My hubby changes caps depending on what’s hurled at him. Ever since he was a child there was no such thing as a broken toy. From the time he was little he loved taking his toys apart to “fix” them if they broke or to tinker with them because it was in his genes. He seems to be known wherever we live as the fix it guy as we have neighbors come to him with broken electronics or whatever. This weekend was the weekend to fix his daughters laptop.

His daughter (she’s off to college) just hurled her computer at him as her laptop lid broke (we won’t talk about how that happened). The reason he had her hurl it his way is simple. When she took it in to the Apple store they gave her a quote of $800 to fix it! (GASP) And we were thinking we might just have to get her a new computer since that one is going on 4 years and he didn’t want to put that kind of change into an older computer. But he wanted her to send it to him first so that he could have a look.

So in he started on that little project last week and the new part (just an $8 dollar part + shipping) arrived before the weekend. Over the weekend he was able to replace the broken part and put it all back together seamlessly.

I think the genius part is how he took pictures of each section as he took it apart. and I would print them out full page. He would then proceed to tape each little screw to the picture from where it came from. There were quite a few pictures taken and by the time he had it taken apart, he had quite the little stack of pictures and screws.

An example of a couple pictures to give an idea of what the guts of her lap top look like.

He really had to take that baby apart to get to the injury.

Here’s a picture of her computer with more than half of it put back together.

“He’s the MAN” for being able to fix her computer and I love it that he can do anything. Of course he tells me I’m biased but I believe it to be true. After he finished putting the last screw back in, that baby fired up on command! I don’t have a picture of it but her lap top is already in the mail being shipped back to her today! He never ceases to amaze me but it’s his patience and calm way with things that make me head over heals with my guy…