“Hey! Hello in there, laptop! What you got that’s worth living for?”
Posted on February 8, 2009
Filed Under A Geek's Guide to the Scriptures, My Paper Jesus | Leave a Comment
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Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles…. guess what happened last night?!?–and this morning, actually.
Let me explain. No, there’s too much. Let me sum up: It was as if Miracle Max was saying to me “It just so happens that your friend here (pointing to my laptop) is only MOSTLY dead.”
You see, last night one of my sons asked to borrow my Macbook Pro. He and his friends needed another computer so they could play online games together.
Why not?, I thought. Soon I’ll be ripping its guts out anyway. What could he do to it, melt the logic board?
So he logs in with his account (his, not mine, mind you) and suddenly says, “Hey dad! Look! The display problem is gone.” Son of a widget, he was right!
This meant there was no way it was a hardware issue. The problem had to be somewhere within my account’s preferences. So, this morning dutifully brought the laptop to one of the Geniuses as they had asked me to do last Thursday. But before we dove into more hardware diagnostics, I told him what happened last night.
“Sounds like your preferences to me,” he said. So I asked, “What if I deleted all of my .plist files in my account?” It’s a bit of overkill, sure, but I didn’t want to mess around trying to find the which preference was causing the problem.
“Any harm in that?”, I asked.
“Nope,” he replied, “that should do it all right.”
Sure enough, as soon as I deleted all of my .plist files under my account, voila! The case was solve-ed.
The moral of the story: You rush a miracle man (or Genius), you get rotten miracles.
But the fact that they were rather booked up last Thursday was exactly why they asked me to bring it back today–so they could take a more careful, more thorough look and talk it over, etc.
And the real moral of the story for me is: don’t despair.
Sure, it could have turned out differently, like actually needing a new logic board, or worse. The important thing is that this little issue flushed the dragon out into the open. God made me see who I am, so He could help me work through it.
PS: I also think this was a case of the Real Jesus saying to me “see, that piece of your paper Jesus, the one that says ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ Look at Me, look carefully. Now do you believe that?”
I think I’m starting to.
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