Chapter 2 – Tony
June 28th, 2007 (Story)My first day of work was a beautiful sunny day. I drove over right after school and arrived feeling good about life and confident about this new venture. After doing a quick glance over the building in which I would be spending my future afternoons 5 days a week, I opened the door and walked. “Zeidner, is that you?” yelled a voice from the back of the building. “Yeah”, I answered. “C’mere and I’ll show you how to build a computer” Tony bellowed back. Now, Jeff and Tony both owned and ran the business together, but Tony was the more creative and passionate of the two. Jeff on the other hand liked to stick to the business side of things and was not really a people person. Well, Tony really wasn’t much of a people person either, but he sure had a dynamic personality regardless.
As I slowly made my way through the maze of cable ends and racks of spare parts lining the entry area, I began think about building my first computer. I was in the 8th grade and had never opened up a computer before, but I read in a magazine about a kid who was younger than me that had started building his own computers without having any prior knowledge of electronics. I figured if he could do it, so could I. I picked up a motherboard and some RAM at my school’s local “fun-fair” where they were trying to get rid of old computer inventory. With the help of a couple friends, we successfully upgraded our parent’s old computers.
As my thoughts snapped back to the present moment, I realized I had finally made it to the back of the building where all of the tools and computer parts were lying around in carefully marked bins. Mark and Tony were standing back there holding a parts list and a screwdriver out for me. “Let’s get moving”, said Mark. That day, I learned the proper way to insert RAM, put thermal paste on the processor and anything else that goes into successfully building a computer. The hours flew by so fast that before I knew it, it was time to go home.
“See you guys tomorrow. Same time. Same place.”, I said as I was leaving. “Later.” replied Tony. “Oh, and tomorrow, you’ll get to meet Carol.”
Sounds like a pretty good first day. You’re such a geek at heart =) I can’t wait to hear about Carol.