Zen and the Art of Mac Maintenance

Well, this conflict with technology is a fresh frustration in my mind this week because my hard drive completely died and erased everything off my macbook. I can look back on it as a learning experience of what type of person Phaedrus would link me to. I had all the signs of a romantic during my technological crisis of obtaining the "white screen of death" on my new macbook pro. Of course, I was instantly stressed out and incapable of figuring out any way to repair my faulty possession, in which I had placed so much of my trust. I know nothing about technology and was too afraid to try anything on my own for fear of digging it into a deeper grave. So I whipped out my trusty cell phone, which, somehow, worked despite my electronic eradicating super power, and called my boyfriend. Phaedrus would say that Keith has a classic view towards technology; he respects its power and enjoys its many functions. He was there in no time, equipped with only a pocket knife and a nerdy excitement to start the surgery on my beautiful baby. Being a Windows user, he had no prior experience in fixing a Mac, but, after a little bit of research, he was plunging into the open carcass of my newly deceased laptop. Meanwhile, I was in the corner hugging my knees and rocking back and forth. I guess Phaedrus is right; I need to realize that my computer is more than just a pretty little notebook that I can boss around and stuff every bit of my life into. It is just a bunch of wires and screws and circuits and bolts. If I want to be happy with technology I shouldn't run away from it just because it is not serving my immediate needs. I did exactly what Jon does with his bike when something goes haywire; I put it in the hands of someone that I thought was more capable, but by doing that I could have mistakenly put it into the hands of someone with testosterone and a pocket knife. That wasn't the case this time; Keith did not do any harm to my laptop, but I would have been a lot more zen if I had known anything at all about the inner workings of my own laptop.