I missed the Stars Game for this?

March 7th, 2008 by Jaybrams

So, yesterday my plan wasn’t to start a political rant… this is what I wanted to talk about:

Wednesday Night was supposed to be a night out with my oldest. We were going to make the trek to the American Airlines Center to take in her first Dallas Stars Hockey game. I’m not a huge hockey fan, I pay attention in passing, but we were excited. It would be a new experience for her and we’d get to spend a good four hours together. Unfortunately it didn’t go so well for me…

Something I ate at lunch decided to mess me up internally. I’ve eaten at this place a dozen times or more and never had any issues, but by the time I got home, I was literally doubling over in pain. I needed to somehow purge whatever it was from my system, and quite frankly I didn’t really care what path it took to be purged. But there was no way I was going to make it through the night…

Dionna was kind enough to change her plans and take Tristen, so its good that they had the time together. And after convincing Mackenzi that its fun to hang out with me, we decided to sit down at the laptop for some fun NickJr games… Dionna gives me a call when they get there and find a parking spot, we chat…

I set the phone down and reach back for the computer, not realizing that directly in the blind spot that my three year old’s sputnik head created was an opened blue powerade which my hand firmly knocked directly onto the laptop…. This is the second drink spilled on this laptop in the last month…

So i did what i could to salvage it then (i now know a lot of other things i could’ve done immediately to help out, but hindsight is 20/20). About 30 minutes later i decided to power it back up and all was well! For about 15 minutes… when it just shut off… and wouldn’t come back on at all… ever… See, this is a problem… while I back up all of my school work to our desktop PC, I don’t have a reliable backup for either computer… and dionna hadn’t backed up her company’s work in a long time… so, this was pretty stressful…

We disassembled it quite a bit, dried out the remaining powerade, cleaned it with rubbing alcohol, and let it all sit out disassembled the rest of the night. When I woke up Thursday morning, i put it all back together, pressed the power button… and… success!

Dionna backed up the rest of her data just in case, but all seems to be in working order… the keyboard is extremely sticky and frustrating, but at least our sanity is intact.

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