Hot Cranky People

Not only do I need to spend a chunk of time today backing up my own shiny new Powerbook so I can send it back to Apple to fix some problems (which probably deserve an entry of their own), but I spent the afternoon on the phone with my parents providing family tech support. Sigh.

Arlo and I spent a good part of our vacation last week installing a new drive into their machine and getting it all set up. Well, I got a frantic call this morning from Mom, telling me it won’t start up without freezing.

Assuming that there’s an issue with the new drive, I got a whole list ready of stuff to walk her through. Luckily, we hadn’t gotten too far when it occured to me to ask her if there was a chance the mouse had come unplugged…

Yep, you guessed it.

And now, I am heading out to a friend’s house to fix his network… for the third time. He and his partner are such dear people and I don’t mind helping them, but my entire day has now been swallowed up by computer crap.

I mean, I had more important things to do today. Like eating french fries, or watching TV.