Self Realization…

Up until recently, I always considered myself a fairly patient person, but come last Sunday I realized just how impatient I can be when it comes to technology…My grandfather asked me, as everybody in my family does, to come by Sunday afternoon to give him a hand with his computer problems. My grandpa Gordon needed help with getting data off his old computer to transfer over to his new computer as he did not know how to do this.  I had no clue at the time just how much of a major pain this seemingly simple task would be.I grabbed my biggest memory drive (16GB) and headed over to my grandparents house at about 2:00pm Sunday afternoon. We had a quick visit with coffee and such before getting started. Then, there it was, a 1997 computer case looking paperweight, complete with the infamous “Blue Screen of Death”. I was speechless; I didn’t even know Compaq made paperweights…My first step was to get the computer booted into Windows without the “Blue Screen”. I figured since I could see caked on dusk all over it, that this was likely an overheating issue as well as the 11 year old antiquated computer parts. So I took the computer outside and spayed compressed air through it to clean it up a bit. In the process, I of course got dusk all over me and I couldn’t stop sneezing the rest of the day, good times. Once I got the paperweight as clean as I could with 2 cans of compressed air, I took it back into the house hooked it back up. I then placed a fan next to the computer to blow air through it while booting back into windows. 10 minutes later, the wonderful B.S.O.D. appears again. Lovely…Well needless to say, I made several more attempts trying numerous things to get this computer to boot long enough to retrieve the data. Nothing worked. So I decided to take his hard drive home, install it in my old paperweight to copy his data over. That was much easier. I asked my grandpa why he waited so long to get a new computer, he simply replied, “I didn’t think I needed one”. Next I had to setup his new computer.His new computer came with, yep, you guessed it,

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