The Tech guy

So my lot in life is to fix things it seems.  I don't mind, truly I think I'm pretty good at it or at least I have a mind for this type of thing.  I find I have a knack for isolating things with a/b testing to come up with a decent explanation of what is going on and a course forward to fixing it.  If my own reasoning doesn't sort it out fast enough there is always google and the wealth of information on the internet.

Here's the thing, it gets a little overwhelming.  My own hobbies aside Last weekend my Mother In Law managed to cook a computer by touching two usb cables together (seriously I wouldn't believe it unless I saw the melted usb cable myself) so I helped them procure and setup a new one.  I still have the recovery of their files from the old one to get done.  My Mom needs windows 7 (so she thinks and I don't trust the local yocals in her town to do the job without loosing all of her pictures) so that is coming down the pipe on my birthday weekend.  My wife's iPod touch won't sync her movies for some reason so I fixed that last night with a factory restore and sync from backup.  My Dad broke his ereader (for reals it's broken, looks like impact to me).  I work in I.T. so yeah sometimes just my day to day gets me ground to a pulp trying to fix 60ish needy 40+ year old children.  My Mom wants me to sell her old iPhone, and I have an old iPod touch to sell, my wife and I are trying to figure out a way to play music in the boys room in a simple manner, I have a micro-cnc router that I'm trying to build, I will be receiving my Twine in a few weeks for monitoring temperatures in a friends crawlspace to see if we can use it for barrel aging beer.  On top of all of this I really want to play MW3 and I have a 5 month old son and a wife.