I know when I am taking on a new technical support requirement. As such, I don’t do that lightly. I know that the time I think it is going to take to do anything in the way of repairing a computer should be doubled–at least. And with all of that, everything I have done this week is at five times as long and more complicated.
The most curious was Dr. Patton’s (the guy who takes care of my back, I love him) home computer. The power supply went out. I have two or three spare power supplies. (Don’t ask me why). I thought it would take ten minutes…tops. 2 hours later, with all my regular computer haunts shaking their heads it dawned on me that the only way I was going to get this done was to buy a brand new case–including the power supply–take all of the insides out, put them in the new box and go from there. It went down hill from there and hasn’t stopped since.
I think I must be caught in the alternating current back-lash being felt from the political mayhem in California. Makes me shudder.
I liked this story by Natalie Angier on the Confessions of a Lonely Atheist. in this week’s New York Times Magazine. I liked the part that said:
“I don’t belive in God, Gods, godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough for me”
Go ahead–tell me what you think. cb