This goes back to an earlier post talking about being addicted to the computer and email. I have a serious habit. From the moment my little eyes pop open in the morning to just before I shut them again in the evening, I am jonesing for email.
If it doesn’t come into my Inbox in a steady stream, I start to click that Send/Receive icon – sometimes repeatedly…thinking that I must have just missed downloading something important.
The BlackBerry was supposed to help me get away from my office and in a way it has. I can go to coffee in the morning or run over to my mom’s or out to the store and not feel like I am going to miss an important email. But I do constantly look at it to see if the little red light is flashing.
Yesterday my email host was having problems and I didn’t receive email for several hours. This was almost too much to bear. But I tried to fill my time doing something productive. I had already finished my actual paying work for the day by the time this disturbance occurred, so I decided to try to record some promos for transcription using the new DVD/VHS recorder-player I picked up “out of the box” at Best Buy for a killer deal. Of course, I had already had to buy a new remote to make it work and that afternoon, I then spent the next hour and a half downloading manuals to the player/recorder, printing out the specific pages referring to hooking up the TV to the recorder and digging out the TV manual.
Nothing seemed to work – I tried Line 1 – then Line 2. I flipped each switch this way and that. Pressed a multitude of buttons in various order. Then I thought the problem must be that I had my Bose system in the middle of it. It wasn’t until I had exhausted every possible combination of connections, switches and buttons that the fine print finally popped out at me. “Note: The DVD/VCR cannot record programs if you have cable with no cable box.”
Sigh….
The good news is that by the time I figured out that the only thing my “new” DVD/VCR combo will do is play old VHS tapes and DVDs, the little red light on my BlackBerry was flashing again…email was flowing!
Connie
You are not alone in your email jonesing.
Best always,
– Peter