the howie

I was just sitting happily at my desk doing some interweb surfing and I thought to myself, I don’t need the light on, all i’m doing is looking at an already lit up screen.

So i turned the light off.

On returning to my desk I knocked over a very large glass of water which took my MacBook Pro on a whole new level of web surfing.

The water managed to wet my iPhone, Macbook Pro, TV, desk speakers, numerous on power cords and adapters, papers, the entire desk, my lap and facade of desk drawers. With a splash on the side of the new work hard drive i brought home.

in reality it all happened extremely quickly. In my head however it was like watching Kevin Costner’s ‘waterwold’  it was a soggy saga that dragged on for what felt like months.

The first thing i did was quickly shut my computer and rip out the mag safe power cord that for the first time in it’s life actually held up some resistance in being removed.

Then it was off with power points and out with the tissues as there was no time to go and find a towel from the linen cupboard that would create the following statement from the better half ….

“what did you use that towel for, the electrical equipment drying towel is the one under the stairs at the bottom of the second pile next to the platter we got from your Aunty, I’ve told you that a million times, you’re using the second bathroom emergency bath mat.”

Cleaning up a lot of spilled water with tissues takes a long time and it also leaves a lot of water behind.

I did what i thought was all the drying and decided i should take a closer look at my laptop.

The USB ports where a bit damp and a bit of splash on the keyboard, nothing 75 tissues couldn’t fix.

But then i noticed water might have snuck in through the gap in the unibody.

The problem with macs is that they use the world’s smallest screws and for someone with bad isight it’s hard enough to find all the screws let a lone un screw them.

Luckily my wife has a repair kit in her car that should do the job.

I went out and got her handy toothpick size screwdriver set and began unscrewing the tiny screws.

Once inside i noticed there was no water at all.

So I put the case back together with a few disheartening cracking noises and turned it all back on to write a blog post.

As for all the other equipment  it all seems dry now, but boy oh boy I could do with a glass of water after all that!