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My Love/Hate Relationship

 

I am musing about...

My Love/Hate Relationship with technology!

I am sure I am not alone.

Sometimes I wonder how I ever lived without it. Other times it is about all I can do to live with it!

Like yesterday. It was quite exasperating! Our printer had recently "bit the dust". I am taking a class and the printer is pretty valuable right now. So the other evening we got a new printer.

The next day was "set up time". It should have been "simple" but it was not. I needed to connect my printer via the HP App. In order to do that I needed a wireless connection. I was unable to access the wireless connection because the screen told me I first needed the HP App. Right. (That was what I was trying to do!)  After quite some time with tech support...they told me to just take it back. So we did.  We got a new one and hoped this one would connect to wireless the way it was supposed to. 

Then later on that evening, I came across a site where you could virtually try on glasses! Yep! How cool is that! You access your camera, look straight ahead and lala...there are the glasses. On your face. You turn your face and the glasses move with  you! You should try it. Was kind of fun:)

So, yes, in the same day...love and hate.

How many of you use Whatsapp? I LOVE our Whatsapp and the ability to "do life" virtually with our kids and grandkids! We do "Cousin Club with Grandma" on Zoom. Facetiming with some of my favorite faces ever and even occasional times of "cyber babysitting"  (for a short while) is part of life these days. Sweet pictures, clever, silly and interesting comments and precious videos pass back and forth in cyberland...and tend to land right into my happy heart! I honestly do not know what I would do without it (especially with our family living in 4 different time zones! For real!)

Yet we all know of the potential horrors, intrusions, temptations, time stealing realities, corruption, misuse, bullying, fears and concerns that are part of this technological age! And the exasperation!

So Lord, please help us as we live and do life in a wireless world. May we always be connected to you and your Spirit as you help us...day by techy day! 


                                              


  PS So the next day I fell in hate with tech once again. The new printer could not be recognized by the so called needed App. It was not part of it's register of available printers (too new I guess).Ugh!

 Ended up on the phone for a looong time with a man. From the Philippines. At first I felt so frustrated and impatient. Then I remembered to connect to Jesus. And now.....we are up and running (my printer and me).  And I kind of made a friend. Long distance. (He actually was able to remotely access my computer from the Philippines. Scary I know.) But he truly was helpful! Oh, how I love, I mean hate, I mean love/hate technology!!  :)


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