Wires with and without adapters, ones with lavender plugs, round ones, flat ones, clear ones, computer putty colored ones, black ones, thick ones, thin ones, and cranky ones.
What has brought this into clear focus today is the simple fact that my phone had stopped working.
This in itself is a rather odd thing when you think about it, because when I was growing up, phones never stopped working unless the equipment was not operational at the phone company. Or you had a cockroach wedged somewhere in the innards or something. You could have a phone that looked like it came over on the Mayflower, but it would still work. And if by some chance it did have a real problem, a nice telephone repairman would come within a day or at most two and he would FIX it for you.
Now a days we have these portable phones that have batteries that need replacing and if something goes wrong with it’s base, as seems to have happened to mine, guess what? It’s trash! You have to go buy another one. We have only had this phone for about 2 years. And it’s trash?
And this is what they call “progress”.
The reason the cord issue came up is while my husband was trying to figure out what is wrong with my phone, he fooled around under my desk and messed around with the tangled mass of computer cords back there, in the middle of which was the phone cord. After determining that the phone was trash, he went skipping off to his OWN computer room. I noticed that my speakers weren’t working right. Creed was NOT sounding very Creed like. I had to get under my desk and wiggle all the sound system cords to get the woofer to work again. Which confirms my theory that when your computer is working properly. DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING OR TOUCH ANYTHING! You will be sorry.
During this “operation” I also realized how many things are plugged into the back of my computer. I have a little hand held scanner that a true computer geek would laugh his techno head off at because of it’s ancient design. BUT it works perfectly, so I still use it thank you very much. And then there is the digital camera of equally prehistoric origins that is plugged into some kind of adapter and a power cord so I can download the pictures I have taken. These two things are laying on top of my desk, in a haphazard way because they can’t get far from their cords. And what I am a little nervous about is, soon we are getting Dragon Naturally Speaking software in the mail and we will have to add a microphone to the pile of umbilically connected apparati cluttering my desk. Oh yeah and if my youngest son finishes our family web page, he wants us to get a little camera to put on top of the computer so we can do video phone network conferencing….or some such folderol. I am telling you, we have all gone stark raving mad, but we are afraid to admit it.
So my watchwords for the day are…. Don’t mess around with ANY of the cords on the back of your computer. And don’t say I didn’t warn you.
I’m going out in the backyard and watch the plants grow.
I think I need a cookie too.