Yesterday, the venerable Chicago Tribune was unable to print thousands of newspapers due to a 'glitch.' The computer upgrade they ran over the weekend performed well in testing, but not in production. So newspaper delivery fellows all over Chicago were delivering a partial edition Monday and replacing it with a fuller Tuesday paper.
But, people tolerate it. It's just a computer crash, a glitch, nothing serious. Not a city-wide power failure, which would have been much worse, in July's heat.
Also yesterday, I was half naked on the doctor's examination table, hooked up to the EKG probes, when the EKG machine ran out of paper. The nurse added more, and the machine made up for it by eating too much paper, creating a paper jam during my routine physical. Good thing they had already taken my blood pressure.
Later I sauntered into the pharmacy asking for the prescription my doctor faxed over from her computer during my exam. No order from the doctor. Shopped around, read some magazines, asked again. "No. Nothing from your doctor. We have no faxes."
Uh! Wait! It's .... a paper jam!
Think about all the ways technology has become commonplace, and be glad for the days when technology does it's job well. Remember, it's not the end of the world when you can't print an envelope, your Internet connection goes down, or your computer freezes. Just roll with it and be glad for all the stuff in the world that does work! And be glad you're not naked on an examination table hooked up to nine electrodes when the paper jam occurs.
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