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My three kids love watching Tinker Bell (yes, even the boy, which I don’t mind becasue she’s a chick with tools, which is universally hot). If you haven’t seen it, then ***SPOILER ALERT*** here’s the summary:
Bell is whooshed into being, and discovers her “talent” is to be a “Tinker,” a fairy that makes suff like pots, pans, houses, etc. She finds this lothesome and trys out eveyone else’s more glamorous talents, before accidentally ruining spring. She comes through in the end, though, saving spring by embracing her talent and using it.
Well, I’m a Tinker. I love taking stuff apart, fixing it, making it better. Sometimes, I do it for no reason. I collect spare computer parts just so I can build computers, a process that, for me, just never gets old. Hearing the comforting BIOS beep of a freshly Frankensteined system is one of the joys in my life.
Sometimes, though, I fail at it. Like a couple of weeks ago at work, I took something apart to fix it, and ended up getting in a small amount of trouble. To be honest, all of my assumptions about what was wrong and how to fix it were spot on, but I couldn’t PROVE any of it with test readings, and thusly couldn’t apply them. I had the right answers, but showed no work.
So when Lara messeged me that her headset wasn’t working right, my Tinkerness went into full gear. She described the problem, and I had a few ideas of how to fix it. She said to let her call Best Buy first to see if she can exchange them since they’re under warranty.
For all my geeky-fixer-Tinkerness, that’s probably the safest way to go.