First it was all about adding items to the start menu for my friend Greg. Not a big problem, since I just had to try it and find a way around all the “help” given to you by “helpful” computers. This was Linux, after all, so it was a little harder than, say, the Mac or Windows.

Then a friend called me to ask me how to compile sendmail on Solaris. This is standard system administration and a job that I interviewed for. I was one of two people at the end, but they hired someone else. For some reason that someone else never seems to be around to fix anything, so my friend is always calling me to see how I’d do it. That hardly seems fair.

I was also fixing my sister’s laptop, and my brother-in-law called to see if I could fix the ringtone on his fancy new cell phone. Somehow he got it stuck saying, “Hello Moto,” instead of ringing like a sane person’s phone.