Opinion : The Life of Electronics

Battle of the electronics...they look like their behaving but in this picture they really aren't...

Hollywood really should get on this movie idea, and yes, I'll take a cut of the money they make on it...

The other day I did not want to get out of bed. It had nothing to do with sleep, or people or household tasks, it was the electronics in my life.

I am closer to my laptop than any other gadget in the world, even my phone. The laptop and I, well I was going to say we're attached at the hip, but more the thighs.

The two of us have a working relationship that beats working with most adults.

Of course, I'm always the boss, well, most of the time.

This last week, the laptop took a vacay and forgot to fill out a form to let me know it planned to take off work.

In general, I think I've gotten this job down to what I need to do, who to talk to, where I need to go, how to make ads in my sleep and email that I can ignore.

The things I haven't figured out include my camera, computer, video camera and anything else that plugs into the wall.

The other night I needed to edit some video down, cutting out dead space, saving the viewers about 20 minutes of nail filing time. So like I usually do, I downloaded the video to my computer.

Since it's an old computer, it thought I wanted the silent movie edition. So I watched as the cast in the video acted out their parts, but I could hear nothing.

For some reason the computer and the video camera decided that they were done talking to each other. So I thought I'd see if my phone which operates the camera could shed some insight. I turned on the phone, which promptly said, "I've never heard of this camera before, I have no idea what you're talking about, it doesn't look familiar to me!"

So I'm sitting here balancing my laptop, camera and phone and looking at them all a bit perplexed.

"Come on," I say in my most soothing voice, "You all liked each other and got along just find last night, why won't you talk to each other today?"

The phone crossed its arms and said, "I'm not getting involved."

The video camera said, "Look, I work my tail off and all the computer does is copy my work and take the credit, I'm done!"

The computer sat here grinning.

I had it with the lot of them and pulled out another laptop to see if I couldn't work around the little brats, and it said, "What internet? I don't see any internet."

So I sat here with not one, but two laptops, one camera and my phone trying to figure out what to do.

I spent a good 6 hours, trying everything I could think of, rebooting, defragmenting, installing software to smack down any hacking or malware, restarting, popping out memory cards, testing and they all sat there laughing at me. So I gave up.

I was just glad there wasn't a meeting that I needed to go to or something important happening.

So this morning I get up and try again to edit the video and everything ran like clockwork. My computer said something like, "I have no idea what you're even typing about, none of that happened, we're all well-behaved electronics."

The camera is still in its box, I refuse to even look at it today. My phone, it's working just fine. As a matter of fact I just finished a chat with one of my advertisers about tweaking her ad and shared a few laughs, so while it's a late start, we're off and running again, and it's with a sigh of relief.

Don't tell them, but I fear my electronics and their quibbling with each other more than anything.

So here we are, we're back! (for now, until the siblings start fighting again...)

Now to figure out the settings on my camera.