Technology SUCKS!!!

It totally does! We had a power outage on Tuesday and after that the upstairs cable box wasn't working so we had no TV for few days until T asked me if we could just attach the cable from the box to the TV and get the basic TV...so I did that on Wednesday night and we had TV upstairs again. We called Comcast on Tuesday to see if they could do something remotely but it wasn't working so they sent a tech today and now we have a brand new box upstairs and the TV is working again.



I had to get up super early this morning because I had to make sure I was up when the guy came. His allocated time was between 11am and 1pm but he was here little after 10am. When I say early I mean early for us unemployed people who do not need to get up at 5:30 am to go to the gym before work like my lovely, awesome dedicated T does. I can sleep in late and stay in bed for as long as I want or for as long as the cats let me, which ever comes first. So i came downstairs and turned on our brand-spanking-new 10 month old Sony frigging Bravia 46 inch wide screen TV...the green power sign blinked and blinked and blinked and it made the "on" sound and then it went red...it's blinking red...red...red and some more red and nothing happens! AWESOME! So I fought with the TV for 40 minutes before the Comcast guy arrived AND are you ready for this? My almost 2 year old Dell fucking computer with Windows the-best-ever-user-system-Vista froze on me! It got to the point where it shows the icons on the desktop and messenger screen appeared but then nothing. Mouse wasn't working, the Control-Alt-Del command wasn't working so I turned it off and then back on...and this comes on!



I've had so many problems with this computer and it's soft and hardware...my last computer had every imaginable problem you can name!

When the C guy came here I asked him if he knows anything about turning TVs on and so he tried and then he told me it looks like it's busted. It's so funny how we have a TV that's probably older than me upstairs that's working, and a new and supposedly better technology TV downstairs that just crapped out. After the Comcast guy left I called Sony help center to see if there was anything I could try. I read my owners manual and the troubleshooting section there but they didn't even have "TV does not turn on" as an option there! WTF?!?!?

The lady on the phone was nice though and she scheduled a tech to come take a look at our TV next Thursday so until then we have no TV downstairs. We bought a 4 year extended warranty on our TV so at least it's covered. But I gotta tell you, I'm getting pretty frigging tired with all these problems. T pointed out that it's probably me because her old big as TV was fine before we moved in together and the it died...which is why we bought this Sony in the first place...her old small TV which is upstairs was fine before we moved in together and now it's showing signs of old age...(although I think it's Comcast and not the TV)...my first computer had battery, charger, hardware and blue screen of death problems...and now I have this lovely Dell with Windows Vista...need I say more?? Although it's the Vista, not me!

Yeah, so that's been my morning and week so far. I have been applying to jobs all over the place but no bites. I'm not even getting the insurance company calls and e-mails anymore! I'm going crazy...as nice as the cats are, they don't talk to me...this is a picture from this morning when we came downstairs and I was fighting with the TV and my computer. It's a sad sad existence for the cats!





T suggested that I'll go take a walk so I'm gonna go to our neighborhood Dunkin Donuts and get a FREE large caramel latte and maybe a donut to go with it. The gym can wait for few hours. If you wanna know about the Philly parade, go to T's blog. This weekend we are gonna see T's family, it's a fathers day here on Sunday so we are having a breakfast at Johnny's house on Saturday and then spend some time with Carly and who knows whats going on on Sunday. Next weekend is NYC parade and we are gonna have so much fun! There is obviously no midsummer festivities here as we are much more south than Finland is...We are hoping that we can spend next midsummer in Finland and I can show T the nightless night. But before that I need to get a job so that I can save for that trip! Keep your fingers crossed!
Hyvää Juhannusta!

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