A Regular Nick Burns

July 25th, 2008

About a week before we left for BC the wifi on Matthew’s 2 year old MacBook Pro decided to stop working. That’s not entirely true, it would work SOMETIMES which is ever so much more frustrating. When we were in Seattle our friend Mark (likes motorcycles, long walks on the beach, and is insanely smart about technology) diagnosed it with a hardware problem. Matthew frowned on the outside but was actually ridiculously excited and immediately started building a new computer at the apple store online while we were sitting in their living room trying to enjoy a “How I Met Your Mother: Season 1″ marathon.  When he told me the computer of his dreams would be about $3,000 (Matthew+supa computer=true love 4E) I was ridiculously not excited. I mean REALLY, isn’t there another option. After a little google searching he came across this scam and put the necessary items in a cart. Again, I was all like “Come on! a teeny tiny screwdriver, its that really necessary”

The box of parts and supplies came this morning and he got to work. 

Me: Did you back up your computer?

MP: Yes (no)

Me: Maybe you should move that coffee

MP: I will

I have nothing to say really because its been 2 hours and his computer is totally and completely repaired for $60 (including shipping) and about 8 minutes of work. 

Tags: husbandry

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