Even techies get the blues

I've been at the WLA conference all week, and one of my responsibilities has been to blog the sessions I attend for the Media & Technology Section of WLA. (My posts are available on the WLA Blog.) Anyway, the first day of the conference was HUGELY frustrating for me, because I was encountering one problem after another, and all of it was technology related in one way or another.

First, I'm in the bathroom, and I can't get any water to come out of the faucet to wash the soap off of my hands. Other people walk right up and make it work, while I go from faucet to faucet with no luck. I know it's a sensor-based system and start waving my soapy hands all over the place, again with no luck. Finally, I see that the sensor is under the mirror in front of me rather than under the faucet spout like other places, and AAAAAAAH! Success at last.

Then I need to connect to the wireless in the convention center. I was happy I brought my light little Mac PowerBook along from home to blog with, but wait! I can't connect! What? Other PC users are getting in just fine? What's wrong with my computer? How am I going to blog the con? I messed around all morning trying to connect with no luck. Finally a friend suggests that the problem is Safari, my browser, so I use her PC to download Firefox and install it on my Mac. Voila! Now the wireless works and I can finally go my merry way. It was a very frustrating experience.

Why am I telling you all this? Because I want you to know that even "techies" get the blues once in a while. We don't know how to troubleshoot everything and run into problems, where we feel out of our element and frustrated and uncomfortable. Ever feel like that in Project Play? Well, you're in good company. So all we can do is... Play more. Learn more. And fear less!