If You Spill Water On Your MacBook…
June 11th, 2007
Saturday night was not a good one.
First off I was having some annoying back pain issues. Sunday morning I exacerbated it by embarking on a bottle cap reorganization project. The result was lying in a horizontal position feeling useless, and wondering if my entire profession of staring at a computer for hours on end is slowly destroying my body.
Then in the middle of an episode of Grey’s Anatomy, a bottle of water was spilled on my MacBook.
The thing to do in that situation is immediately shut the laptop down (holding the power button down does a forced shut down) and flip it over. I left it upside down with the battery out for all of Sunday to dry out.
Needless to say these two events left me feeling sorry for myself and annoyed at everyone and everything including the cats.
But Sunday morning I fired up my feed reader and read this post by WinExtra – basically reminding me that many of our concerns in the first world are rather petty in the larger scheme of things.
If my laptop is hosed I can afford to buy a new one. If my back pain turns out to be serious I have health insurance.
I also read the news about Paris Hilton and how she can’t even handle being in cold cell by herself with none of her trappings of wealth for less than a month. Has she ever gone camping? Sure, jail is a lot worse than camping with angry inmates, but this is supposed to punishment – that’s why it’s called “jail”. I remember feeling like she doesn’t know how good she has it most of the time and that’s why people are glad (including myself) she finally got what was coming to her.
It’s too easy for any of us to whine and complain about anything that pushes us out of our comfort level. But seriously, for most of us denizens of the upper middle class in America, they are annoying inconveniences, not major setbacks. Paris Hilton, a denizen of the uber top class will eventually get out of jail and go back to her ridiculous, wasteful lifestyle none the worse for wear, to comforts the rest of us will never enjoy in our lifetimes of toiling away towards retirement. I will eventually get over my bad day and go back to my wasteful technological existence of having a laptop as a second computer after making do with just a desktop.
It’s now Monday morning, right before Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, and the MacBook is functioning normally. I guess water in a laptop is tolerable. A fluid with sugar like juice would have been much worse.
But this brief excursion into discomfort, while initially seeming like the end of the world, came to pass by Monday, and I’m strangely grateful.
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It’s funny what pushes each of us over the edge. I am assuming it takes a whole lot more for most of us than it does for the oddly-psychotic Hilton heiress. I’ve become so dependent on my internet connection for work and for school that I can go down 5 mood levels when my router fries. It’s a sad commentary./
I read today Paris compared jail to being “in a cage” during a telephone interview with Barbara Walters. I’m happy that your MAC is dried out and functioning. Your back, however, concerns me. Have you tried turning yourself upside down to see if the water runs out?
Ha ha, funny thoughts. Seems like after the intial shock hopefully we can get beyond and learn from these uncomfortable situations life hands us.
I wish I could turn myself upside down on my own but will probably just try a hot shower and an early bed. Feeling better today, already.
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