Ritual
Every trip home includes a couple rituals. Getting mauled by the dogs, cleaning the gutters, putting on a pound a day for the length of the trip, and fixing all the computers.
The last one was fun for a while but more and more it’s not something I look forward to - it would be really easy to spend the rest of my life fixing the same computers that get broken in the same ways and the marginal value-add of fixing the same computer always diminishes. Fixing a new computer or a new person’s computer is usually pretty interesting because of the different ways people use them, though.
Anyway, the current problem seems to have to do with periodic BSOD’s my dad’s been hitting. Usually when that a) happens b) intermittently and c) has recently started happening it indicates some kind of hardware problem. I haven’t finished conducting my exhaustive set of diagnostics, but I *think* I’m onto something here…