{"id":508,"date":"2009-01-04T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T19:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-01-04T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T19:55:00","slug":"grump-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=508","title":{"rendered":"*grump*"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s always something!<\/em><\/p>\n

Giles knocked an entire glass of tea right onto my laptop keyboard. Ker-splash–tea everywhere. Most of it did not hit the computer, I know, because I was mopping it off the table and floor. But the computer keyboard got a good solid dunking.<\/p>\n

I instantly jumped to my feet and flipped the computer over. Amazingly enough, it seemed to be okay. But when I mopped it off externally, two of the rows of keys were combining signals. I shut the computer down, removed the battery, removed the keyboard, gently dried anything that was visibly wet with tea and set everything to air-dry in the kitchen. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that there won’t be any damage–I’ve gotten liquid in keyboards before and dried them out okay. The keyboard has a tight plastic backing and sits on a metal sheet, and it doesn’t appear that any liquid got further than the metal–and very little got under the keyboard.<\/p>\n

Stupid cat. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I’m glad that I’m addicted to plain cold black tea and not soda or coffee with sugar or anything else that would be a hell of a lot harder to mop up. I don’t want to replace the stupid keyboard again!<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m typing this on the netbook, but I didn’t get a chance to back up today’s<\/em> work, and I was in the middle of a book review. Arrrrgggh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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