2010-07-22:
Sorry, bit of Fire Bomber there.
Much more teeth sinking today, into meaty, juicy, pc problems. The first of which involved setting up one a person had given another person. So not only did I have to take off all their crap, I had to add my crap- I mean, important security considerations. I was late, because her brain worked very slowly and choosing a skype name and password took far too long. Ugh. Amazing how much more responsive PCs are without antivirus software on them. I stripped the old one off and did everything, thinking, wow, for being only 1.5ghz this machine doesn't seem too awful! Then I put Avast! on there and was, like, oh, there it is. (By it I mean teh slownez)
Ah, AOL guy. I remember you. Somehow his avast stopped working, so I had to unload it and reload it. Ran malwarebytes, the usual.
Over to rebath. He was saying the wireless didn't connect, it did. He was also trying to use a busted ethernet cable, which I replaced with a new one, made by me, which went super on the one end, but the other end just kept slipping up. Got it in the end though.
Another one to clean out, but this one hooked up to a gigantic TV. I don't know, there comes a point where big becomes too big, and trying to use a machine with everyday stuff, on a monitor that huge? Reading a web site? Start at one end, and go 30" over that way to get to the end of one line, then back. Exercise, I guess.
Then over to Victor, a half hour drive. I was an hour early, but his wife was just opening the door, so that worked out. After I finished his main problem, he wanted to get his crappy ME machine online so his grandkids stopped messing with his. I told him, $15 for the card, and he said he was going to hold off. ooookay? But I said, look, save me the hour round trip, I'll put the card in now, you can pay me later. So that worked out, and you owe me, future me, for saving you that driving!
Someone on okcupid actually messaged me !? It was only like two lines:
"Hi, I need my computer fixed.
Kidding! But you seem nice."
And that was it. Okay, are you really trying, or... what? But looking at her pictures she's a cute little asian girl (4' 11") and her username references transformers, so that's points right there. And she likes cosplay? And is looking for a nerd? Hummmmm Now if she just likes role playing...
Back to almost not absurd levels of calls today. So I have three each tomorrow and saturday. Along with Dr. Who night, confirmed!