Computer Woes

Finally back to posting non-Italy related content.  I found the whole alphabet a pretty easy device for having something to write about every day.

The night of Thanksgiving, I had a perfect storm of irritation with my computer and iPhone.  I was trying to run an update of iOS on my phone, and it crashed in the middle, then I could not boot up my computer and it had erased all the data on my phone, rendering it totally not usable.  I spent about an hour restoring my computer from backup (and I will just add that there is nothing better in the computer world than backing your shit up on a regular basis and if you aren't doing it yourself, you are going to pay someone a freaking fortune to do it for you when the computer crashes).  Then I still couldn't get it to update my phone.  Thankfully I was able to do it the next day.  At a certain point though, I was pretty certain that I was going to have to buy a new computer and a new phone.  I honestly don't know why my computer, which isn't that old, has such problems sometimes.  Though every Mac that I have had has had some sort of problem at some point, but it's usually a physical problem, like they won't power up, won't reboot, or just are out of date.  This computer is now over three years old, and it certainly allows me to reboot it all the time, and until this week, it didn't have a problem where when it was booting up, not even recognizing the OS.

This computer has made me anxious all year.  I remember in January, the first time it started locking up for no reason, and me restoring it from backup.  Taking it into the Apple store a few times.  I have run fixes on it.  The guy at the Apple store completely restored the whole operating system from scratch.  I keep thinking at some point, I want to get a new computer just because this one makes me so anxious that it is going to stop working at some important point.  As it is now, I am watching the clock, because sometimes if it's been on for over an hour, it locks up for no apparent reason (though at the Apple store, they said it didn't appear to have hardware problems).  And now that it's out of warranty...

It seems like things just are not built to last sometimes, and there are faults built into electronics so we'll have to turn around and buy new ones every few years.  I am certainly not going to join some no electronics society, but I find it frustrating both in how things break and also how quick I am to just junk something and buy a new one.  I think a lot about all the things that I end up throwing away, and how I can reuse them or resell them.  For instance, I always buy salads to bring into work, and the salads all come in packaging that I end up throwing away.  It might be able to be recycled, but then I'd have to clean it, and how easy is that to do at work, particularly when I'm already being lazy at work.  So lately I have been making my own salads in reusable tupperware, and I feel like that is already doing something.  But I could do more.  But I am resigned that I will be having to buy a new computer at some point in the next year.