Chapter 96

Crashes. There are all kinds and none of them are fun or something you want to go through very often. Yesterday Brenda and I both had crashes. Her’s was the total culture shock of realizing that she was in America and maybe for good. It shocked her system all the way down to the meltdown point. So she melted down, and cried a lot and eventually worked her way through the mental and emotional quagmire of reverse culture shock once again.

My meltdown wasn’t a personal one, I have been in the states since March 15th and mostly well past the reverse culture shock tremors. My crash was the computer crash. Unfortunately it was not my computer, but rather the bosses computer and while I successfully got rid of the virus that had been plaguing him, I also broke the bridge to all the financial data for his entire business!!  Seven hours later and tech support from all over the world later, we got some of it back, most of it back, but still are missing the last 37 days of financial data. 

Since I haven’t really used a computer in the last 10 years or so, I am solidly an iPad guy, this was a particularly challenging crash for me. Not physically painful like my dead armadillo crash on Father’s Day, but still painful in an emotional way, like Brenda’s crash. I did harm to my friends business no matter how innocently or not. And I stayed there trying to correct the error until there was nothing left that could be done. Hoping that today we have a crash-free day.