Monday, April 21, 2025

Hubris

 From time to time I've often written about how I feel about technology and our inanimate objects ganging up on me, for no apparent reason everything mechanical and electrical seem to be ganging up against me well I'm in the middle of another techno storm and it's kind of freaking me out. The worst part of this techno storm came this afternoon and for some reason my power chair stopped working while I was in the reclined position. I didn't have my cell phone I was in the middle of the kitchen because actually I Was preparing dinner so is later than middle of the afternoon it was 4:30ish. I didn't have anyway to Signal anybody and all I can do is yell and scream. Eventually got one of my neighbors Armando who was walking by. I don't know this guy very well though I should we've lived here about the same amount time. It was a rough way to get to know the guy better. Anyway, I was able to direct him to find my cell phone it was on my bed and bring it in to me and is able to call a few people. By this point in time my technical group was off work it was about 5 minutes after 5:00 in the afternoon all the state employees have gone home. I did call my brother he was able to come over and between us be able to get my chair J-rigged and working again. I'm totally impressed with my brother as always he was able to get me going again whether he fixed it or not I'm not sure time will tell for that but he did give me permission to call him if I get stuck again before tomorrow morning. I spoke to my buddies over at u c a t who indicated they would work with me and see if they can get a solution for this problem worst case scenario they'll try to find another chair that I can borrow until my regular chair gets fixed or maybe they can figure out what's wrong with this one. Hopefully I can get this chair going until they're able to get to me tomorrow afternoon or morning whenever they get pull themselves away from their regular jobs to help me out. 


I'm not even sure if I'm going to be able to get this posted tonight for some reason all of my internet connections seem to be messed up. Took me quite a while to get this tablet I'm working with right now operationally connected to the internet that hopefully I can post this when it's time. Like I said it's a technical storm for some reason I'm getting the brunt of it right now I just hope my bed holds out and the chair Works through tomorrow morning so I can get myself dressed and such. I really depend on those power chairs to keep me going I'm not sure what I'm going to do when I run up against the wall and I can't depend on him anymore. I'm almost considering airing up the tires of my old manual chair and using it as my backup. I still have pretty good upper body arms for quadriplegic and before I stopped early using the manual chair I was able to push myself around fairly well at least locally and I wouldn't take it on the bus to try to take them getting back and forth in my apartment in bathroom and back again. I have to admit I've been pretty smart the last couple years having a backup chair as well as my regular chair and all hubris turned around and hit me on the butt to bring me back


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