Technology costs

Technology is a wonderful thing and I am sure that Humanity does profit from using it ..... but not in this house!!!

We have had an interesting fortnight and, at this moment in time, we are without some of the Technological Equipment we have became used to round here.

As you may, or may not , know we changed our ISP as ability to use the internet was pretty poor.  We searched around our local area and found that BT had the best signal and, although we didn't have Infinity in our area, we decided to go for it.  The signal was intermittent and, much to our dismay, when the Broadband signal goes  - so does the TV!  We complained and were told that it was because we were not on Infinity, which had miraculously appeared in our area.  We paid the extra and were welcomed on board - no students using modern technology in sight.

So we suffer intermittent 'no signal' - usually during the last five minutes of the programme!!

Last week PJ's phone started to play up so it is now in the 'hospital' and he is using one of those 'olde' phones that are JUST A PHONE - remember them?!  lol

On Monday evening I tried to access the data on my external hard drive which, I didn't check first, had become slightly unconnected from my laptop.  oops!  
Or should that be OOPS!
I have managed to download a program to retrieve my lost data but it is taking so long - then my laptop overheats and switches off.  So I start again .....
Modern technology!  
I feel that my whole life is on that little box,  I am trying not to think of all the IMPORTANT spreadsheets, documents, photos etc, and that I just HAVE to get as much as the data saved onto my NEW external hard drive. 
Today I am asking myself what I did before all this Modern Technology arrived .....  I am still alive and everything is as it should be ...... just that little black box is not working ..... shall I die because of it? 
 No! 
I shall just have to sit in the garden and stitch ..... 
......when I worked that is how I dreamed of Retirement ...
.... that was before Modern Technology!!!