Don't say...IT.
Ok - so I proved to myself today that I get very very stressed out by technology.
As computers forced their way into everyday life I proudly resisted absorbing new information...when I started work they didn't even have a computer in the office and we had an exchange with a 3 digit number for a phone calls. I would skite about not knowing much about any IT lingo and now, as a result of my own inaction I am totally left behind. Totally. I wish I'd paid more attention and when work would have to sign off that I had a particular level of IT competency - well - I would just smile and shrug and off we went for another 3 years.
AnotherJ surprised us with our very own DVD Recorder on Saturday morning. We were pretty overwhelmed but I just wanted to run in case he expected ME to set it up. Then this morning he popped 'round and connected all the cords and even downloaded the photos I am using on my blog.
When I arrived home from work I kinda went into an ungrateful meltdown....I couldn't locate the photos on the computer, I couldn't take the subtitles off the screen, I couldn't work out how to play a DVD rather than movies saved onto the hardrive...so of course I called Anotherj - 6 times, seriously, literally - 6 times - each time - whinging, complaining, begging for a resolution to each issue....each time the solutions would have been easy for any normal personage....but for me...it was pure hell.
August 13, 2008 at 7:16 PM
See that thing in your left hand? Could have saved yourself a few wasted phone calls...
August 13, 2008 at 8:10 PM
- i always always always read the instruction bookelt of everything I get before i do anything - even my new alarm clock. seriously I do. I don't kow that it helps my stress levels any - but there you go.