It’s bound to happen, our technologies fail. Our plans do not go as expected. 

While trying to fix my brothers computer, I screwed it up to the point of unusable. I loathe windows machines, such stupid, stupid ornery buggers.  So today, i figured I’d get up early and  try and fix the dang thing. I couldn’t even figure out how to operate his remote situation… he only has 5 different ones. After a couple of hours of struggling and swearing, I called someone much smarter than I. Zak. Thank goodness for great friends. Zak and I hung out, talked and reinstalled drivers. We got my brother’s computer working at least as crappily as before. 

But, so heading back to the house I saw I could maybe make it to the cabin before the freezing dark came to the mountains. Of course, the iphone was being a little punk, too. No calls for spaceman.  At my brother’s place, I got caught up in trying to fix his xbox, then breaking it immediately after. Nice one. Red ring. At least it’s as broken as it was when I started. We were pretty excited though for a minute.

So I decided to stay at the parent’s one more night, in order to leave early tomorrow for my favorite place. Hopefully the traffic isn’t deadly (californians are impressed with snow and go to the mountains to ogle it, driving badly). So I popped open my orange macbook to just check email, and the parental’s wifi wasn’t working. At least my fails weren’t just Microsoft. Multiple products and platforms. Whee! I had to just leave and resort to a simpler technology. 

Burritos.  They got the burrito right. 

Sometimes the technology just keeps failing. Those are the days you shouldn’t go onto icy mountain roads and try and install chains on the side of the road. I’m just saying. 

Don’t get me wrong there are plusses. 

Todd wants to take Zak and I out to a sushi dinner at his favorite place. 

On my brother’s media center I found an old plaque from our high school animation program for a film that he made called “Don’t Be Trapped By Alcoholism.” This shows a pretty serious and awesome sense of rony and humor. My brother takes great pride in thinking he’s an alcoholic.

As much as doing tech support for the family can be a pain, they need it and I love them. So why not.

I get to hang out one more night with my family.

I probably won’t drive off any cliffs tonight.

Now I am sitting in a starbucks drinking a triple soy latte and working on my writing anyway. It’s all good.

Failing is part of the game, right?  

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