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This morning bright and early I called in to the local computer repair and told them about my problem. They say sure, they can fix it, but they are swamped and it will take at least a week and a half until they can even open it up to see what the problem might be, and then who knows how long before they can fix the problem. And, from how I described the problem, that it probably wasn't the install of the antivirus software, but rather an underlying issue, and that there's no telling how long it would take to find and fix it.
Me: in a week and a half I'm going on vacation. Where I will be at home, in the same town as the computer guy who sold me the laptop in the first place, who is a very good IT guy and also a guy who gets a TON of business from my Dad and will therefore probably jump me to the head of the line. And, if it is an underlying issue, might give me a discount on fixing it since he was the one who sold it to me.
So that's what I'm doing.
The issue is, my work laptop is terrible. It's old and sloooooooow and that's why I've been using my personal laptop to do everything work related since the lockdown started. And my work laptop is, um, not suited for things like video editing and teleconferencing. (Neither of which I had to do before covid. I mean, it was slow and annoying, but perfectly capable of things like writing stuff in Word and posting stuff on Facebook and sending emails.) So if I can just get through this week, Sunday afternoon I am getting in my car and driving to my parents' place and I'm doing the Monday-Thursday work from there, where I can borrow laptops that actually have enough speed and power to do the stuff I need in a reasonable time. (My parents, being professional photographers, have really robust computers.)
But to get through this week ... the online pre-recorded worship service gets filmed in chunks which I then edit together, and there's no way around that. My work laptop does not have a card reader to read the camera's SD card. My old personal laptop, which still works but is Windows 7, has a cardreader but no video editing software (and good luck finding it for Win7 at this point). So I will be transferring the files to a thumb drive using the old personal Win 7 machine, and then putting them on the work laptop and editing it there. I am currently trying a trial run to see if this is going to work at all or if I need to come up with something else.
Me: in a week and a half I'm going on vacation. Where I will be at home, in the same town as the computer guy who sold me the laptop in the first place, who is a very good IT guy and also a guy who gets a TON of business from my Dad and will therefore probably jump me to the head of the line. And, if it is an underlying issue, might give me a discount on fixing it since he was the one who sold it to me.
So that's what I'm doing.
The issue is, my work laptop is terrible. It's old and sloooooooow and that's why I've been using my personal laptop to do everything work related since the lockdown started. And my work laptop is, um, not suited for things like video editing and teleconferencing. (Neither of which I had to do before covid. I mean, it was slow and annoying, but perfectly capable of things like writing stuff in Word and posting stuff on Facebook and sending emails.) So if I can just get through this week, Sunday afternoon I am getting in my car and driving to my parents' place and I'm doing the Monday-Thursday work from there, where I can borrow laptops that actually have enough speed and power to do the stuff I need in a reasonable time. (My parents, being professional photographers, have really robust computers.)
But to get through this week ... the online pre-recorded worship service gets filmed in chunks which I then edit together, and there's no way around that. My work laptop does not have a card reader to read the camera's SD card. My old personal laptop, which still works but is Windows 7, has a cardreader but no video editing software (and good luck finding it for Win7 at this point). So I will be transferring the files to a thumb drive using the old personal Win 7 machine, and then putting them on the work laptop and editing it there. I am currently trying a trial run to see if this is going to work at all or if I need to come up with something else.
