technology

I have to be at work for 5, which means I need to be home by 4 since it takes me 15 minutes to walk there and I still need to shower and get dressed and find some semi amusing entertainment. I say semi amusing because I'm working at a Chinese takeaway (that isn't my parents, but they do own one) and they are not too busy but if I bring something too interesting then I'll neglect the few customers that do come in and feel really bad since I'm virtually being paid to sit around. This is actually a great job, but I don't like it too much purely because it lacks any type of challenge. I need something stimulating and challenges me, mentally. That's why even when I worked at my parents, which is significantly more busy, I was still bored brainless. I think I need to write this quickly since I really really really want to eat and it also means I'll need to be back a little earlier so I have time to cook and eat.

So, technology. I think I do this a lot to change the topic and relate it to the title, but I'm really just writing how I'd normally talk. You can see how people may not like talking to me now, don't you? This is probably why I also only seem to make friends with shy people, since I'm pretty much talking 90% of the time and since they're shy, they wouldn't even talk that much anyways so I've filled the gaps. Make that 95%. Ok, moving on.

By technology, I mean most gadgets that we take for granted and use day in day out and only realise how important they are when we break or lose them and are gadgetless for a while. So the working gadgets that I currently own are:
- an iPod nano (4th? generation, I got in 5 years ago and it's small and touchscreen less but I love it)
- an iPhone 3GS (I'm not sure this can really be classed as working since it will just randomly shut down for no particular reason and not turn back on until I charge it)
- a desktop computer
- an ASUS laptop (my cousin helped me choose it and you could build the insides like extra long battery life etc.) with a little dvd drive (since the laptop doesn't have one)
I know, you're bitterly disappointed, right? Most teens my age own quite a bit more and have iPads etc. but I'm working on it.

There's a reason I emphasised working technology since I have a tendancy to damage my things and not be too careful with them. Despite this, we (my mum, who pays) never get insurance. I wanted to talk about this since it seems that my headphones are dying now, which is really sad since I don't have any decent spares and I listen to music ALL the time, plus I'll be travelling to London for 3 days and I'm going to Southend tomorrow, which makes my iPod imperative. It's on par with carrying money and water and keys around. So, this is the fun bit, in the last 2 years, these are the things I've broken:
- 5 kindle keyboard wifi (the old ones without the paperwhite or backlight or touchscreen and they only sell the 3G version now and I think they might be stopping them soon) (don't worry, there was 1 year warranty so the subsequent 4 were free then the warranty expired and I haven't bought a new one yet)
- an iPhone 4 (technically, this isn't broken. I smashed the screen but the phone actually works, except for the glass kept falling out and it wasn't too safe)
- an iPhone 4S (this actually wasn't me, at ALL. I was holding my phone and carrying a tonne of stuff and my little brother was carrying nothing and asks my mum to grab more stuff and she couldn't carry it all so shoved some to me and made me drop my phone and smash the screen THEN I kept using it and one night after an 'incident' I was being deliberately irritating and provaocative towards dear father and he got angry and smashed my phone, so none of this was me)
- 2 blackberry cruve 2850 (I think thats the right model number, it's the oldest, cheapest, rubbishest one they still sell and made completely of plastic. The first time I think I got too much water into it so I got a new one on warranty and about 6 weeks ago, around the week of my first exam in the second week of May so yes, about 6 weeks ago, I got really angry after a phone conversation with my mum and threw my phone onto the kitchen tile - in my defence I'd done this before, slightly less agressively with my last phone and that didn't break, it just went a bit funny, but no, this one broke and I haven't really had a phone since until about 2 weeks ago I got the rubbish, broken iPhone 3Gs, to be honest, I really enjoyed not having a phone)
If you look at that, it's not that bad. I mean 5 kindles seems like a lot, but let me explain and start with the fact that kindles, or that model at least, are really fragile and easy to break. So the first one broke when I dropped it on my wooden floor and it landed on a corner, the screen went all dodgy and wasn't usuable (that's how all my kindles broke, as in the messed up screen). The second broke when I had a really heavy school bag. I kept my kindle in the front pocket and books behind but due to the shape of the bag it landed face first and the weight of the books proved too much for kindle number 2. The third, or fourth, I don't know which way round these two are, wasn't my fault. I was just using my kindle of the month when it suddenly started to restart or turn off for no reason. This happened a lot of times so I called up customer service, I honestly can't think of anything I did to break that one. The fourth, was partly my fault. Ok, I think this is the third and the previous was the fourth and the fourth actually last 2 months as opposed to the previous 3. So the third, I still hadn't found a nice kindle case so I was carrying it in my bag, sans case. I also carry water EVERYWHERE with me and I was in London that day. I assume that all the jolting and quick moving meant that items in my bad collided and when I pulled my kindle out you could see the place of impact with the water bottle that destroyed the screen. My last kindle lasted over a year which I was quite proud of. I have to explain, by the time I got to this kindle, I decided to get a case and eventually found a kindle sock. So when I was using it, it didn't have any protection from me. I left my kindle on the floor it seems that night, so I decided to pick it up so I wouldn't break that one. I put it on the end of my bed then reached down to grab something from under my bed. My duvet was draped over the edge so I pulled it up and it covered the kindle so when I kneeled on the bed to get the box I heard a crack. That was the end of my having a kindle. After this riveting explanation, you can see I'm just a bit uncareful and accident prone, more than anything, so it's not too bad.

Strangely enough, my mum agreed to get me a new one a few weeks before exams (when the last kindle broke) but I decided to wait until after so I'd have one less distraction. It's now the end of exams and I haven't worked up the nerve to ask for one yet. I know I want an iPad so I think the kindle can wait since you can just download a kindle app and I can also access my iBooks, so I think I'll wait until a new model comes out. If I get an iPad I don't particularly want an iPhone 5 and there are others that are cheaper with better technology (phone-wise) so that's not too bad. But I really want some new apple headphones, although I'm not sure of the design, maybe get some of the old ones from someone since I can't not be able to listen to music.

The air con is starting to make me really cold now so I think I'll go home and eat and write my remaining 4 after work tonight. Oh, and I meant to say that I have started about 3 or 4 posts but got distracted so they'll be up and I will find time at some point to make up the 39 or something. I might do some writing on the train or something.