How to break your laptop
Take 1 full glass of Fresca. Place it on the desk next to your laptop. Now make sure your cat jumps up on the desk right where the glass is, spilling the Fresca all over your less-than-a-year-old Macbook.
Cross your fingers - they might be able to recover my data - but it is likely my machine is totaled. I’m going to wait for the release of Leopard to buy a new laptop - until then I may not be blogging much, if at all.
Thank you fine readers for bearing with me. I shall return soon with a great “how to” post on backing up your data. I will say right now that Flickr and Google Docs are the reasons why the Fresca cat is still my best bud.
Posted on October 8th, 2007 under Blogs by StarXLR8.
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Comment from bill
Time: October 8, 2007, 5:35 pm
You are an amazingly forgiving person. Were it me, we’d be having feline stew after that little adventure. Though that ‘…if at all’ is a little scary! Good luck on your recovery. A new MacBook…awesome.
Comment from starxlr8
Time: October 8, 2007, 5:52 pm
Thanks Bill. Being almost-divorced and on my own for the first time, she’s the difference between being simply-lonely and lonely-crazy. Also, since this is the first glass she has spilled in 7 years, the damages were overdue.
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Time: October 20, 2007, 5:11 pm
[...] In May I posted about some of the changes in my life. I felt that things were moving forward, looking up. While change is still underfoot, I can’t help but feel less optimistic. For starters, the house has still not sold. The market is tanking nationwide and I decided to conveniently get divorced during the downslide. I’m having trouble even finding someone to rent it. Don’t people need housing? Then there’s the sad death of my Macbook. Owning this house has drained my once abundant savings to almost nothing, so I’m not sure how soon I can replace the sparkling white gem of modern electronic communication. Am I being punished for going after a higher level of happiness? I was taught to not be content with “just enough”, but I am struggling to find the energy to stay positive in this very challenging year. I remember telling a friend “I hope 2007 is the worst year I have.” As the year comes to its final few months, I still hope that is true. 2008 has got to be better. Even November and December have got to be better. I know I have a lot to be grateful for, but I feel that for every step forward, I get knocked a few steps back. [...]
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