Technology is loyal to no-one.
I thought we were good friends. For years now, me and technology have got on so well. And even when technology didn’t want to be nice to other people, when I’d get there, he’d be ok with talking to me. We had a great relationship!
But clearly, I’ve done something to offend technology. All of a sudden, he’s turned his back on me; he’s taken the nearest knife and driven it fair into my back.
On Saturday night, our ADSL decided to just die. No particular reason. 15 minutes on the phone to iiNet didn’t get too far, except for her telling me to factory reset my modem. And then the call dropped out. By this time it was nearly midnight and I was tired. So Sunday morning I spent another 20 minutes or so on the phone, and after resetting some settings that weren’t put in place after the factory reset, everything was working. But I was sceptical. And then Monday arvo, the internet was down again. I called iiNet and tried to explain that we hadn’t changed anything and that it was most likely a problem on their end. But after much back and forth, it did seem very possible that my modem was faulty. So there was no internet til I could get my hands on another ADSL modem to check.
But upon arriving home from parentals’ place last night, I glanced at the modem and noticed the ‘ADSL’ light was on. A quick check on the laptop, and sure enough, everything was back up without any effort on my part! But that’s actually more annoying than helpful, because I have no idea what the problem was.
While all this was going on, yesterday morning, the fridge didn’t seem to be very cold at all. But without being sure as to whether the door was actually closed or not, I didn’t think much of it. But again upon arrival home from Mum & Dad’s place last night, it was pretty definite that the fridge wasn’t working at all.
It was funny to see that my first instinct was to power-cycle the fridge – to turn it off at the powerpoint and wait a few seconds and then plug it back in. I’m clearly a child of technology. I had a laugh to myself as I realised that without any intelligence in the motor of the fridge, power-cycling it would do absolutely nothing.
What a fun house.
But I must say, in the first 3-4 months of living there, aside from the hot-water/possum issues, there has been almost nothing go wrong in that house. So we’ve had a good run.
It’s true I guess… everything goes wrong all at once.