This year at work, my resolution was to go digital.  No paper starting January 1.  If paper crossed my desk, it was scanned.  Most important, however, was to take notes on my office laptop.  Great idea.  Worthy endeavor.  Only one problem, technology wise, I sometimes find myself stuck in the ’90s.

Exhibit A – Microsoft Notepad.  Yes, I often take notes in Notepad.  If you have never seen Notepad, don’t bother.  It’s a product of 1996, but I find it quick and easy to use.  My co-workers are often shocked to see such a dinosaur (Notepad and maybe me) appear in a meeting.  Mockery ensues and I ask, “What should I use instead?”

Recognizing that I am probably not prepared for a complete jump into 2018, my colleagues have suggested a baby step:  Microsoft OneNote.  Okay, one problem, OneNote needed one person from IT to spend one minute unlocking it on my one computer.  What was one to do?

So a Help Desk ticket was filed for OneNote to be installed and today was the day that IT arrived to make it happen.  I was going to do it.  I was finally entering 2K.

As I watched, IT began the installation and…  the building lights went out.  Seriously.  Complete building power failure.  It was as if the present said, “Dave, nice try, but get your ass back to 1990.”

As I began to weep softly in the corner of my cube, power was restored.  A friend messaged me from the other side of the building to say the we were on generator power.  The grid was holding on by a string.

It appears as if my entry into the 21st century had been approved on a trial basis.  I would need to prove myself to be allowed to stay.  Honest, I promise to behave.  You can write that down in Word and save it in the cloud.  This 1990s boy can reboot, just wait and see.