tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38409291715722474662011-10-04T16:14:17.923-07:00MissFabulousXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438248447078254224noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3840929171572247466.post-61528228406303827272011-08-22T20:50:00.000-07:002011-08-23T19:08:11.511-07:00<i><b>futures made of virtual insanity... now always seem to be governed by this love we have for useless twisting our new technology... oh now there is no sound, for we all live underground...</b></i><div><i> <br /></i></div><div>I moved into this little tiny piece of the American Dream 3+ years ago. I moved all my stuff here, happy to be owning a small piece of property and some independence when the lady that lives downstairs comes up to tell me that while I'm moving all of my things, I am shaking her light fixtures. She says this to me as the train passes behind our building and starts shaking my floor beneath me. I immediately want to RUN back to my mother's house and scrap this adult crap. Clearly, it's for the birds. I spent the first year here tip toeing around this place, worried I would disturb the beast below. I spent a lot of my time watching TV. In my bed. Not walking around at all. After approximately, 1.5 years of living in this prison, I mean apartment, my TV breaks. Right before Christmas thankyouverymuch. I immediately start flipping out.</div><div> <br /></div><div>The massive tantrum was for two reasons... 1. um <i>hello</i>? it's Christmas! I have NO money! And 2. the TV was about 2 years old, there is no reason why it should not work. I turned to the inter webs to see what kind of crap I've got going on here and the google search tells me that not only is the company out of business, but there is absolutely nothing you can do about your broken TV. I cried a little harder after reading that. The next day, I decide I'm going to utilize this fancy Walmart credit card I got and purchase a new TV. My mother decides that is not the right way to go. PC Richard is having a sale and you HAVE to buy this Sony TV. It's the best of the best she tells me. We screamed at each other until I gave in. </div><div> <br /></div><div>Went to PC Richard after work to buy the BEST OF THE BEST Sony TV. I get home, happy to have purchased a fancy TV and a 5 year warranty. Set up all the wires, you know, the crazy 4 different colored ones that are basically figured out with trial and error. Can't wait to plug this bad boy in and watch my programs (as my grandmother would say). Except I plug the damn thing in, after 2 hours of setting it up alone, and it is completely DEAD. I head back into temper tantrum mode, because what else am I supposed to do at 11 pm?! If this TV is in fact, the best brand of TV, then why the hell doesn't it work? It's supposed to work!</div><div> <br /></div><div>I pack up the TV. I'm seeing red. I get it back in the box. I <i>may </i>have called my mother and yelled a little bit about the fact that this TV she nagged me to buy didn't work... but that's besides the point. <i>Anyway, </i>the next morning I lug this huge box to the car and bring it back to PC Richard. The guy tells me "out of, like, 1,000 TVs that Sony sends us, one of em is usually a lemon." GREAT. I got the one out of a thousand? Yup, sounds about right. They give me a new TV, I test it IN THE STORE and move on with my life.</div><div> <br /></div><div>So, why, after 1.5 years of having this fancy schmancy TV does it break? Glad I purchased that 5 year warranty! Last week, the TV died. Well it didn't die really, but the sensor for the remote stopped working and so the 20 year olds that work for the PC Richard repair shop came to pick it up. I was hungover and it was like, 9 am on a Sunday and they were all loud and stompy in my apartment. Would have been the cherry on the sundae if the beast below had come up for a visit! Am I glad I didn't have to buy a new TV? Heck yes! But really, it was under two years old... really?! It took a week to return home... a WEEK. I was twitching. It is 2011. We are now trained to rely heavily on technology. And I rely heavily on my TV. Everything is electronic and digital and HD. And so it boggles my mind when things don't work. </div><div> <br /></div><div>It drives me bananas when I walk into a place and I lose cell phone service. I hate that I work for a telecommunications company and sometimes the Internet and Outlook service is down. I try really hard not to flip out because let's face it, these things are amazing and they are there to help us. It's just hard for me to jump in head first into technology land because I feel that we give it absolutely no room to fail. All these things are right there for the taking, the world is at our fingertips. And I'm sitting here, ranting about technology and how I have a special relationship with TV on the Internet! And when my cell phone loses service, it always seems to be when my mother is calling and I have to hear "I love how your phone is always in your hand, but when <i>I </i>call, it magically doesn't work!" Sigh.</div><div> <br /></div><div>I have to wonder how far I would go to have the latest and greatest technology? I'm the girl that is saying I won't purchase an iPhone, but only because it will cost me my arm AND my leg. Blackberries are a dying breed and I am losing BBMers by the DAY. The truth is that in 2011 we can't live without technology and all the glorious things that come with it. I'm really going to need a better, more obvious guarantee though because I'm too lazy to read the fine print, plus it hurts my eyes...</div><div> <br /></div><div>I'm going to watch some of my programs that I need to catch up on... Thanks Time Warner DVR!</div><div> <br /></div><div><i><b>virtual insanity is what we're living in...</b></i></div><div> <br /></div><div> <br /></div><div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3840929171572247466-6152822840630382727?l=mymindlessrants.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>MissFabulousXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00438248447078254224noreply@blogger.com1