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Holiday Tech Support

April 11th, 2009

I don’t see my family as often since I’ve moved to San Francisco. This weekend I’m home for the Easter holiday. Its nice to see everyone. Additionally, I have a backlog of tech support for my parents and grandparents. I’ve installed software purchased months ago, done updates that they weren’t even are of, installed a router and fixed rats nests of cables. I’ve restored TV setups to working order and am about to fix a vacuum cleaner. Are you the tech support guy for your family? What are you fixing this weekend?

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14 Responses to “Holiday Tech Support”

  1. Joshua says:
    10/31/2009 at 1:57 pm

    We are oceans apart and she needs to install adobe creative suite on her new mac book pro so i registed an account on logmein and i’ve been using that to install most of the softwares she need . its pretty much like she’s next door u know :) ..but gets cruky sometyms when the internet it slow

  2. Barb Snow says:
    11/13/2009 at 8:41 am

    hmmmm… I can’t get my pc to talk to my mac. And I’m having trouble with my printer…

  3. jessica says:
    6/17/2010 at 9:13 pm

    Hope you happy every day, i also can not meet my parents

  4. jessica says:
    6/17/2010 at 10:07 pm

    yesterday we had a holiday, but i did not back home, because i am far away from my parents, so sad

  5. Nick says:
    10/11/2010 at 12:06 pm

    haha, i like that you have spread your expertise to cover vacuums! I recently had to fix a blu ray player and a digital camera..so much fun!

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  7. Daniel says:
    3/20/2011 at 5:37 pm

    I just cleaned and repaired a vacuum cleaner myself… I’m from a relatively poor family so I do a ton of tech support on old machine. I just had to try to explain to my uncle why his Pentium 3 wouldn’t play WoW at max settings…

    At any rate, I feel your pain as the tech support guy. Glad you got to see your family and good luck with your task list.

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