“I love technology”, as a famous movie character says, and we are usually pretty up to date with techy stuff here. But that poses its own problems for me. Scott recently purchased me a new laptop to replace my faulty old one, which is wonderful. However, I am not anywhere near figuring out all the cool stuff on Windows 7 that is available at the click of a mouse, and now I have a new Droid phone to figure out. This is not as easy as it seems, because it’s basically a small computer with its own operating system that differs from any large computer I’ve ever owned. We spent the evening going through tutorials and manuals and haven’t even scratched the surface, I’m afraid. I can call, text, and manage my contacts and email, which I feel is a great accomplishment at this point. But I want to do the awesome stuff without being frustrated. Of course, this applies to my computer and I’ve had that for a couple months. But honestly, how many lame tutorials can a person stomach in one day and remember any of it?
The up side of all this is that soon I’ll be doing cool stuff with both machines. The down side is that once I get them both figured out and am comfortable, there will be new technology to own and learn. It’s a vicious, worldwide conspiracy designed to make techies happy and normal people crazy.
Am I a happy techie or a crazy normal person?
I was bored at work (cause all I had to do was watch the desk) and reading stuff, and saw this, and wondered Dad is a tech guy; I guess I’m a tech guy too, but in a different way (I don’t get computers either), but I’ll have a career in technology too (except awesome technology that makes sweet music). So will my future wife someday be making a blog post similar to this? More likely she’ll be posting about how she doesn’t understand why I always need to be buying the newest awesome sound equipment. 🙂