Thursday, September 15, 2011

Got A Problem? See Sean

Remember the fabulously funny line from George Gobel when he was on The Johnny Carson Show in the late 1960's? "Did ever feel the whole world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes"? This is how I am with my new Toshiba computer. I am the brown shoes. I should have hung in there with the Acer I bought in December of last year. It was easy. Heck! I should have bought something Wiley Coyote would have used from the Acme computer company to catch the Roadrunner. I convinced myself that a new computer is like a new car. There are a number of glitches involved in getting used to the product. Wrong on this point. I'm a computer klutz. For the last five days I've been trying to figure out how to link articles for this blog. How to get into my golf site to get a tee time. Evidently with a newer computer, and this is true, pop-ups occur. They something like, do you want to do this or that or would you like to update yada yada yada. At these momentous times I get in trouble. I throw darts. "Hmmm, maybe I should 'accept' or maybe not". It's then that I get smart and tell myself to go see Sean. He is a technology specialist at our MicroCenter Computer store. Sean can fix anything in seconds. I remember being on the telephone to the Philippines with some guy when I first bought a computer. What a joke. After an hour I put the phone up to my ear in case he asked me a question and watched NCIS. The thing with Sean and MicroCenter is that all technology assistance is absolutely FREE. Now, since I've been to this store nearly a hundred thousand times in the last three years it's not exactly free because I casually slip Sean some cash. He's not supposed to take it but if I can be discreet it can get done. This is how much I think of Sean. I adopted him and do call him son.
If you happen to be from any state in the union and have a computer problem make a special trip to Columbus. It'll be worth it and, trust me, you won't have to put up with guys from the Philippines.

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