Cake

I’ll get to the cake in a minute. First…

I find myself in a less than desirable situation. I call it Night Class. The way I see it, I have two options. I can pay attention and try to learn something or I can blog and let you all into my mind. I’m pretty sure that trying to pay attention will only result in me sleeping, so welcome everyone to my mind.

Short Story: Dumb Man of the Day.

I answered the phone at work today (mistake); it was a secretary from one of the companies for which we do computer support. She explained that one of the companies’ VP’s had a home computer that was plagued with a "multitude of problems." I arranged to meet this person at his home just after lunch to make his computer happy again. When I met him at his house, he explained that the problem was simply that he couldn’t get the printer to work. So much for the multitude… I then listened to a five minute story about how several of his “computer savvy” neighbors had spent hours trying to fix the problem, to no avail. I then sat down at his computer and pulled up the list of installed printers. There was one. It matched the printer on the desk. In the printer status section was one phrase. Two perplexing, nearly impossible to decipher, impossibly big words stared at me from the glowing screen.

“printing paused.”

Two clicks of the mouse solved the problem. Honestly, I’d be willing to wager that my grandmother would be able to figure this one out! I want to meet his neighbors that spent hours trying to fix this. Maybe I don’t. Either way, I got the satisfaction of leaving him a hefty invoice for a two second job.

Stupid Moment: Two of the Dumbest Questions I've Ever Been Asked (by my least favorite blind customer (last friday))

In talking about audio extension cables, I was asked, word for word, no kidding.

“Now, is the ten foot cable longer than the six foot?”

Later in that thirty minute conversation from hell, the topic changed to external hard drives. In talking about hard drive space, he asked.

“So, I have a 250GB hard drive with my programs on it and a 160GB hard drive with my music and movies. Is a 750GB external drive going to be enough to fit everything from both drives?”

And finally, the Cake.

To truly understand, you must play and beat Portal by Valve. I have a new phrase by which to live my life. It goes.

“There’s no sense crying over every mistake, you just keep on trying ‘til you run out of cake.”

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