Computer Dependency

We have become so computer dependent that when it doesn’t work, we’re lost. My internet service has been on and off for the last week….mostly off. This is the third day (although not consecutively) I have tried to post a blog, and could not get online. Frustrating. I’ll get this posted as soon as I can.

We had another Double Take Celebrity Impersonator show last night. We never had so much squelchy feedback from our equipment. The cordless microphones kept acting up….squelching….intermittently cutting out for a second or two….at least the one that stopped working, did so after a song was over, so the sound man handed the singer another mic. But, we were dependent on this machine. (Which I’m sure has computer chips in it.) We powered through all the glitches. It’s just a little unnerving. But you can never let them see you sweat.

When the computer goes down at the restaurant, it turns into Confusion City. The food prices are listed in the menu, so we can look them up…..but no one knows the drink prices. We don’t have to, they’re in the computer! Many servers, who have never worked without a computer, are totally lost on how to run a charge card without it.

The cooks are used to our orders coming in on little pieces of paper getting spit out a printer. When that doesn’t work, we write them out and turn them in. Then more confusion ensues when the computer finally starts working again and they get bombarded with orders that have already been made. You can hit the “Don’t make” key, but inevitably someone will forget to do that.

I’m on a real electronics downer this morning…..but I’ll get over it. “Oh, these computers are wonderful! Until the next time they crash…….