Techinical Problem

Who says technology makes one’s life easier?! I say in a lot of ways, it really complicates life. Listen to what I went through Saturday morning.

On Friday night, the night before Show and Tell, I was out until almost midnight. As usual, I had left printing out my chemistry report till the last possible minute. Unfortunately, the floppy on which I had saved the report in school, turned out to be un-formatted. Since I couldn’t open the document, I had to ask Janani to type part of it out and email it to me. I came home only to find that our internet connection wasn’t working. Thinking that I would get up early Saturday morning and access my report (along with Supreya’s) through email the next morning, I went to sleep.

I got up at SIX am…which (those of you who know me well, will know) is an UNEARTHLY hour of the morning for me! I went to the computer that had both an internet connection and a printer, and found that yet again, the internet connection wasn’t working. So, I went to the other computer and accessed my email, got the two reports, typed up the remaining part of my own, saved it, and woke up my dad to give me a pen drive. I only have one printer, so I had to transfer the files to the one that had a functional printer, but no internet. I transferred the files, and turned of the computer…only to realise that there was something wrong with the pen drive and the files weren’t being transferred! This repeated with the second pen drive, AFTER I typed the whole thing up AGAIN, since the first document failed to save (for some unidentifiable reason). When I gave up on the pen drive, I decided to burn a CD. Just as I started doing that, dad brought the printer to that room. By the time he had connected it, accessed the files, and printed both documents, I had MISSED THE BUS!

Argh! It was the most disastrous morning ever. Not to mention the fact that my iPod is working, and neither is the webcam. I hate technology! Hate it I tell you!