I've just spent the last 45 minutes of a road trip trying to adjust the brightness on my laptop. My wife is driving so I could get in a little extra time on an assignment (I'm working on another degree at WGU). The display was so dim I could barely make out any detail at all. I tried various help pages for the operating system and laptop manufacturer. I tried loading updated drivers. I went to several blog pages and tried many of the ideas that were posted there. All to no avail. Then I noticed the little light sensor at the bottom of the screen, and wiped my finger across it. Voila! If the screen were any brighter I could toast marshmallows.
This reminds me of when we took the kids to Hogle Zoo a few weeks ago. We rented one of their larger strollers so we could put the little one and a cooler in it. One of the bigger kids pushed it around for awhile, all the time complaining that it wasn't very easy to push. Finally, tired of hearing all the whining, I took over, and immediately noticed that it really was kind of hard to propel forward. By the time we made it back to the rental stand at the end of the day, I was ready to give them a piece of my mind. How dare they issue a stroller before at least checking it out for proper operation. The young man operating the booth was very kind as he showed me how to release the parking break.
I think we often make life more difficult than it needs to be. When you feel you're reaching the end of your patience, start looking around for the parking break. Really.
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