Whee! A tech day! We just got a kick-ass G4 lab for the students, so in an effort to give each faculty member her own computer, I’ve spent the entire morning and the better part of the afternoon hooking up some very weird looking G3s that were made for about a day and a half back in 1998 (the top of the all-in-one unit looks like the small of someone’s back–if someone’s back happened to be perforated opaque plastic) and a few LCIIIs with some very old StyleWriters and DeskJets and whatever else I could find lying around the school’s computer graveyard. I’m not the world’s best when it comes to doing hardware things like that; in fact, it can get pretty damn irritating. But once I demonstrated the ability to hook up a mouse, suddenly everyone else around me became helpless.
I mean, yeah, I like feeling needed (if not loved), but having to run across campus to fix a paper jam isn’t the kinda love I need.
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