The Punchline to Yesterday’s Joke

So after all that — hours spent on the phone with various faraway Dell representatives; not one but two visits from a local technician; a week spent waiting for a new computer system when the first was supposedly broken — after all that, the problem turned out to be a single faulty cable, something we could have fixed in about thirty seconds if we had simply thought to check for it. Dell is sending me a new cable. And that’s the end of that chapter.