The Janis Family


Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Computer that Daenon Built

Christmas was really great for Daenon. He got the components to build a super power computer. We decided to let him have his present early because we knew it would take him a little while to put it together. 


We sent him on a major scavenger/clue type hunt where he had to call different family members and solve clues, puzzles, riddles, or find answers to questions to get letter and numbers that would give him the location of his gift. It took him a good half of the day. Grandpa and Grandma Dover gave him family history questions, Kylee a sudoko puzzle, Shalayne a cross word puzzle, Meghan gave him a riddle about a movie her children love, Ron made him learn about arthritis, Auna had a scripture related clue, Ryan gave him a riddle. This was Ryan's riddle: 2 in a Corner, 1 in a room, none in a house, and one in a shelter. What is it? I'll give you the answer at the bottom of this post. Brandon gave him 2 questions from the Constitution, Dover gave him a math problem, and my questions came for the December New Era. The computer parts were located at Damon and Tiffany's home. Once he had all the letters it didn't take him long to figure out that they matched Damon and Tiffany's address. We went to their home and Brandon had the computer parts hidden all through out the house. He had a note from a devious elf that gave him the clues to the location of each item. 


Once he found everything he was soooo excited to get started. He ran into a lot of problems. This was a complicated computer he wanted to build. (He's had the parts for this computer picked out for several months, unknown to him we order the parts from his list of what he wanted.) He learned alot. The mother board was DOA (dead on arrival). That was a big hurdle. Ryan,over the phone, helped Daenon learn how to test the mother board and other computer parts. Daenon learned a lot.  It took him 5 days  to get it up and running. When he had working he was so excited and felt such a sense of accomplishment. It is a fast computer.  Everyday he he goes on and on about how much he loves his computer.  (Riddle answer: the letter R.)

2 comments:

  1. You guys are amazing! Way to go Daenon!

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  2. What a great idea! Daenon would love to talk to my brother, who loves putting computers together.

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