WOO HOO!

I've been missing for awhile - sorry about that. My computer was comatose for about the past two weeks, which is better than dead as it turns out.

The story starts on X-mas eve morning...I was working away at some trivial thing, when i happened to knock over my pint glass full of coffee (yes a pint glass - i like the familiarity of it) onto the laptop :(

Turns out that a computer living in the NW doesn't like coffee as much as the rest of us do, go figure. I took it down to the Apple store at Pioneer Place mall and they took it away from me to let it dry on a shelf for a few days. After X-mas they called and said my computer was dead and would require their Tier 1 service repair which costs $1240.00. Not wanting to spend that I took my machine back supposedly still broken with a parts list for a logic board, optical drive, keyboard, topcase and an LVDS cable.

Kim and I spent a week debating the repair cost versus another machine, while her friend Joe held onto and checked around to see if he could get the parts cheaper and do the repairs (Thanks Joe). Turns out it wasn't necessary. My little macbook pro just needed some more time to rest before it wanted to go back to work.

But here I am typing up this little blog post on my laptop the same dining room table, but my coffee is sitting safely on the kitchen counter. And now I'm wondering if Apple was trying to rip me off or if the store techs didn't even look at my machine. I have certainly lost faith in their customer service, which before I thought was pretty good.

If this happens to you - REMOVE YOUR BATTERY FIRST! Do not push any keys or buttons. And even though none of my keys are really sticky - Joe said it wasn't a smart idea of me to run the computer under the kitchen tap to clean off the coffee.

So Happy New Year.