Weekend Word - Saturday, Aug 16

Since I was coming in early this morning from the Metroplex, I arrived at 8:15 am at the office. No sooner had I gotten there than a lady came in with her PC, needing it looked at.

It looked like it was going to be a busy day, as I received another one to work on shortly after 9 am. I still had the one from last weekend to finish up, a notebook to repair with a new LCD that had just arrived and notebook I had been waiting on a keyboard to replace. That made 5 on the bench and it wasn't even 10 am yet.

I worked my way through them and got most of them done before the end of the day. I had the one with the replacement LCD finished and the notebook with the bad keyboard finished and just needing Windows updates applied, so I left it running overnight upgrading it.

As the day wore on, I got a few more things to troubleshoot, one resulting in a power supply sale for an eMachine that the guy got given to him. He was lucky, as I have an eMachine motherboard graveyard hanging on the wall from bad power supplies. This one was just the power supply. I tested it and it showed bad. I placed a used power supply on the board and the box came up, so he bought the new power supply and was going to put it in by himself. Nowadays it's pretty easy to do that. Most things will only fit one way. Back in the early 90's you pretty much had to know how to wire one up or you would pop a breaker or toast the power supply.

I ran out about 1:00 pm and grabbed a Mini Capt's Mate burger from BnB and came back to the office since I didn't have anyone to keep things open while I ate lunch.

Overall the day was pretty busy. I looked up at 7:00 pm and decided to call it a day. I wanted to get home to watch the Cowboy's preseason game against the Bronco's and the Phantastic Phelps Pheat of winning 8 gold medals at the Olympics, so I hurried home, grabbing a quick dinner at the K-N Root Beer to eat when I got home.

I watched the first quarter and some of the second and then turned over to watch the Olympics and don't recall anything else until about 1:00 am when I woke up, missing the rest of the Cowboy game and the record-breaking 8th win for Phelps. I will have to catch both on replay.