Bottom line: I’m an imbecile.
Nearly two weeks ago I settled down to a quiet evening. The boys were asleep and Rebel had gone out with her friends. I brewed a mug of tea, set it on the floor and prepared to “foam roller” my consistently tight IT bands. If you have no idea of what I write, you probably have a normal life, pay taxes, have planned for retirement, and see people of color on a regular basis. This being Boulder, well, you know the story.
Anyway, I do a few laps on the roller, never realizing I’m listing towards my mug of tea with each pass and BLAM, my heel strikes the tea, which tips (of course it’s full) and decants its contents into the keyboard of my beloved MacBook Pro.
Screen
dark.
I jump up, as if I’d been tasered, turn the computer over in the hopes I could dry the fluid out of its guts. I pop off the rear panel, disengage the battery…and then the wave of “my god I’m stupid” washes over me. I try to regain my wits and slide into McGyver mode: I preheat the oven to 125, slide in the laptop and let it rest overnight. I repeat the same exercise in the morn. Later that day I finally reconnect the AC power supply, fire it up…and it runs. Perfectly. I disconnect the AC cord and it dies. Instantly.
To the Mac Shack I go. Long story medium, some mystery part could not be isolated and fixed…and I had to let her go. Ergo, my absence from the blog.
Oh well. Fifteen years of pecking on a laptop and finally I destroyed one. I type on a brand new MacBook Pro, complete with HD camera, Thunderbolt port (it’s way fast, so I can transfer data from…well, somewhere), more memory, faster, better video, all the stuff I needed anyway. Or more accurately–never needed in the first place.
Anyway, back in the saddle and headed to Bozeman tomorrow to visit my bro and his family. We’d hoped to ski the Great One on Sacajawea, but it’s overcast and drizzling–no overnight freezes and wet slush falling from angry skies. Another time.
Soon, I hope to be write about ProBar’s new “Halo” bar, Polartec’s new super-breathable NeoShell material, and these insane Julbo glasses I scored…stay tuned.
