I turned on Sunny's laptop this afternoon and discovered it wasn't connecting to the internet.
I disconnected and reconnected to the wireless network, I rebooted the computer...I was just getting ready to check the router when Sunny asked me what was wrong.
"Your laptop can't access the internet." I said.
"Oh, it's ok." She said as though it wasn't a problem. "It's been doing that all day."
It was then that I realised something. Sunny's got so used to me fixing computer problems that most of the time she doesn't realize that the reason these things start working again is because I fix them.
If the laptop doesn't connect to the internet, just turn it off, wait a while, and when you turn it back on again it'll be working.
I'm not sure whether to be proud or offended. On the one hand, I'm obviously doing a good job keeping everything up and running. On the other, I can spend three hours in front of the computer trying to track down a problem, and to everyone else it just 'magically' starts working again.
4 comments:
its just a shame that the "computer fairy" doesnt do dishes...:)
dont feel bad, my family thinks the laundry and dishes are just magically done while they sleep.
Past experience would teach me that should anything bad happen in a place of business and it's your job to fix it, "turn it off and on again" pops up more times than not.
So it seems you can waste 3 years of degree time on learning this one solution!
It's elves! LOL.
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