I gave the EQ lesson on Sunday on Elder Wirthlin's talk, "Come What May and Love It", I realize now that it was really me that needed this lesson. Last night my niece was over from BYU and she needed to do some musical theory teaching for a class she is taking. We ate dinner together and then went to the living room to record the lesson. It had to be with at least four children, well I recorded the event on my daughter's Flip camcorder. The instruction went well, I downloaded the video to one of my computers and found after I got everything setup in Nero that the DVD/CD burner drive was kaputt on the machine with Nero. So I went to our new machine which was purchased for the family for Christmas and that DVD/CD burner was kaputt too. Oh, my niece needs to have the teaching session on a DVD. So, I will be replacing two drives, I'll get the DVD burnt but I needed to heed the words of the talk better than I did last night. I kept asking myself outloud what are my children doing on these computers. Was anyone around when this happened? Of course someone was, my children. :DOne of the DVD drives had a Reader Rabbit disk in it and it exploded. (See the picture above!) I'd seen this happen one other time. I got all the fragments out of the disc drive but the laser that reads the discs is shot. Now I have a funny thought about this experience, perhaps there was a mission impossible type question and it was not accepted. :D
The other computer's DVD drive was stuck in the open position when I went over to use it. I was able to get the drive to close eventually and now I can get the drive to open but closing it requires extra force. If there is a disc in the drive then it takes even more time and more force. I'm worried that once I get it closed with a disc in it, it will refuse to open again period. I'm replacing this DVD drive as well.
