Yet another reason to give up coffee
When should you REALLY give up coffee?
When you make the perfect cup of cappa, sit down to browse the net, and knock the perfect cappa over onto your new laptop.
How do you know that you have your priorities in order and money means nothing to you?
When, instead of rushing to remove the keyboard and mop up the coffee to save the computer, you grab your portable drive, plug it in and transfer your photos before the computer can shut down forever…..when they are all safely copied, then and only then do you remove the keyboard and clean up the mess.
**I had JUST reformatted my memory card on my camera, deleting over 1200 photos from it, so I was freaking out because I had not moved them from my laptop to my external, portable drive. For those who think I am nuts, I spilled at least 2-4 oz onto it, so felt that it had for sure seeped into the mother board and I would only have a short window of time to transfer the photos. Status on the ‘puter is that it appears that it just blew out my keyboard and did not make it into the “guts”…..only time will tell.
That’s not even funny. Really traumatic. Think I will go back up the laptop now. How’s the eye tic?
I was in tears when a few years ago one of the boys spilled 7-up on an old laptop…all I cared about were the pictures, too! I called my dad bawling, “what do I do??!!”. It ruined the keyboard forever but the harddrive was fine. I now have a warranty on my current laptop that allows for me to drop kick it in the pool, run it over with a truck and smash a hammer thru the monitor, and it will all be replaced. You know, the kind of insurance every mom needs.
Here’s hoping that once the keyboard dries out it will come back to life…. (crossing my fingers for you!)