Argh, Dyspraxia Strikes Again
Jan. 23rd, 2015 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidgillonMore specifically my flailing arm struck the side of my pint glass of rum and coke last night, upending it into the laptop.
Obviously I grabbed the laptop and immediately inverted it to drain, but not in time to stop in announcing a hardware failure.
On the positive side it's eight years old and I was supposed to be going out and looking for a new one this week anyway.
On the negative side there's some un-backed up stuff on there, mostly game-related stuff I did over Christmas, I can live without it if need be and I can probably recreate it, though it'll be time consuming.
I'm going to leave it to dry out for a couple of days and then see if it'll boot, if it doesn't I can still pull the hard-drive and see if that works, but really I'd have been much happier if the rum and coke had ended up in me, not the laptop!
Obviously I grabbed the laptop and immediately inverted it to drain, but not in time to stop in announcing a hardware failure.
On the positive side it's eight years old and I was supposed to be going out and looking for a new one this week anyway.
On the negative side there's some un-backed up stuff on there, mostly game-related stuff I did over Christmas, I can live without it if need be and I can probably recreate it, though it'll be time consuming.
I'm going to leave it to dry out for a couple of days and then see if it'll boot, if it doesn't I can still pull the hard-drive and see if that works, but really I'd have been much happier if the rum and coke had ended up in me, not the laptop!
