Update: my bench repair log just passed 1000 tickets and I got a weird feeling
I keep a simple spreadsheet of every machine that crosses my bench. Last Friday I typed in ticket 1,000, a Dell Latitude from a dentist office in Raleigh that just needed a new SSD. Sitting there looking at that number made me think about all the dead drives and cracked screens behind it. The weird part is I still remember ticket 12, a Gateway laptop with a bad RAM slot, like it was yesterday. Do any of you track your repairs, and what number made you stop and think?
Ticket 1000 is just a Dell with a boring SSD swap, and ticket 12 lives in your head forever. Funny how the brain works, isn't it? At this rate you'll hit 2000 tickets and still be haunted by some random Compaq from 2011.