Today was a great day in my nerdocity. Not only did my 17 button razer wired/wireless mouse arrive, but I pulled a rabbit out of a hat when fixing my parents computer. Last week I had remoted into my parents computer to fix a problem they were having with their printer. It is much simpler to do it this way rather than to have me drive the 45 minutes to their place and 45 minutes back. Somewhere in the process their system wonked out would no longer run programs or properly connect to a remote session. So today I made the journey down there, Windows 7 disc in hand and my laptop in case I needed to grab any drivers. The OS installed just fine, but many of the motherboard related components weren't working properly, including the Ethernet port. I looked up the specs on the motherboard from where purchased it, went looking for the necessary drivers on my laptop, nothing out of the ordinary, but my parents only had 3 blank CDs for transferring, one of which I had already used for a separate task. As it turned out the manufacturers drivers did not work and I was left with no method to transfer any other installers I found to the new computer. Then I earned my nerd cred.
I whipped out my phone, looked at my Dad dramatically and said, "I need your charger, NOW!" He quickly rushed to the kitchen in a desperate search and returned with both his and my Mom's power cord only to discover that they were simple chargers and not the 2 in 1 charger/data cable I needed! In a panic we desperately began to theorize as to where his data cable had gone, for you see, we both have identical models of phones, and I knew for certain that he had one! We donned our platemail, readied our blades and ventured forth into the rest of the house in a last ditch effort to find the cable and save the quarter tank of gas it would take for me to make another trip and at last we discovered it in a seldom used cabinet in my parent's bedroom, hidden by ferocious cassette tapes! The day was saved! We rushed back to my laptop, plugged the phone in, turning on USB storage, transfered the driver with much fervor and made haste towards my parents computer only to be thwarted by USB ports on the front of the tower being in negative hit points! In a last ditch effort, I reached around the tower, scrambling for an open USB port and SUCCESS! I plugged the cable in, turned on USB storage again, transferred the file and the day was won! I had conquered the shortcomings of Windows 7 with the lowly Droid operating system! FEAR ME! FOR I AM NERD!
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