Today was one of the best examples ever of a typical day. In fact, today was so typical that it was atypically typical.
I began my day by giving the office manager at a local doctor’s office a lesson in Microsoft PowerPoint.
Immediately after that I headed to Sam’s Club to purchase a video card for my next client. I barely had enough time to buy the card before I had to be at their house to install it. I have had to install several video cards for teens lately. The new version of Age of Empires III has some pretty hefty processor and video requirements.
After installing the 256MB video card I noticed that they only had 256MB of RAM and they were running Norton Internet Security 2005. I told them that the new video card would help, but the system wasn’t going to get much faster until they added some RAM and dumped Norton. They told me that they would get back to me after they ordered the RAM from Dell.
I went to my next client and they weren’t home, which was good because an accountant called me and their server wasn’t booting up. When I got there it turned out that the problem was with their USB external hard drive. Once I unplugged the USB cord and recycled the power, everything worked fine. I left notes about how to plug the hard drive back in after the computer had booted up. I tried messing with the BIOS settings, but I there wasn’t anywhere to tell it not to boot from USB drives.
Just as I was finishing with the accountant’s office I got a call from my client who wasn’t home. It turns out that we each had separate times written down for the appointment. So, I headed out to her house and got her printer working by right-clicking on it and choosing to use the printer “online.” While I was there she asked about spam filters, I downloaded Cloudmark Desktop and installed it. Then I noticed her AVG was out of date, so I downloaded the updates (all of this is on dial-up by the way). Then she asked me how to backup her pictures onto CD so I installed Picasa (I had that one with me).
By the time I was finished with my last client the sun had gone down so I went home to work on the newsletter.
Two items that were on my list to work on when I had a chance today never got done.
I do not intend to make a travel log every day for Shotgun, but I thought today, for my first entry, it worked well.
