Cody

Laying in bed this morning I was rudely awoken at 9am yeah, just 5 hours after I had gotten to bed I hear the phone.  Generally I’m pretty immune to hearing the phone in the mornings, and it didn’t really start getting my up until I heard some loud guy with a name that I didn’t recognize blabbing about a fax machine, and he needed my help to get it working or something.  I instantly started going through the list in my head of people I had helped with computer issues before and people that I had built computers for… nope… no gruff, loud man came to mind… I kind of just passed it off… but it still worried me “maybe there was someone that I had talked into purchasing a certain fax machine and it wasn’t working for them” “possibly I had helped someone in the past with their computer and they gave this man my name”  Still, how and WHY was this man calling my house?  Was it someone who tracked me down from online?  Had I wronged this person before and they were just now catching up to me?  The thoughts kept coming… My mom finally came into my room and asked if I heard the message.  Still half asleep I’m like “yeah… sort of” she replies “Well Ed **** (this is the most public blog I have so I’m not gonna go leaving last names around the net of people who don’t necisarily know their name is being put online) wants you to take a look at his fax machine, he says it is sending faxes but won’t recieve anything.” “uhhh… ok… I don’t really know that much about faxes.” Not to mention I was still rather confused as to who it was in the first place.  Finally figuring out who it was and what not I went up to Platte City to take a look at Ed’s fax… I don’t know how but I fixed it.  I pulled the ink cartridges out and put them back in and not 5 secs. later it pops out a message saying “power failure occured during some faxes this morning” then the faxes came out…. ok, whatever…

 He then asked me to take a quick look at his computer (I don’t know if it was because he didn’t want to pay me for nothing, or because he didn’t want me to feel like I didn’t do anything).  Of course as soon as I touch the thing I’m grumbling about the trackball mouse.  I’ve sort of spoiled myself with my computer… of course I purchased and build the whole thing so it is set up to run the way I need and want it to run.  When I log on I immediately notice the “norton” icon at the bottom of the screen… which always means trouble… so if there are problems this is going to be a hit or miss on whether or not I can solve them, depending upon whether or not I can shut down Norton and make sure it doesn’t come back after restart.  Luckily the computer isn’t too infected or messed up because I’m able to get Norton off without a hitch.  Going through the basics I do what I do and start getting my usual set of programs…. only wishing I was connected to my network so I could set them up with my Defrag program, and all my optimization software… but anyways I start with Firefox, same place I always start, I hate IE with a passion and don’t like to use it.  Then comes AntiVir downloads and installs quickly… so I’m thinking things are going to be good.  An hour later this thing is STILL not done!  I don’t know if its the P4 1.8 or the HDD that is slowing this down…. but a 28GB hdd should never take this long to scan for viruses… not to mention it’s already had 40 warnings (yeah, Norton Anti-Virus is pretty much crap).

At least this little adventure does keep me from having to go give more plasma for money.

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