This is what my face looks like after using my video editing software.
I like to call this face: Technology, I hate you but I need you or Why am I so broke?
I like to call this face: Technology, I hate you but I need you or Why am I so broke?Now this all dates back to my younger years as a teenager. My parents were the focus on the family type who believed that computers were evil and the internet was the anti-christ. So when we brokedown and got the old dial-up aol back in...wait for it... 1998 it was a big deal.
Since then, I've obviously gotten more technologically savvy. But, I've always been broke. And it's been my experience that those two things DO NOT mix. When I went to college, my parents gave me a used Macintosh computer from 1986. If you think I'm exaggerating.. I assure you, I truly am not. They thought it would be a good "writing papers" computer, it turned out to not be.
Later I married Tim and discovered that we were forever doomed to remain oldschool PC people for 2 reasons: A) Because we were poor and B) His dad had a "nack" for building computers. Now this has proven to be helpful for computer updates, and I am terribly grateful that I don't still have the '86 Macintosh computer that weighs more than my 3-year-old.
However, I long for an imac. I drool over every commercial. I sigh in defeat whenever I see a youtube video with MAC software. I dream for the day when I will actually have a webcam built into my computer. I long for the day when I will own a laptop. But sadly.... I fear those will be the days I am in retirement and the MAC will be obselete.
So until retirement, I will be making the above face while I wait an absurd amount of time for my computer to think properly.
3 comments:
We were going to use our tax refund to get a new computer... a laptop!!!! but... the more grown-up thing to do would be to catch up on past due bills... le sigh... I am embarrassed to say that our computer is six years old!!!
someday I will be cool and have laptop... someday!
cute post... I have to say... even with the angry face.
Dear Erin Kaye - While I dislike the reason for it, I love your "I hate technology but I need you" face. Such anger and frustration, with fists balled up and ready to punch out the next windows PC craptastic behavior.
Anyway - take heart, Erin. Believe it or not, I didn't get a usable computer until I was in my late thirties, and a totally cool Mac was not mine until around my mid-forties. Long before retirement age, right? So be patient, and that most awesome Mac product will be yours someday. I just know it.
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