Why Me Part II

Perspective
OR
R.I.P ASEUS 133—BUT I CAN GET SOMETHING ELSE.

Mark Anthony came over yesterday afternoon. I wanted him to take a look at the PC desktop and see if my thoughts about the lost power source were correct. Mark plugged the system in and unplugged and plugged in the system again and tried to turn the computer on but still nothing happened. We figured it had to be the Power source. Mark wanted to look at the power source so he took the back off the computer and just stared—he looked like he had just seen a ghost. Mark looked at me and asked if I had dropped the system recently or violently run into the system with my Jazzy.
I pondered the question but honestly answered , “No, not to my knowledge—why do you ask.”

“I don’t kow I have never seen anything like this, but the fan is completely ripped off the vents and this is your processor and looks cooked.”

I inched my wheelchair forward and there in the gloom of the cpu was the charred remains of what had been my processor. The mother board was gone, fried, taken back to the MCU (Master Control Unit). Mark Anthony gently handled the pieces and tried to scrub some of the charred remains of the heat sink…it was ugly.

“ Your motherboard is fried, Dad. I am sorry “ with that he buttoned the case shut and set in back on the computer stand looking small and so insignificant.

Luckily I have a lap top which is working just fine but, I am going to have to replace the PC and soon. The lap top is just too small for Dianne ad I to both use. I think the rest of the stuff in the computer, a hard drives, CD roms,dvd player and writers are still operational. So the question is to get a new system or to get a basic chassis with a mother board and transfer the components over. This would the most inexpensive. If I were to go to a new system entirely I think I could replace my system with a much less expensive piece which would do equal or more work. I owned the deceased system for almost 6 years—it has been great but time to let go.

So, the perspective piece is this—I have all this drama over the weekend and I feel kinda stressed. Well, I get into work this morning and encounter Amy, one of my work buds and she informs me she has been the target of credit card fraud!!! They totally drained her account. She was distraught. I felt bad for her too…but then I thought. I could live with just the lap top if I had to and I will replace the PC sooner then later with little distress. Yeseree things don’t look bad at all. Everything is a matter of perspective.