Electronics hate me.

One. Two. Three. That's right. Three. It's the magic number and I don't know if it's the last. I've had three electronics losses in the past week.



First.

I take my camera everywhere I go just in case there is a Kodak moment. I like having it. However, it has taken a few spills within the past 5 months. Two times in a row, I set the timer on top of a flight of stairs and ran to get in the picture and sure enough, it fell down an entire flight of stairs. But it still worked. Past a few drops, it decided to not work the other day when my girlfriend and I were at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, OH - prime photo opps. Fortunately, she had her camera with her too. Fortunately also, I bought a "Drop Warranty" and Best Buy is taking care of it for free. Woot woot.

Second.

Sometimes I use my Apple computer as a drummer at church. It keeps better time than all of our drummers and is good for backups when 3 drummers fall out (I like them better than my computer though!). So I set my computer up on stage and tightened the music stand as tight as I could. Then I ventured to the closet to get some cables and I heard it. "Smack. Crunch. Topple." I didn't move for about 2 minutes because I knew what had happened. Sorry, less drama. I went to check out what happened and saw that my computer not only fell off the music stand, but fell past the stage onto the concrete ground. The screen was busted. The metal casing was bent and broken. But for some reason, I felt like this was a great moment to be an example to students and didn't really make it a huge deal. "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." The computer was on still so I grabbed a monitor from my office and hooked it up and no data was harmed. Just physical damage. After the weekend, I took it in to the Apple Store and discovered that it was not covered by the warranty that I had. So the dude walks in the back room for 8 minutes. He comes out and told me that the same thing happened to him at his church and he decided to fix it for FREE. That is some serious grace! I felt weird praying for God's help, but I guess God knows what He's doing.

Third.

I just got back from a wedding in Colorado. During the driving of the trip, I offered my iPod for music in the car. The next day we all got Gatorades and the driver thought he closed the lid and put his Gatorade in the console on its side and a few minutes later, we realize that Lake Gatorade has formed and "Rico", my iPod, was going for a swim. Not cool. It does not respond to anything now. Not sure what the status is on this one.

My friends, that is why electronics hate me.