Techie toys and other crutches...
Oct. 11th, 2005 03:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
readingredheadHeh. So right now I feel really stupid, and kinda pathetic. Okay, scratch that, really pathetic. I had a bum day all day because this morning in Physics I pulled out my Pocket PC and it wouldn't turn on. I tried everything that I knew to get it to work again, and it wouldn't. Due to this sole fact, I did not have a good day. (Well, I am sure there were other things, but I didn't see them, and I still don't; the only visible cause of my lack of a good day was this issue.)
So I just got home, put it in its cradle, and let it charge a few minutes before trying to turn it on again. Lo and behold, this time it worked. The first thing to pop up on the screen was the "Dangerously Low Battery" warning.
So now I feel stupid, like I've wasted a whole day being kinda bummed out and annoyed when I should have just been happy for whatever was good. I think that one of my problems is that I have a tendency to stress the small stuff -- or rather, turn the small stuff into big stuff, and then stress over it. It kinda sucks, especially when my family's really watching me this year to make sure I keep up my sanity.
And there were good parts of my day. A few very good parts, to be completely honest. There may be even more good parts yet to come. So I suppose my lesson of the day is to keep my priorities straight, and also to not rely on technology so much. The last time I did, my hard drive crashed due to engineering flaws and I lost all of my data from seventh grade and any time prior to then. So this serves as a bit of a warning to back up my data, I suppose. I get those a lot...but what can I say, I'm lazy and reckless at the same time. Not quite the combination one would expect from me...but I've always prided myself on defying expectations.
And I'm just thinking as I'm writing that in the long run these entries will be pretty useful to me because they'll let me look back on what I was thinking and feeling, but also my entries aren't like most other people's. Most people talk about themselves and their days in the specific, where I definitely deal more in the abstract. Also, I'm more paranoid about what information gets released onto the 'net...but that's another story.
Heh. And now I really ought to get going since it's about 4:12 (okay, exactly 4:12) and I have to be at a health class at 5:00 and before that I have to pick up my dinner and Claire (in that order). Sayonara folks!
So I just got home, put it in its cradle, and let it charge a few minutes before trying to turn it on again. Lo and behold, this time it worked. The first thing to pop up on the screen was the "Dangerously Low Battery" warning.
So now I feel stupid, like I've wasted a whole day being kinda bummed out and annoyed when I should have just been happy for whatever was good. I think that one of my problems is that I have a tendency to stress the small stuff -- or rather, turn the small stuff into big stuff, and then stress over it. It kinda sucks, especially when my family's really watching me this year to make sure I keep up my sanity.
And there were good parts of my day. A few very good parts, to be completely honest. There may be even more good parts yet to come. So I suppose my lesson of the day is to keep my priorities straight, and also to not rely on technology so much. The last time I did, my hard drive crashed due to engineering flaws and I lost all of my data from seventh grade and any time prior to then. So this serves as a bit of a warning to back up my data, I suppose. I get those a lot...but what can I say, I'm lazy and reckless at the same time. Not quite the combination one would expect from me...but I've always prided myself on defying expectations.
And I'm just thinking as I'm writing that in the long run these entries will be pretty useful to me because they'll let me look back on what I was thinking and feeling, but also my entries aren't like most other people's. Most people talk about themselves and their days in the specific, where I definitely deal more in the abstract. Also, I'm more paranoid about what information gets released onto the 'net...but that's another story.
Heh. And now I really ought to get going since it's about 4:12 (okay, exactly 4:12) and I have to be at a health class at 5:00 and before that I have to pick up my dinner and Claire (in that order). Sayonara folks!
