Missing device

[urbpan]

In the middle of last week I misplaced my iPod at work. I went over the last places I had used it, narrowed it down to when I showed a picture of the puppy to a coworker. I was in my car when I had showed her the picture, so when I realized it was missing I searched my car--behind and below and beside the seats especially. I checked my desk three times, checked a couple surfaces where I could have conceivably left it. Finally when I had decided that one of my coworkers was a no good thief, I found my iPod where it has slid out of my pocket while I was driving a golf cart. It was undamaged on a paved area where it could easily have been run over by another vehicle.

When I was looking for it, I was most worried about my podcast--I use the iPod's voice memo function to record it.

Today I can't find it again, and now it seems that a neighbor has stolen it from my car. I hope I'm wrong and it turns us somewhere, but it doesn't seem like it's going to happen.

I haven't had it very long, but boy did I depend on that thing for a lot of different uses.

EDITED TO ADD: Aaaaand it was in my car, between the driver's seat and the middle thingie, where I'd already looked three times. Well, it was fun to test myself with existential despair over a small object anyway. Thanks for playing, universe, you win again.

Comments

[urb-banal.livejournal.com]

I am aware of how I no longer know any phone numbers. I am totally dependant on devices. I am registered with an employment agency for disabled workers and at a meeting a blind woman said, "Show me someone who is NOT dependant on technology to do their job!"

[plantmom.livejournal.com]

I had a discussion recently with a customer whose theory is that a lot of mental acuity is lost by being over dependant on technology, that the synapses actually stop firing as easily if they're not used as much. I work in a grocery store.Sometimes I cash, and I try to memorize the four-digit codes for produce as much as possible. It makes the process faster, exercises my brain, and it gives me something to get excited about ("Yes! I've memorized another code!"), in what otherwise could be a little boring.

[roaming.livejournal.com]

If you could now send me some of that finding things that aren't there juju, I'd appreciate it! I've lost my Oberon leather celtic embossed credit card holder. I was in the husband's car when I handed it to him. He says I didn't. It's nowhere. I've cancelled the cards, but I'd like the card holder.

I blame it all on pookahs.