...I think I do, and I think that’s the problem. For I suddenly find myself with a dead or nearly dead hard drive chock full of unbackedup data being operated on by a crack team of tech-heads in up in Miramar.
And that’s my fault there; I just suck at keeping a regular backup schedule.
But these guys are apparently very, very good. It’s San Diego PC Help (http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-diego-pc-help-san-diego) and their reviews on Yelp consist of 23 5-star, 1 4-star, and 1 2-star ratings. And the reasons for the 2-star look dubious. I’ve never seen a computer repair business that deals in Macs and PCs on Yelp with that kind of ratio. San Diego Computer Consultants comes close (http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-diego-computer-consultants-san-diego), but it seems they still have some real issues from customers to contend with.
Anyway, so I drove up to Miramar today and encountered a most intriguing crew of three, two of whom I could relate to quite well. One was the guy I spoke to on the phone, and he turned out to have ink somewhat like myself, but with a nice spiderweb on his throat that looked damned painful. Then he turned me over to the guy who’s actually attempting the repair of my drive, and he and I got along well, too. I could tell this guy’s perhaps even a bit more eccentric than his partner: maybe an introvert of sorts, but someone who does get out and is active within the SCA community. He told me he liked my rings and I have to admit there was a little bit of bonding there going on, though not overtly. Plus, his fave OS is Linux, and you can’t really argue with that.
Bottom line is that this was a small, intimate crew with whom I had important things in common. And there’s nothing like commonality to stimulate trust. Plus, they had a few key oldschool gaming systems running in the entryway, and that never hurts my impression of techie folks. I think there was a Commodore 64, but I’m sure there was an SNES running “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time”. At first I thought it was being emulated, but then I turned and saw the console there plain as day. Much more impressed than I would have been had it simply been emulated.
So, I have faith that my dear, little drive is in the most competent hands in San Diego. But the question remains, even if they succeed at restoring the data, will that change my reckless ways?
I hope so.
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