I Am Not a Happy Camper

Rant time! Because this has been one of the worst days this year. I am seriously on the verge of swearing my head off because of my computer. Everyone should know by now that I do not have good luck with electronics. It's a love hate relationship. I love my computer, but it does everything in it's power to spite me. Let's do a brief recap of my day.

1) Last night I was using a site that my friend suggested to me to watch online episodes of Doctor Who, since Netflix doesn't have the whole seventh season. This is when I started having trouble. It was basically a list of sites to try, but a lot of them redirected me to one, which was asking for my credit card for a 'free' account. I kept searching and found two that seemed to work. This morning, however, I turned my laptop on to get a pop up asking me to do a backup. I've never had this before and knew it was a virus, so I just closed it. Later, while opening up a new tab on Google Chrome, I found out that instead of Google, it was Bing. I did everything to get rid of it. Seriously, I have been working on it for hours. I've been to half a dozen sites and forums with people who have the same problem, but either their solutions don't work, or their solutions are to abandon Chrome and use Safari or Mozilla. The problem is, Mozilla is also messed up.

2) After abandoning my laptop for a while to go eat dinner and do some Christmas shopping, I came home and prepared to wrap my uncle's present. Only to find that the woman didn't give me a gift receipt. After a specifically asked for one. The idiocy of some people baffles me.

3) So after fighting with my computer for another couple hours, I took another break to get myself an orange. I opened the box, only to find four rotten oranges that I'm almost certain had not been rotten when I bought them. It was disgusting.

4) And to top it all off, earlier in the day my mom was having troubles with my dad's ipad and getting it to sync with the computer. The ipad has never been synced before, and we have a brand new computer with Windows 8, so obviously it was going to be trouble. I downloaded itunes, expecting that to work, as it should. And of course it didn't. It didn't recognize that there was an Ipad plugged in, and neither did the computer recognize it for at least five minutes.


I don't understand modern technology. I thought everything was supposed to be getting easier, more user friendly. But I'm beginning to see that the old DOS computers, the ones with the black screen that you have to type your request into, were much easier. Everything now is riddled with viruses and convoluted solutions. Not to mention I'll probably have to pay over a hundred dollars to get everything cleaned up, plus another outrageous amount of money for a firewall that'll only last a year before it starts giving me popups to remind me to renew it.

If anyone knows of any way to fix any of my computer problems, please speak up. My head is actually beginning to hurt because of how frustrated and angry I am.