I drove us
to Portland. I had said it was supposed to be a three hour drive, and it
actually took us two hours and fifty minutes to get there (yes, my dad kept
track). We picked up his car, as good as new, and dropped off my car at a place
a couple blocks away that fixes auto glass. The business is called Action Auto
Glass, and the owner assured us that the windshield just needed a patch, not a
replacement. That was a relief.
My computer
problem was more complicated. I kept up an e-mail correspondence with Maude,
who when I gave her the exact words of the error message informed me that it
sounds like MS Windows is corrupted. I couldn’t find the original Windows disk,
so I called up Office Depot and explained the problem.
Unfortunately,
the guy on the phone said that the Windows disk is specific to the computer, so
you can’t just borrow it from someone else; you have to contact the
manufacturer and buy a new one.
After some
more correspondence with Maude, I contacted the manufacturer, and via e-mail a
staff member gave me step-by-step directions for downloading a cleaning-up program
that’s on the computer. After I backed
up all my files on a DVD-rom, and ran this program and saved it onto two
DVD-roms as instructed, I restarted the computer. That’s what it took to solve
the computer problem. It actually took me about a month to get it all cleared
up. Sigh.
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