March 15, 2004
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Blue Salvia at Arbor Hills Nature Preserve in Plano, TX Photo by Chris Duffy
Zipidy-Do-Dah, Zipidy-A. Oh my goodness what a WONDERFUL DAY! Sorry, folks, but I’m just soooooooooo relieved. I fixed my own computer problems and saved myself $200 by not having to phone the ”Geeks on Call” fella. You see, we switched rooms with my computer room and the guest bedroom in our house. It was a lot of hard work, because it was just my hubby and I doing the furniture moving. I had to pay to have the cable people come out and pull the cable modem wiring over to the new computer room. I got everything hooked up and everything worked except the earphones I use to talk to my sister in Instant Messages. I tried every conceivable combination of ways to hook the earphones up to the computer, to the speakers, the CPU and nothing worked, so I called “Geeks on Call” and had them come out and figure out the problem. It took him all of two minutes to fix it and he charged me $99 . . . the minimum. But it was well worth it, since I certainly couldn’t figure it out. What I failed to realize at the time he was here, was that wireless capabilities for when I bring my work laptop home to do home work on, also did not work. Well, the next day a friend of mine from work volunteered to come see what the problem was so I wouldn’t have to pay the Geek again. He decided my wireless router had died during the move so he installed a new one and got my internet up and running and my laptop working wirelessly too. That only cost the price of a new wireless router.
But then the NEXT day when I fired up the computers to do a blog and to do some homework, not only could I not get my laptop to work wirelessly, I couldn’t even get to the internet on my HOME computer. I tell you I was depressed. I felt really bad about the prospects of calling my friend up and telling him that nothing worked, but I felt even worse about the thought of having the Geeks charge me $200 to fix my new problems. . . I KNEW he wouldn’t be able to fix it in two minutes again. But before I bit the bullet and called the Geeks again, I thought I’d give it one more try this evening and wonder of wonders, I actually figured out what the problem was, thereby saving myself $200.
Now, the way I see it, having SAVED the $200, I should now be able to go out and spend it on something I really want. Right? Right?? Work with me here.
Comments (7)
:sunny: Oh, happy day… :goodjob: I’m so proud of you that you figured it out yourself. :fun: Wheee… I’m so happy :giggle:
nothing like learning something new. I love to figure things out and am very unhappy when I cant. Lots of things on the computer I can do but the mechanical stuff and a lot of the software, not the install, I can do that but tweeking, another ballgame. I say be really proud of what you did.
Sounds like you have had grimlins in your computer!! Hey, I think you have perfect woman’s logic about the saved $200!
…kudos to YOU! :goodjob: Keeping up with all the tech changes, viruses and etc is a FULL-time job. :spinning:
MuSe
…delighted to work with you ANYTIME – now, what is IT you really want? :yes:
PS:…love the pic!!! M
:goodjob:Oooo!..saving all that $ calls for a shopping trip! :giggle:
Use some of the money for good and powerful security tools like the Zone alarm ones and Norton ones, and a proffessional e-Mail filter, my computer is now five years old, and it only needed re-programmming once and that was due to a stupid printer.
Ya gotta spend it on geek stuff, though.
Mike