Miracle Laptop

I learned something very interesting the other day... sadly out of necessity. I left my laptop in sleep mode while my husband and I went to the movies (by the way Frozen is wonderful! I highly suggest taking the little ones to see it). When we returned home, about 4 hours later, both out computers somehow were jostled out of sleep mode, possibly from a power jolt, but mine never “woke-up”.  All I had was a bunch of flashing lights, taunting me with their agonizing rhythm, but the computer itself wouldn’t load past the point to access the hard drive.
Screw-driver out, back off – battery out, unplug the memory, check for shorts –nothing I did seemed to wake my laptop. I even thought about calling in a professional prince for a “true-love’s kiss” but… well I remembered how that worked for Anna. See Frozen. We poured over message boards noticing several people had the exact problem with my same model laptop. Some managed to get there’s to work, some ended up sending it into the great laptop reciprocal in the sky. We tried all the sane approaches – nothing worked. It was to the point I was moving the old desk-top back to my desk so I could work; December isn’t the best time to find a good deal on the laptop that I would need.
Yesterday, after hours of pulling my hair out over updating the old computer, (it’s amazing how many updates there are when you haven’t turned a computer on in two years) my husband suggested the second most insane, unorthodox suggestion we read about – using a hairdryer to overheat my laptop’s system. The most insane was sticking the mother board in the oven on 350 for a half-hour. Either way, it was as if some one had suggested putting my puppy in the microwave on the bake-potato setting. My heart cringed, but what choice did I have? What good is a dead laptop regardless of the warm-fuzzy feeling I had for it? We tried it three times blowing the hairdryer directly into the vents…nadda!  Same time, would you believe the desktop computer I switched to freezes up? The two years of updates nearly killed it as well. Frustrated, and believing I’m suddenly cursed from ever touching another computer, I tossed up my hands and went to grab a cup of coffee in the kitchen—the furthest possible room from my office. Meanwhile my husband’s still giving my laptop a $100 salon blow-out. Ten minutes later he flipped it open, turned it on… low-and-behold it WORKED! For how long? I have no clue. Hopefully long enough that I can buy one in a month or two. The back of the laptop is slightly melted, but hey! Seeing the screen pop back to life made me realize just how attached we, as humans, can get attached to a piece of office equipment. Heck, I still get teary over seeing my old laptop in the garage. I guess when you spend so much time with something, regardless if it’s alive or not, it becomes a part of you. No wonder I keep dreaming in 1’s and 0’s.  I’m just grateful I don’t staple for a living… though I hear it’s a
So… laptop = dead + hairdryer = born again laptop. HALLELUJAH! It’s a Christmas mirical. My hairdryer saved the life of my laptop. Now, go see Frozen-- at a theater near you, just make sure to turn off your laptop before going.