Technology Fails Me.

Not me.  I prefer to use the remote control.  JK JK.

It's been one of those weeks months with me and technology.  Of course this happens as I am in process of moving so I can't respond to the moving company's emails, look up how to register my car in a new county, or post witty commentary on the move to Facebook.  In no specific order, here is a list of May/June's technology fails:

DVR - My DVR and TV have played nicely for almost an entire year without a problem.  Sometime in May, they decided that they no longer like each other.  Anytime I try to watch anything in HD (including on demand and recorded shows), the DVR box flickers with the "DVI" error and the TV adjusts resolution.  Some days I can't even get through a full episode of 16 and Pregnant without this occuring but other days it's flawless.  Maybe the DVR is sick of all the crap that I watch?

Dell Laptop - I was a sophomore/junior in college when laptops started becoming mandatory for students.  At the time, they told us to expect the life of a laptop to be about 2 years (if you were lucky).  I have owned my current personal laptop for approximately 4 years this fall.  It was a birthday gift to me from my boyfriend at the time and I was so touched that someone would spend so much money on a gift for me that I've taken extra good care of it.  I have never spilled anything on it.  I have never dropped it.  Except for the occasional Starbucks trip, it has stayed in my apartment mostly.  Over the last year, it's started having problems.  First the battery stopped holding a charge.  Then I started getting a lot of "disk checking" when I started up.  Now it's overheating.  I can use it for approximately a half hour at a time before it starts a shutdown cycle.  You call it inconvenient.  I call it effective time management.

iPhone - I went to a information security training last week and now I'm convinced that my iPhone has been hacked.  Symptoms?  Sporatic alert tones.  Dropped calls.  Failure to send/receive text messages.  Drained battery while I'm not using it.  When I shared this with Matthew, he made the same smirking noise that he makes when I inform him that I think I have diabetes/shingles/malaria and told me that it's more probable that I've downloaded a buggy app.  He does know my affinity for free apps.  (My current favorite is "Paper'd").

Work Voicemail - Can someone please explain to me how I never ever receive voicemail messages and the week that I receive THREE very important ones is the week that my voicemail stops working.  Dial number.  "Welcome, Megan!  Please enter your password."  Enter passcode.  "Please hold."  Busy signal.  Hang up.  Dial number again.  "Welcome, Megan!  Please enter your password."  Enter previous passcode.  "This is not your password.  Please enter password."  Rinse, repeat.  Luckily, this was easily fixed from FIVE help desk communications.  Problem?  My passcode started with a zero.  Why did the system even let me change it to that if it couldn't handle it?!

Random work software - There is one piece of software in particular that I have not mastered.  Things I've done just this past week that required outside support to resolve?  Locked myself out of it.  Submitted a time sheet for the wrong date and couldn't delete it.  Pretty much the only thing I have been consistent with is the string of expletives that I say while I'm using it. 

Given my major in college and work experience, I feel like a mechanic who has a problem with every car they own.  This list doesn't even include the random other things (like my conference call number at the office, my pharmacy rewards, an outlet in my bedroom) that aren't working.