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New laptop trumps a... |
"Daddy, can I watch you connect the computer wires...?" he asked me once upon a time. Never mind that it is "may" instead of "can" or "cables" instead of wires, I've got a teachable moment where I'm showing my "little daddy" man stuff - how to connect a PC's keyboard, mouse, monitor, speakers, microphone, etc... It is nice to have a little boy around to show things to.
Little boys don't stay little for long.
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cake... |
Last week I paid this
little boy young man $7.00 to get my website header centered. If that weren't enough, in anticipation of his upcoming 14th birthday, the extended family and we pooled our resources and bought him a new Dell Inspiron laptop. By the end of the day, he had it set up to dual boot
Ubuntu with
Windows 7 faster than you can say "
Linux Distribution." Then he re-configured an old laptop he had been using with
Linux Mint.
If you don't know what it means to dual boot a computer, just ask your local 14 year old.
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and even pants. |
Oh, to have his life and be 14 again.
The laptop pushed the envelope as far as birthday budgets go, but hey, it is an investment in his career. 18 is only 4 short years away. Egad!
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Sounds like your young man indeed has found a good side job!!
ReplyDeleteSounds like your young man indeed has found a good side job!!
ReplyDeleteI've never had a new laptop and neither have you! We did this wrong?
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