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The technology time investment

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 17/11/18 18:00
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The garage door broke again yesterday!

For anybody who knows me directly or who follows this blog, you’ll know that this has been the bane of my f*****g life.

It’s 10 years old this garage door but it has broken 4,5,6 7, 8 times a year in that 10 years and it’s a double garage door that weighs 2 tonnes (or it feels like it) and when it breaks you’re stuck in there.

My garage doesn’t have another door, only that one.

So, I got home from football training on Friday night, soaking wet and freezing cold, only for my wife to tell me that the garage door was broken again.

Ludicrously it depressed me – that is a first world problem if ever I heard one.

But it highlights the problem with convenience products that are technological or electrical.

I have 2 iMacs at home, one upstairs and one downstairs that I rarely get to go on myself, but the oldest one is 7 years old and the newest one is 5 and they’re just about ready to break.

They were great when we first got them and really cool but now they freeze and stop and don’t work as well as they should. They’ve had a lot of time spent on them by someone who knows what they’re doing (I could do it but I just can’t find the space) and now they’ve become more of a pain that a tool.

It’s the same with your phone isn’t it?

It’s the same with your Wi Fi.

I now stop and think before I dive straight into a technological product because I know there is going to be an intangible amount of time that I have to spend learning how to use it and then fixing it when it’s not working and that will distract me from the quiet time I have to myself or the time I have to do the things I like.

The prospect of changing your bike computer these days or even your watch is not a joy and it fills me with fear and loathing at the amount of time it’s going to take to set something up.

I’m going to bite the bullet and change the garage door for a manual one on wires that I can lift up and down.

If it breaks I’ll still be able to move it and it means that my bike won’t get stuck in the garage or my wife won’t get stuck in the garage or my car won’t get stuck in the garage and hopefully I won’t come home to that type of response again (well I probably will for something else)

 

Blog Post Number: 1828

 

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