What could be worse than my third technological casualty during my stay here in Italy? The fourth, which almost happened! When I was cooking a great sauce for my angel hair pasta tonight, I tripped over my power cord plugged into my Apple Powerbook. It wasn’t good. When I plugged it back in, it started clicking. So I took off the European power adapter and put the American one on and then plugged that into a European converter I have; still clicking. In all of those stages it wouldn’t power the laptop either. It was gone.
Then came the other scare for the night (besides the midterm that I have tomorrow in my Political Science class): my iPod wouldn’t work. It said that it didn’t have any charge left in the battery. This was the major problem with this generation of the iPod; in fact, Apple had to settle a lawsuit because of it. What was strange with this one was that I’d listened to it a half an hour before and it had a great battery. After a while I was lucky and giving it a jump-start from my ever-depleting laptop battery got it going. Want to know the only good thing about not being able to charge an iPod in Italy? Half of the TCU group has our iPods with us, so chargers aren’t in short supply either!
I’m not worrying too much about these. Once I figure out how to get a charger, things will be great. Until then, however, I’m running on fumes. So, don’t expect tons of updates on the site until I get more stability with my technology!
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