Didn’t really give me a choice there did you?<\/p>\n
\t\tSeriously though, the amount of times I’m out having a quiet, relaxing pint, when I’ll catch the eye of someone across the bar. My thought process goes a little like this:<\/p>\n
\t\t“Fucksocks…is he coming over? bollocks, he is.”<\/p>\n
\t\tAnd then I get the “You fixed my computer 3 years ago…”<\/p>\n
\t\tI usually follow this with “And many, many others since then…” to no avail.<\/p>\n
\t\tNow anyone reading this who has fixed a few computers will be nodding in agreement here, but these people assume that because you installed a stick of RAM for them 3 years ago, you automatically know every detail about their system with out looking at it again.<\/p>\n
\t\tA friend has a problem with his computer – from what I’ve learnt, it freezes during POST. I reassured him that it’s most likely not terminal and worse case, I can retrieve the data from the drive, wipe it and put on a fresh genuine copy *cough* of Windows, then put his data back on.<\/p>\n
\t\tHe was particularly concerned with a game he plays.<\/p>\n
\t\t“It took so long to download the game.” he said sadly.<\/p>\n
\t\t“But you were on a dial-up connection right?” says I.<\/p>\n
\t\tAfter explaining what a dial-up connection was (is this what an embolism feels like?), then explaining the difference between that speed and current broadband\/cable speeds I lost the will to live<\/span> assured him he’d be up and running with his game within a day or two of getting the computer to me.<\/p>\n \t\tI love computers, and still get a buzz from making them run faster and better than before, but people! sometimes I need some quiet, peaceful time without being hounded for my skills.<\/p>\n \t\tAnyway, it’s Friday – the weekend cometh…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Didn’t really give me a choice there did you? Seriously though, the amount of times I’m out having a quiet, relaxing pint, when I’ll catch the eye of someone across the bar. My thought process goes a little like this: “Fucksocks…is he coming over? bollocks, he is.” And then I get the “You fixed my computer 3 years ago…” I usually follow this with “And many, many others since then…” to no avail. Now anyone reading this who has fixed a few computers will be nodding in agreement here, but these people assume that because you installed a stick of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[136,166,437],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-computers","tag-dial-up","tag-question"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sneesh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}