22nd December 2011

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This morning, I managed to spill a glass of water directly into the keyboard of my laptop. As I am someone who prides myself on never having mixed water and electronics (no “Dropped my cell phone in a toilet, so give me all your phone numbers!” Facebook groups for me), this was incredibly disheartening. Also disheartening, reading MacForums’s lengthy, myriad topics about spilling liquid on/near/under/into your computer, seeing success stories about successful revivals, and then finding a thread that exactly mirrors my experience — directly into the keyboard, computer shutting itself down within seconds — and seeing people commenting that there’s a .01% chance of that computer working again.

I’ve got it hanging out upside down, and I’m going to take the case off tonight to let the parts dry. Not even attempting to start it up for another few days, so I’ll be suuuuper behind on Tumblr. I might make small updates from my phone, but if you think I’m checking my dash on it, you’re crazy. Vacation starts next week, so I won’t even have my work computer — unless I have to deskwarm.

I know my computer has been alive for 5 years now. I’m also not pulling out my hair right now because I use my 500G external hard drive for nearly everything, or at least everything important. But I really wasn’t planning on buying a new laptop until next year, and I really can’t afford to replace a Mac right now and don’t want to buy a PC instead.

Let’s hope for a Christmas miracle. I’m crossing my everything, and I’m praying to Santa Claus.

Also also disheartening:

talkinboutstuffseoul said: LOL YOU’RE GOING TO BE ENGAGED BY 2012 LOL

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  1. cumshotkorea said: I think his present is asking to get married too! I was thinking it all along but I didn’t want to say it lest you got upset~~someone said it first so you can’t hate me for saying it kekekeke
  2. coffeejusayo said: I have Mac woes atm too!!! Luckily I’m at home, where everyone owns a Mac (lol) and I also have my stuff backed up on my external harddrive. Only sucks if I have to pay for an expensive repair. Let’s save up and buy iMacs together 8)
  3. scwlove said: arghh someone spilled Sprite on my laptop when I was at uni. it was alright after a while..but some of the keys didn’t work and i had to copy and paste the letter ‘p’ when i was writing essays and so on. urgh! good luck!
  4. evethegreat said: One of my students spilled water directly on my keyboard last year. When it dried out the computer still worked but they keyboard didn’t, I just had to plug in a keyboard for the rest of the year.
  5. talkinboutstuffseoul said: Sorry. I couldn’t help myself.
  6. claretea said: Yikes, thats exactly what happened to my mac earlier this year. Except replace water with beer. I think as long as you didn’t try to turn it back on (like I did) then you may be ok. You should take it to the mac store in MyeongDong they helped me out
  7. nateonseoul said: are you reasonably tech savvy? could always do a hackintosh.
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