Work log
Real jobs, written up as repair tags. I leave out names on purpose, since this is a small county and people don’t need their laptop trouble on a website. Each tag has the problem, what I did, the price, and how it ended. That includes the one I couldn’t save.
Video & audio · VHS tape, already digitized
A family party shot on a VHS camcorder, later transferred to a video file. The sound came through badly distorted. I worked through all 43 minutes of audio.
The voices came back out.
$100Fall 2026
Laptop repair · HP laptop, 2021
The drive was fine. It was a storage setup HP used around 2021 that fails in a way nobody warns you about. New SSD, fresh Windows 11.
Back to the owner in three days.
$150Fall 2026
Speed-up · Dell 2-in-1, 2017
The old spinning hard drive was the bottleneck. Swapped in an SSD, doubled the memory, clean install of Windows 11.
Same machine, feels new.
$150 with partsSummer 2026
Diagnosis · iPad, 2012
I couldn’t save this one, and I said so. I still went through it to make sure the photos weren’t trapped inside before handing it back.
An honest answer instead of a bigger bill.
$30Summer 2026
House call · Windows PC
Tracked down the adware that came bundled with something else and removed it.
No more pop-ups.
$60Spring 2026
The prices above are what these jobs cost. For how I work out a price, see pricing. You can also find me on Facebook (opens in a new tab).
Tell me what’s going on in a sentence or two. I usually reply the same day with what I think is wrong and roughly what it would cost.
