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Another Computer Bites the Dust

  • Jul. 17th, 2009 at 12:03 AM
James Unshaven
Today I took Cathy's laptop in for service. It hasn't functioned for about three days. The prominent symptoms have been a clicking sound being repeated and a screen blank except for a blinking question mark. I expected these to be symptoms of hard drive failure but was unable to confirm it at the Apple site, where all information tends to be obfuscated. I first took the machine to the Apple store, where it was confirmed to be a hard drive malady from the symptoms I described. They told me that it would cost me a fortune if they worked on something so old, and they suggested a place called Cry Wolf, who could do the work for much, much less.

When we first moved back to Lemon Grove, I bought Derek's first computer at a place on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. I later bought a computer for myself and my first ink jet printer at that same place. Cry Wolf was in the same building that other store used to occupy but is only about a third as big. As you enter the store, you pass a big pile of life-sized and larger stuffed leopard toys and a couple of elegant long-haired black cats. We quickly agreed on what they'll do (replace the bad 80 gigabyte hard drive with a 250 gigabyte hard drive, not because Cathy needs more capacity but because that's the current sweet spot between the minimum 120 and the maximum 500 gigabyte drives, and attempt to recover what they can of Cathy's data).

I'm looking forward to hearing from them.

But that's our third computer fatality of the year so far and the second hard drive fatality, plus having the cable modem die on us.
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