I know this is kind of a boring subject, but it is so important!

Just last night I helped my cousin who was having problems with his laptop and it turns out his hard drive is dead!

He doesn’t have any backups, and all of his information is gone, unless he wants to go through an expensive data recovery process of a $500 minimum up to $3,000.

Back up can be really, really, easy especially if you have a Mac because all you have to do is:

1. Run down to Walmart and grab an external hard drive and plug it in.
2. Your Mac will ask if you want to use it for Time Machine backup you say “Yes” and it starts backing up.

It’s that easy!

If you have a laptop you can hook up a hard drive to your network so you can back up wirelessly and it will back up every time you come home and connect to the network.

Here’s a quick video on how to work Time Machine:

So lately we have been going in circles with Chandra’s school be cause she is so behind in reading.

What is her problem?

Dyslexia!

Yep, Just like her Great Great Grandpa, Great grandpa, Great Uncle, Uncle, and Dad she has the gift!

Having dealt with dyslexia all my life I’m 28 and I still don’t read very fast and some things are really difficult for me I’m also horrible speller.

So here is a video that explains how it feels to be dyslexic in school:
(while a little corny and annoying horrible voices this video is very accurate as far as how it feels to actually have dyslexia and be in the public school system)

So what are we doing about it?

Well we meet with her teacher Mrs. Chadaz her Principle Mr. Gregoire special ed teacher Mrs. Lindsey and her speech therapist Kerstin Oquist.

So far the only thing we have come up with is to have her use the same tools I use which are:

1. Dictation on my computer and my phone.
2. Text to speech converter both on my computer and my phone.
3. Spell check.

We are also looking at putting her in a private school there is one here in St. George called liberty Academy they are at LDS faith based private school that works with this Utah center for dyslexia. One reason we haven’t transferred her is cost private school is not cheap!

Another reason we haven’t transferred her she likes her school and doesn’t know how she feels about transferring. We may try and do some sort of tutoring at Liberty Academy so she can get a feel for both while her public school is trying to do things that they can do in a public school setting to work with her.

Here are some resources I found useful:

• beatingdyslexia.com
• davisdyslexia.com

I will update this post as we learn and come up with new resources.

I know what you’re thinking, and Yes, I do have some weight to loose. We did the bodpod, I was at about 30% body fat after loosing 10Lbs! 8-12% is lean and over 30% is overweight!
My total fat mass was 60Lbs so needed to loose another 30+ pounds, to get back to lean which is where I want to be. Now you’re thinking there’s no way, I have seen you your 6’6″ and you can’t loose any weight their won’t be any of you left. Well ok so being my height and my weight is normal but I’m not very muscly, so I need to loose fat and build muscle. First is the fat.

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Hi I’m Rick. I love computers and have been fascinated by technology and the way things work for as long as I can remember, so if you can break it I can fix it.  I Have been providing tech support for over eight years!  I enjoy solving tech problems and always look for ways I can improve my customers efficiency and productivity.  My vast experience with all aspects of technology allows me to help my customers in each of their individual needs.  While I can fix all of your technological woes I also look forward to teaching clients about all the ins and outs of their devices.

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