The Vintage Reader

Here are some things I don't miss about my job in educational technology: the education, and the technology. Particularly the latter. However, I have to say that technology at the office was NEVER as difficult as it is at home. For example, here at home my power pack has quit working, so I'm working off the battery on my laptop, and I have no idea how long this will last before I have to do something about it. Like order a new power pack... or a new laptop. I should have another couple of hours, anyway.

But it wouldn't matter, because even when I had power, I couldn't get any music to play--something about the way I've got Firefox and Windows Media Player and Live365 configured completely prevents me from playing Live365 on this laptop unless I download and install iTunes, which I haven't already done because I don't really have the memory for more than one media player on this machine. I finally gave up and went down to rescue my Admiral AM radio from the dining room, where it's been gathering dust, and brought it up and plugged it in--and found that it has a persistent hum that actually--get this--made the baby grab both his ears and squawk. So--no music, no laptop. Arggh.