Blog #3--Laptop's baptism

Last Friday I did something that was both stupid and an accident. I was playing solitaire while not watching TV and eating. (This is a very bad habit of mine.) I got up to go start another bag of popcorn, set the laptop on the couch, and started for the kitchen. Some instinct made me turn around…just in time for me to see my computer do a nose dive off the couch, tip over my full glass, and come to land face up in the resulting puddle of water. I worked quickly to pull it out, place it away from the water, and dry off the floor. The computer seemed fine, and worked for over a half hour. And then, in the middle of another solitaire game, the monitor went black and three seconds later the computer itself shut off. I tried to turn it back on, but it didn’t work. I was at a loss of what to do, so I called home. My dad told me to let it sit for a few days to let the water out of the cracks. My roommates were sympathetic and let me borrow their laptops, but I still didn’t want to write any of my assignments on someone else’s laptop. One of my roommates suggested that I put my computer in/on a couple of cups of rice, which I did, and leave it to let the rice draw out the water. Monday, right after I ate my dinner, I tried my computer. It worked!!! Now, you’d think I’d have learned my lesson, but just before I began writing this I ate my dinner, with my laptop running and my glass of water sitting on the floor right beside the couch where I was sitting. I guess that I will never get over the fact that I like to multitask—aka eat while I am working. It helps me focus, or at least relax a little, just enough to get the blasted paper written…usually anyway.