Just out of the blue, "let's call the computer guy", I got 10 calls today. Do you know how long it's been since I got ten calls? In one day? Yeah, maybe I'll get close to that over fri/sat/sun but in one day? What? When I already had tomorrow booked? 

 

 

Soooo, shopping. Did manage to get my money changed at chase. Well, all but $6 worth of coins. Jerks. Got stuff out of the library, most of which I managed to read today. Whoops. No problems there. The rest of the day I might as well not have bothered with, I could have stayed home and done nothing and made the same money.

 

The first one would go on for a second, then shut off again. It's this mini unit, which I couldn't figure out how to open, of all things. So I brought it home and checked it out, finally figured out the little slider dealie slides one way for the HD cover, the other way for the other cover. Well, push that, then slide it off like you have three hands, but it finally worked. Bad capacitors, I'm afraid. Luckily I can replace the entire unit (sans HD) for $60 on ebay, so I just bought one and I'll move the HD from this one over. Stupid leaky capacitors.

 

Next up was just the tuneup lady who somehow got Aavst! pro and worried having "too much stuff" on her machine would make it draw more electricity and blow up. Honestly, do phone help "support" places have bets to see what the most outlandish thing is someone will believe? I'm going to start telling people they should only click their mouse between 50-75 times a day, otherwise static electricity will build up and might kill their dog. I'll tell them a close friend of mine lost his dog after only clicking 63 times, so anything above 50 and you're asking for trouble. I'll even provide them a little pad to record their number of clicks. It'll be hilarious.

 

Then over to Stewart's, who was trying to restore a backup, though he told me he was trying to DO a backup, but whatever. He had them saved all over the place, with these really bizarre names, and no file extension, making them almost impossible to find. But I did find one he had done not too long ago so he got back up and running. He still had the metro! It would be nice to have a little car like that to do errands and drive to Sean's and things rather then use Neesan, but oh well.  I again went over the proper procedure for doing the backup. Baka.

 

Came home, my guitar gently weeped to see the 10 calls I had to answer tonight. Don't get me wrong, as Yoda would say:

 

Calls leads to Jobs

Jobs leads to Money

Money leads to Happyness

 

But come on, ten in one day? What the heck?

 

So I ate dinner, finished Vampire Doll volume 1, which was pretty good. Made my freaking phone calls, and planned out my day for tomorrow. It'll be so fun, running back and forth, back and forth, all day. And then I'll get to do the same thing Wednesday! I've also booked at least one on both thursday and friday.