Apple Crapple

I have never been big into tech items.  As a boy when my brother got Darda tracks and remote controlled cars I got Lincoln Logs.  As an adult as all of my peers got new phones and Tassimo machines I bought knives and guns.  From the age 16 up to about two months ago I had owned a grand total of three phones.  All three were Nokias with buttons and two of which still work perfectly well.  The second of the three wasn't a strong swimmer or it would probably be only two phones I ever had.  I also still have my first and only laptop, a dell, which I got to go off to college in 2005.  When Kristin and I got married my idea of a new tv was a $50 jvc tube tv that came with a converter box and rabbit ears off craigslist.  I also still have my one walkman and (yes that's the one that uses casette tapes) and my only gaming console was a nintendo 64.  That pretty much sums up all of my tech ownership in the first 27 years.

My Nokia from 2009 being put away until the day my iPhone breaks

Needless to say it was a hard pill to swallow when I was informed by school that I would need to purchase a new iPad air, a new macbook pro, and a new iPhone.  For those of you that are counting, that's a decent dirt bike, a really nice bike, about 5 new guns, or 30 new knives.  For some apple crap!  You've got to be kidding me.  Don't those phones only last like 2 years, and they don't even have buttons.

Prior to the iPhone addition

The past two months have had a steep learning curve.  The macbook and iPad came at the start of school, but I was able to cling to my wonderful old Nokia until just a few weeks ago.  So far I have mixed reviews.  The battery life on the laptop is wonderful.  My old laptop was 9 years old and so was the battery.  Which meant it had about the same life expectancy of a snowball in you know where.  If you unplugged it from the living room and flat out sprinted you might make it to the bedroom outlet before it cut off.  The cloud, however, I'm not loving so much.  All of our professors only email us their power point presentations at the beginning of class so I can't print them out to take notes on them.  Therefore I decided it would be great to get the One Note program and insert the presentations there and take notes along the side as we went.  Bad idea.  It seemed to work well for the first two weeks until one weekend before a test I noticed that they weren't syncing from my laptop to my iPad.  When we tried to log into the One Note account they synced real quick, but not in the right direction.  Instead of there being notes on the laptop and nothing on the iPad, there was nothing on both.  Oh how lovely they match now.  Upon calling tech support we kept getting the "ooh hmm let me transfer you to a manager" then click.  Finally after 3 times of calling back and getting that same routine with different people I got the picture.  The notes were irretrievably gone and no one wanted to tell me.  Suffice it to say I don't use note apps anymore.

The whole trifecta

The iPad and phone have gone slightly better.  They don't quite sync to my calender as they should, but I'm a little gun shy about the whole syncing thing at this point so I'll live with it.  The iPad has been nice, but Kristin already had one so this one is slightly superfluous.  Also, one teacher has decided that the easiest way to draw teeth is with a stylus one the iPad.  As if my drawing skills weren't limited enough.  He emailed me after the first assignment and asked if there was anything he could do to help as my drawings were quite horrendous and needed improvement.  Umm sorry dude. I'm not really sure that the iPad and dollar tree stylus are the limiting factors here, but they certainly don't help.

oh yeah that totally looks just like a tooth

Anyway I'm still trudging on in the face of adversity and learning to tap tap taperoo the little keypads.  I don't think I'm at the point where I will get an apple logo tattoo, but I'm surviving.

yes some people are this crazy

~Buzzy Out.