Waiting for Godot's Exorcist
Apr. 1st, 2012 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogGodot, you will recall, is the name I gave my new tablet last month. My tablet which, I have scientifically concluded, is possessed.
That's about the only explanation I can come up with for a device that is so awesomely cool and yet so able to frustrate the bejeezuses (bejeezi?) out of me.
Sometime last week, I'd shlepped it around with me for close to a day and a half- reading Margaret Atwood on it, listening to some of the tunes that Clippy stuck on there a few weeks back, and the usual puttering with emails and such in between- and apparently I drained the battery. So I put it in to dock and charge, waited a few seconds, and.... nothing.
I waited a few minutes, and.... the same. Then they became hours and I got nervous. I bypassed the dock and did a direct-connect of charger to the base of the tablet itself. Still nada. Yet by the following morning, it was all charged up and ready to go. The moral I took from it was, always leave it in the dock, charging, when not in use.
That worked fine until last night. On Friday, I'd taken it on a totally useless set of rounds with me where I never even got it out of my briefcase, but I was a good boy and plugged it back in to give it a good charge before going to use it again.
Turned it on. Zippo. Plugged it back in. Geshphincto. Double-checked that the outlet-adapter combo was putting out power. Green light on the side of the dock. Shit. (Well, didn't, because most of this was going on around 2 this morning when I had non-shit-related wakies.) Finally decided to leave it charging and to try again in the morning.
When I still got nothing, I resolved take kid, kaboodle and kharger (which, like iPhone cords, doubles as the USB to PC-Land) down the hall to at least see if I could access its drive through my laptop.... whereupon the sumbitch promptly turned itself back on.
I do not understand these Droids, Obi-Wan. Can you not use them when they're plugged in, charging? Is there some magical way of checking how charged they are (like the red-lightning-bolt-red-to-green-battery icons that display on the iPhone during its regeneration)? Or has the ghost of our former home's owner, who moved here with us 18 years ago, just decided she likes reading the books on there?
It's all got me swinging. And, at this rate, my head will be spinning faster than Linda Blair's.
That's about the only explanation I can come up with for a device that is so awesomely cool and yet so able to frustrate the bejeezuses (bejeezi?) out of me.
Sometime last week, I'd shlepped it around with me for close to a day and a half- reading Margaret Atwood on it, listening to some of the tunes that Clippy stuck on there a few weeks back, and the usual puttering with emails and such in between- and apparently I drained the battery. So I put it in to dock and charge, waited a few seconds, and.... nothing.
I waited a few minutes, and.... the same. Then they became hours and I got nervous. I bypassed the dock and did a direct-connect of charger to the base of the tablet itself. Still nada. Yet by the following morning, it was all charged up and ready to go. The moral I took from it was, always leave it in the dock, charging, when not in use.
That worked fine until last night. On Friday, I'd taken it on a totally useless set of rounds with me where I never even got it out of my briefcase, but I was a good boy and plugged it back in to give it a good charge before going to use it again.
Turned it on. Zippo. Plugged it back in. Geshphincto. Double-checked that the outlet-adapter combo was putting out power. Green light on the side of the dock. Shit. (Well, didn't, because most of this was going on around 2 this morning when I had non-shit-related wakies.) Finally decided to leave it charging and to try again in the morning.
When I still got nothing, I resolved take kid, kaboodle and kharger (which, like iPhone cords, doubles as the USB to PC-Land) down the hall to at least see if I could access its drive through my laptop.... whereupon the sumbitch promptly turned itself back on.
I do not understand these Droids, Obi-Wan. Can you not use them when they're plugged in, charging? Is there some magical way of checking how charged they are (like the red-lightning-bolt-red-to-green-battery icons that display on the iPhone during its regeneration)? Or has the ghost of our former home's owner, who moved here with us 18 years ago, just decided she likes reading the books on there?
It's all got me swinging. And, at this rate, my head will be spinning faster than Linda Blair's.
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Date: 2012-04-02 02:58 pm (UTC)