Technology Revolts!

In the past two weeks, technology and I have NOT been friends. If technology was a guy and I wasn’t married to my fabulous Hubby and having his babies, but instead I was dating technology…well we’d definitely be “taking a break” right now.

I am a genuine technology lover. We’ve had a computer in the house for as long as I can remember (Zork, anyone?). I was the first of my friends to have an e-mail address. I went to the Apple store the first day the iphone was released to buy one. But despite all my years of embracing technology, it seems that lately, it’s revolting against me!

It all started a week or so ago when I was leaving work. I had my iphone in my hand one second, and the next second it just leapt out of my hand…and then this is what it looked like:

For those of you not familiar with iphones…that’s bad. It was still usable  in the short term (kind of)…but I obviously needed to have some sort of plan for the long term (that did not involve me getting tiny shards of glass stuck in my thumb when I needed to use that top left corner). My dad offered me his old one after he upgrades later this week, and my hubby has been trying to get me to upgrade to the iphone 4 for months…but I REALLY wanted to hold out until the next version is released, hopefully later in the year. I thought I’d found the perfect fix when I bought an iphone repair screen kit online for $7.50. This was IDEAL. I could fix my screen and then wait until summer to get a new phone. All for under $10!

The replacement screen came. It was cracked. So I had to send it back and they sent me a new one. I sat down Sunday to do my repairs. And well…they didn’t turn out QUITE as well as I would have hoped. Okay, I cracked my replacement screen in the installation process, my “Home” button stopped functioning, and my phone plug at the bottom stopped working. Now of course I had backed up my phone before I started taking it apart. Well…that’s at least what I wish I was saying to myself as all signs of life in iphone 3G were fading.

Yup, that’s right…I didn’t back it up. Why? WHY? Why was I so stupid? At this point, I was completely fed up with my “fixes”. So I took a break to make dinner, and ended up losing it in front of my Hubby, crying over the veggie quesadillas I was making. He wisely advised me that it was time to go to the AT&T store and buy me an iphone 4. At this point, I agreed. And I’m now the proud owner of a new iphone!

So you’d think I would have learned my lesson about messing with technology, right? Wrong. Today…I was fiddling with the back end of this very blog, and I accidentally put some code where it shouldn’t have been. The result? Whenever I tried to look at the website or go to the “backend” where I construct the posts, I got a big ol’ ERROR message. Seriously friends, I about had a heart attack. Luckily, I am apparently not the first person to mess with things they shouldn’t be messing with and nearly deleting their blogs, as there was much help out there in cyber space for me. In only 15 minutes or so I was able to remove the thing I inserted and recover This American Wife. Phew!

Either way…I’ve decided that technology and I might just need to take a break for a bit. Only very straightforward interactions where no one can get hurt: I can only use my iphone and laptop in a padded cell, I can only post to my blog when I am being supervised by an IT technician, and I can’t be in the vicinity of any tiny little screwdrivers that might tempt me to take a part a gadget. But maybe, just maybe, technology and I will get back together sometime soon. Valetine’s Day is coming up, after all.