I've got a few photos in my camera that need to be transferred to my computer, but I really have to get into the habit of taking pictures. It's one I've never really acquired, but I love my new camera and the photos I take with it are actually halfway decent. Usually.
Anyway, we were mildly amused by the situation we found ourselves in today, it was the kind of thing that makes people think we're just a little weird when we tell them about it. So I figured it had a place here.
My sister's iPhone 3G died yesterday. It had a cracked screen and had apparently been dropped one too many times. So off she went to pick up a new iPhone 4. She doesn't have a Mac, doesn't buy digital music and never used the iTunes account she had set up on her laptop. So we needed to download the latest version in order to activate her new phone.
Complications ensued, as they often do when you're trying to operate within time constraints. (I SO identify with the Lewis Carroll quote, "The faster I go, the behinder I get.") And these were the kind of complications that you have no clue what the problem is, even after it's resolved itself.
So, here we were, trying to get to the buffet/movie we planned on making and the program had finally downloaded but was taking forever to install. So my sister said, let's just take it all with us, maybe it'll be done by the time we get there.
No such luck.
We park the car, get my mother into her wheelchair and we really have to get to the buffet, or risk ruining our afternoon plans. So my sister says, "Put it in the trunk, maybe it'll keep working."
Now, I'm just loving this. Because I love all things mobile/portable. And we've got the huge laptop, with the mobile broadband card hooked up to one port, along with the new iPhone tethered to another. And we're placing it in the trunk of our freaking car, to continue working while we're out at a buffet.
As much as I loved it, I couldn't help laughing as I placed it all in the trunk. It just looked so incongruous.
And I have to say that the thought of closing the trunk lid on our tech to let it work its little heart out while go about our business is still making me smile.
Now why, you may ask, didn't we just wait to finish with all of that until we got home from the movie? Well, the phone had been dead since last night. And by the time my sister got her hands on the new phone around noon, she was already twitchy to see what calls she'd missed.
I am SO not one of those people with their phone constantly at their ear, but I recently went without my phone working for a day while I waited for my new charger - which was actually a pleasant surprise, because it was supposed to be 2 days. And though my daughters had the landline number here, and anyone else important knew to call my sister if they couldn't get me, I felt very strange not having access to my phone. I would most certainly have done the same thing in this circumstance.
She ran back after eating, and it was all done, so she got to check her calls before the movie started. WIN!
Speaking of tech, I've been slowly but steadily making my way down a wish list of travel tech. I hope to post soon, with photos, about what I've acquired and what's left on my list. Plus, new travel booked and another move coming up.
Gonna be crazy busy for the next several weeks, but I will try to update about all of that, as well. Hoping that it will all culminate in my dream trip to Europe late October, but my sister would like to go at Thanksgiving.
So some things are moving right along, and others are still unclear for the time being. Will try to be here with the latest developments as they happen. Another habit I need to develop.
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