About a week ago, my computer at home started failing to boot up. I called Bob several times to see what I could do to troubleshoot it the best I could in my limited capability. We had been having several hot days in a row, and being that my bedroom resembles the climate of the Mojave when its over 80 degrees outside, I assumed it was because some component inside my box was fried. :( So, I called one of the computer repair places that advertized on craigslist to recieve a quote. This gruff-sounding man answered the phone who sounded like he should be wacking 4x4s on some construction site, not diagnosing hardware problems. After I gave him a quick synopsis of what was going on, he said it was most likely my motherboard that failed and that it would just be best to buy a whole new computer system "since the lifespan of computers these days are about 3 years". Uhh.. bullshit. I quickly got off the phone with him and called Bob to confirm the bullshit. He confirmed the bullshit and gave me another list of tasks to try and see what the problem was.

Welp, it turned out a few days ago I was trying to open a DVDr with my CDRom drive (don't ask, I'm not too bright in that capacity). I had left the DVDr inside, and so my computer was trying to boot off of this disk for the past week! yarg. So I managed to pull out the DVD and the computer booted up as normal.

I can't believe that guy tried to rip me out of $1500 without even looking at my computer. This makes me want to make a fist and shake it saying, "WHY GOD WHYYYYYYYY!?" and maybe then take that fist to that dude's jaw at high velocity. Dicko.