June 28

After feeling sick yesterday evening and enduring a mostly sleepless night, I got up this morning and discovered that my laptop had decided to quit on me. No matter what I did, it wouldn't turn on. But this guy came to the rescue almost immediately.

Just a minute after I remarked that I couldn't get it to work, he abandoned his own activity and tried to it himself. He did a web search to troubleshoot, which led him to determine that he needed to take it apart. But in order to do that, he needed to drive 30 minutes down the freeway to a specific store in order to buy the correct tools to pry it open. So off the store he went. For me.

When all was said and done, he wasn't able to get it to work, so we replaced it this afternoon. But I'm humbled and touched by his dedication to getting it sorted out for me. Of all of the people in this world, I'm probably most likely to take him for granted, but ironically, he's probably my biggest blessing of all. And it's definitely good to be reminded of that now and again.