Corner of Bourbon & Division

Amazing how quickly I became dependent on this tiny piece of tech. It started saying "No Signal" on Boxing Day. At first it was intermittent, then it became chronic with intermittent bursts of reception, but it's been dead for 48 hours now. I could still use the data features if I had access to wifi, and a lot of my apps are not network-dependent, so it was livable for a little while. Still, kind of defeats the purpose of a cell phone if I can't call or text or use my data plan, right?

My nose is rather out of joint about this. It's a new phone. It's the one I got to replace the one which had an unfortunate kayaking-related death back in August, which makes it less than six months old. My old iPhone 4s lasted four years without so much as a blip! I understand planned obsolescence is a thing, but this is ridiculous.

So I contacted Apple today, and the helpful tech walked me through some troubleshooting (aside from the troubleshooting I did on my own beforehand), which did nothing. He then instructed me to reset my phone to factory default... which killed it. Dead. So very dead. See, it turns out that if your phone can't get a signal, it can't reinitialise itself. *beats head on desk* So now I have nothing at all on my phone (annoying, as I liked having my calendar and my alarm clock still accessible, for instance).

The closest appointment they could give me? Tuesday afternoon. YIKES. I have to reschedule a vet appointment for it, to boot (grr). Also, it likely means that I won't have my phone for quite some time, if they decide to send it in for repairs. Amusingly, the helpful tech offered me a potentially earlier appointment in Pointe Claire. Uh, no thank you, dude. That is two hours away. When I said I guessed he must not be local, he confirmed my suspicions, and was rather startled when I told him Pointe Claire was in another province. :P

The only good news in all of this is that I actually got a landline about six weeks ago, so I'm not completely cut off from phone service the way I was the last time this happened. Eesh.

I'm still thinking about New Year's Resolutions. I think one of them may well be to get myself a paper address book, and a paper agenda, so that I'm not completely screwed by the absence of my phone anymore.

You know, you never hear about the Borg not getting a signal. I bet that would really fuck up the Collective.

Half the computer systems are down at work. Again. That means no access to anything I want to work on tonight, including email.

Gnarr.

My Scooba has inexplicably malfunctioned. Spent the better part of 45 minutes on the phone with tech support today, and they couldn't fix it either. They are sending me a replacement part which will get here in two weeks.

I am very sad, and also very behind on my floor washing, as a result.

Wah!