You know that you're addicted when...

[ridicully]

The first thing you do after emptying a cup of coffee into your laptop is getting the internet connection of the Old Desktop to work, so you can tell everybody about it.

*hugs backups closely and hopes against hope The Toy will simply dry out*

Comments

[shiun.livejournal.com]

Oh Scheiße. Hast du den Kaffee über die Tastatur geschüttet? Ich habe auf meinem Laptop mal Wein verschüttet, und nachdem ich die Tastatur rausgenommen habe und alles saubergewischt habe und ein, zwei Tage gewartet, ging er wieder. War Zucker im Kaffee? ^^;

[ridicully]

Ich hatte die gesamte (große) Tasse richtig schön gleichmäßig über dem Ding verteilt.
Aber nach 8 Stunden im Backofen läuft es wieder perfekt.
*großes Aufatmen*

[incitata.livejournal.com]

Oh, bad luck. I once spilt a G&T on a work laptop when I was covering overnight from home - it was great fun rushing in to the office at 2am to finish my shift (and to explain why the laptop was leaking).

*fingers crossed for yours*

[ridicully]

Crossed fingers helped! 8 hours in the oven and it's working just fine now.

And drinking G&T while on duty. Shame on you ;P

[incitata.livejournal.com]

It is quite shocking!

The oven ... I'll remember that one, just in case :)

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

Well, internet connection is essential for life.
Now we all know about it, we all cross our fingers that the laptop will survive, and with so many fingers crossed, your laptop has no other choice than surviving the coffee, hasn't it? *crosses fingers that laptop survives*

[ridicully]

An internet connection *is* essential, you're right :)

And all your crossed fingers helped. It's working again. And I've learned to set up an internet connection under linux and know that laptops will survive 8 hours in the oven.
All in all, not as bad a day as it could have been :D

[fluffyllama.livejournal.com]

Eep, I sympathise, I'm still finding my keyboard a pain even though it seems to have mostly dried out okay. Coffee not good *sigh*

[ridicully]

No, coffee not good.
But ovens are *very* helpful to dry out laptops. 8 hours and it's working perfectly fine.
*is very, very relieved*