Identity Crisis...for my iPod?

     It's the existential question. Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Such deep and thoughtful questions, pondered by everyone at some point in their life.
    Sometimes a few times a day depending on what your job you're in.

    But I digress. Because this blog isn't about me. It's about my iPod.

   For you see, my iPod is having a major meltdown. A complete breakdown. An identity crisis of the extreme sort.

   It thinks it's a digital camera.

   Not a beloved electronic device of all my music. Not the bringer of the beat and rhythms of the soul.

  No, it has to believe it's a digital camera.

 And it's telling my PC this revelation. So, now it has my PC believing it's a digital camera and not a device of music.

  I didn't know my PC was so gullible. So prone to falling for anything some little electronic device decided to tell it. How disappointing. It must have been the flashy silver cover distracting it.

  I'm not sure when my iPod contemplated the meaning of the universe and decided it was so much more than a storage device. When it decided that it's grainy and not so great resolution photos qualified it as a camera but apparently it did and there's no convincing it otherwise.

  I plug the iPod into my computer, where it's supposed to sync my music up. But instead it erased most of my songs, leaving just the ones I had downloaded straight from iTunes. I'm missing 1400 songs--only some of my favorites---nothing frustrating there.

  But to top it off, when I plugged it in a second time to try to figure out what was going on, it loaded all my music from iTunes a second time onto itself. So now, my songs are on there twice. I can listen to all my music...twice...without hitting the repeat button. How clever of it to do that.

  So now it doesn't know what it wants to be. It's telling the computer it's a digital camera, there are no songs available if I try to access the device through my PC. But if I listen to my music, it's so nice to me and gives me everything in doubles.

   I just want it to go back to the way things use to be. Where I downloaded music onto my iPod and it stayed. Where I would synced it up with my computer and it would be pleasant and cooperate, not try to be something it's not. And it wouldn't try to think on it's own and tell me I need to listen to my songs twice in a row.
   Oh, how I miss those carefree and easy days when my iPod was just an iPod and it wasn't having an identity crisis.
    So if my computer guru is having trouble fixing my iPod, does that mean I need to take it to a psychologist? Perhaps it's childhood issues from when it was just a little Nano?
   Or perhaps my iPod has turned into a teenager. Which means I should just give up now, because a teenager is never wrong and knows everything. 
   Does Apple have a help line for iPod's and their identity crisis?
 
   Or is this a case, and here's my inner geek showing, Number 5 is ALIVE?
 
    Perhaps records were so much easier after all. :-) 

Welcome to the Future

      I saw a sign that boldly proclaimed in bright red letters, 'WELCOME TO THE FUTURE.'

      Since I could see pass the banner I figured they were right because a few seconds later I drove straight into it. My future. Amazing.
       It looked suspiciously a lot like my present.

       Sarcasm aside, the sign was in front of a cell phone store. Apparently, their cell phones are from the future because if you went in there and bought one, then you're using super cool technology, almost like the Jetson's. Of course, back when that cartoon was drawn, I think people were hoping that by this time in history we would have flying cars, robots, and intergalactic adventures. Mmmm, we're close. We have an animated lizard that sells us car insurance and tons of sci fic movies to warn us of the dangers of making robots.

        Don't ya know that if you make robots too smart that eventually they take over the world? It's incredible, but robots of the future are nasty. I know this as fact because all the movies say so.
        Apparently, they aren't lovesick Rosies that do all your cooking, cleaning, scrubbing, and menial labor work so you can shop more.

       No wonder the robots go crazy, they got tired of cleaning and cooking. The science fiction writers never go into details of why the robots decide to take over and we always thought it was just for world domination .     Nope, it's just like I thought, scrubbing the toilet one too many times will drive you insane.

       I love technology though. Hero hottie bought an iPod touch earlier this year and between the four of us it's always in use. When I was a kid, I would make cassettes of my favorite music, then it was CD's, now I just make Playlists. All my favorite music with just a touch. Some time in the future they won't even sell music CD's.
      Of course, I should worry about the Rise of the iPods. Because when they decide to take over the world we will all be forced to listen to elevator music, or worse...Britney Spears.  All the time. Urghh.

     We make such a big deal about the future because of fear. Imagine for a moment that you knew nothing bad would happen in your future or in the futures of your loved ones, would you worry so much about it? Would you even think about it? Wouldn't it be easier to live in the present?
      'Don't Worry, Be Happy' could be true because we wouldn't be worrying about success, buying groceries, braces, and raising decent human beings.  We would focus on our present. On the moment.
  
 Instead....
  
     Those poor science fiction writers, they must just stare at their computers or their iPods, worrying about the day their devices develop the ability to laugh like an evil madman and take over the world. Wa ha ha.
      I stare at my lovely children and worry about the day they turn into...scary movie music here...TEENAGERS.
      If age ten is the movie trailer than I think I'll pass on the film. (Grin)

     There are plenty of famous and not so famous people that wrote all kinds of quotes about not worrying. Such as Benjamin Franklin (He was in that famous group). He wrote, 'Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.'
 
     Silly guy. I don't worry about what may never happen, I spend countless minutes thinking about things I know will happen. And the last piece of advice about staying in the sunlight...he was just warning us against vampires.

    And then there are people in the not so famous group, like hero hottie, who tells me not to worry....
while he's secretly worrying (at a DEFCON 1 level,) about the fate of everything.  :)
     
    Anyway, the future is unknown; isn't written in stone: yet is determined by every past choice we have ever made. No wonder people worry about the future.
  
    But I guess I'll try not to worry too much, after all 'tomorrow is a new day.' And if I get too bored living in the present I can always drive pass the cell phone store where they're always ushering in the future with a bold and bright banner.