a PowerPoint presentation with plenty of video and graphics for a panel at a conference Friday not the least of it.

A few weeks ago I got a spiffy new MacBook Pro. I’ve been reading about how dazzling these machines are and my experience bears that out. So much so that I was going to fully commit to that one machine rather than being all spread out across a number of machines. Tonight. I was going to load that sucker up. And tonight… it went black. Totally and completely black. No throbbing sleep light, no pulsing power orange or green. Nothing. Nadda.

More later. If I can find an Internet connection. And a computer.