Today was quite stressful. I got up early to write an essay that was due today. In Cross Country practice, I felt like crap, and when I got home from school, or rather practice, I moved my mouse, and my monitor did not come on.

My computer would not respond. I even tried to get to my computer through the network, but it was unresponsive with no output or input capabilities. When I turned it off then on again, it would not read the disk. I tried messing with the switches, but that didn't work. Then I started swapping out hardware with an identical computer (my dad bought 3 at the time back in 1999) to find out which piece was broken. I narrowed it down to the piece that has the PCI slots on it, and ruled out a power surge via the network card (that had happened to the file server a while ago). I put the computer back to gether with the original parts minus the modem, and it worked as if nothing had happened other than the CMOS being reset.

All that I did was take it apart to very small pieces, and put it back together, and it worked. This happened to me another time also; at Calvary Christian School (the school where I spent grades 6 to 9), there was a stereo system with a 5 cd changer that they were throwing away because no sound was comming out of it. I decided to take it rather than let them throw it away. I took it apart to the smallest piece, put it back together again, and it worked perfectly. I still have it in my room today, and it still work. This type of situation does seem pretty odd.