In high school I fixed an auto mechanic's PC and he fixed my car.
I've received the best *massage* in my life for 30 minutes of "Getting the internet to work" by setting up their network settings and performing disk scan, cleanup, and defrag. This was several years ago back in college, it did cost me one network cable.
But recently the best thing I've bartered for is with my wife's friend. Her husband is an established builder and he agreed to inspect our house that is in the process of being constructed.
Every week we're heading out to the build site to make sure my current builders don't mess anything up. In return I've put together a decent family PC machine from spare parts. Got their copy of OS on there and locked it down. All parties are happy. Oh don't tell the wife about the massage, and yes it was just a massage - the best I ever had.
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In high school I fixed an auto mechanic's PC and he fixed my car. I've received the best *massage* in my life for 30 minutes of "Getting the internet to work" by setting up their network settings and performing disk scan, cleanup, and defrag. This was several years ago back in college, it did cost me one network cable. But recently the best thing I've bartered for is with my wife's friend. Her husband is an established builder and he agreed to inspect our house that is in the process of being constructed. Every week we're heading out to the build site to make sure my current builders don't mess anything up. In return I've put together a decent family PC machine from spare parts. Got their copy of OS on there and locked it down. All parties are happy. Oh don't tell the wife about the massage, and yes it was just a massage - the best I ever had.