oh no!

[percival]

Misjudged my centre of gravity and spilled a little water over the laptop keyboard yesterday evening. I still don't have a desk set up, so was doing some work on the bed. Some touchpad and persistent keyboard malfunctions later, I shut it down. It shut down gracefully, but wouldn't power back up. The computer is now drying out.

I've ordered a hard drive enclosure for my HDD, which stayed dry. (the one I have doesn't fit the Hitachi Travelstar in the DELL) to be delivered tomorrow (i.e. ASAP).

Trying to keep my composure. So much to do, so little time, so powered out that I can't work weekends anymore.

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[acusa-dora.livejournal.com]

If you can dry it out completely, it might be okay because it's only water. I spilled diet pepsi on Rick's laptop and it wouldn't power up for a while (like a few weeks) He had to take it into work and have it fixed, but I'm not sure what they did.

[perceval.livejournal.com]

It's just water, and it's really hot and dry here right now. My husband is cursing ...

This centre of gravity thing is really weird by the way - for a while, I didn't venture to the upper floor of double decker busses because I felt that I might topple over any second. It doesn't help that baby's fancying a growth spurt. Walking speed is severely reduced.