| okay so yesterday i really felt the truthfulness of the teach a man to fish thing. Both of my computers broke down the same day. I freaked out. the laptop we could send back to fede's work in Denver and they would fix it for free. but the desktop was a different story. the plastic screws holding inthe motherboard snapped and it fell into the casing. so i couldn't plug anythign in and the keyboard had come undone so basically the computer was useless. hte computer was working fine except for that so i thought it ouldn't be a big deal. I took it to the guy who reapaired it and he was acting like it was major surgery and would cost me $120 to fix. i said no way. I was panicking and took it to 3 different places where they were going to charge me $60-140 to "fix it" and then they wouldn't even know if it worked or not. One place said "whoa we can't touch this. your mother board is fried for sure" like it was some crazy thing that had happened. I we are in the middle of 2 loans right now and really can't be without a computer. fede and i decide dwell we'd better just see if we can fix it and go look for a new computer tomorrow. not really how we wanted to spend our Christmas money ( and more) but ox on the more right? I did not want to go shopping of r a new computer #1 i never know what to look for, #2 i hate spending the money, #3 i feel so wasteful getting rid of the old one, and #4 it just seemed so unjust. I have to admit i was feeling like God hated me and saying "why me??". (but then i remembered my friends husband who is fighting bad cancer at 28 and took it back. I'd rather deal with this i think....) i was in the parking lot of the repair shop ready to bite the bullet and just pay to see if they could fix it. and i thought i can't do this I felt really strongly like i shouldn't go in. maybe it was my own stubbornness or perhaps something more. so I called my brother Spencer and explained it to him. (I feel bad calling experts sometimes it feels wrong like asking your dentist friend to look in your mouth and see if you need to get a cavity filled or something) so anyways we all know Spencer is a super genius just like Gabe but he's also a great brother. maybe it wasn't much to him ( maybe it was a huge inconvenience) but to me it was a sanity saving thing. He told me that just seems wrong and told me i could probably do it myself. he told me what parts to get and how to fix it and mostly gave me the confidence that i would not blow up my computer. And guess what.../ I DID IT! i took apart my computer and put the mother board back in place put the parts back together and hooked it all up and TADA! it works perfectly. its a Christmas miracle!!!! I can't even thank spencer enough. I feel so elated and like I rock!! So then I felt a little guilty for resenting Heavenly father and realized if all this had not happened I would not know this much joy for just having a computer that works if this had not happened, i would not now have the confidence to fix my own computer and I would not, not feel so afraid that something will go wrong (mind you I'm not opening a repair shop or anything hahaha) . once again He is smarter than me. Score: HF-500,985,940 me -0 |
Beauty and the Beast Jr
7 years ago


2 comments:
Go Marsha! Good for you for figuring out a way to do it yourself!
(And this may sound lame, but I find that Costco has the best deals on computers, and it's all in one box. Makes it super easy. Just in case you ever can't fix your own PC!)
Nice! I was wondering what was behind that comment you left on my blog about fixing your own computer! Way to go! I love knowing smart people that you can turn to in electronic crisis... Craig Asian is my computer geek hero, we should all have one!
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