scariest day ever

2 of my 3 best friends died for a while today.

my ipd and kindle both just turned off withing 15 minutes of each other, and nothing i did could turn them back on, it was horrifying. i was literally inconsolable. i just sat down and was depressed in a bookstore for 10 minutes, i don't know what i'm going to do without them, how will i get through the day?

then i started being proactive, maybe they can still be saved! maybe there's some cpr-like combination of buttons that hard-reset them and bring them back from the brink. so like an citizen resuscitating someone until the ambulance (in this metaphor the ambulance is the internet and the hospital is someone i have to actually pay to fix it) shows up, i started methodically holding all the combinations of buttons i could think of for like 20 seconds. the ipod came back first, and it was a close thing. it took 3 tense, adrenaline filled minutes to load up, but it still had my music and everything.  then the kindle. this was more straightforward because there are literally 2 buttons. so i managed to save them both, but it was a close thing.

so anyway, if anyone's ipod or kindle breaks, hold down the power and menu buttons for 10 seconds on the ipod, and hold the power switch for 15-20 seconds on the kindle to (hopefully) bring it back.

the ipod died in the middle of a song, i don't know if i can ever listen to fast cars by tracy chapman again.

the weirdest part is i didn't even do anything.  i don't think i've ever dropped the ipod and i've definitely never spilled anything on it, i treat the kindle like it's my only child, they just both decided to die at the same time. technology hates me.