The lappie had a battery replacement a little over a week ago, and it turns out that you're supposed to put thermal paste on your heat sink when you do stuff to it. Eeewps! ;)
Around the same time as the battery was getting replaced, I dropped my cell phone into a glass of water. It's sort of like.... remember when I got an 800 on the math portion of the GRE? It was the opposite of that.
Long story short, Saturday morning (5 days after the water-drop incident) comes around, and my phone speakers decide to die. I have a friend in town, a wedding to go to, and a work trip to leave for in less than 24 hours. It has been the longest couple of days of my life. All I could do was send/receive text messages (and I could hear most voice mails). It was like having a d*mn telegraph machine.
"Phone spkr broken. Pls bring food. Snow has blocked pony express."
Imagine trying to coordinate with someone to drop you off at the airport, pick you up at the airport, take you to the Gilroy Garlic festival, etc, with a freaking telegraph machine! I ended up having to use a payphone at the airport at one point. I couldn't look up directions, nor could I call a laptop repair shop (as if they'd be open on Sunday anyway.) The one pay phone call cost over a dollar.
You end up spending a lot more time sitting around. When you talk to someone, you make a meeting plan and stick to it. No wandering around assuming, "oh they'll just call if they can't find me."
Lappie is back up and running, so I can resume my
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LOL. More like 1996 style. :)
Yeah, more or less. :P Except back then we all had land lines as well as the cell phone, and now I don't have one (haven't had one for years).
Some of us didn't have cell phones until 2005. Like everyone in my family. That's more of what I was thinking.
Just think of all the plot lines that would be totally ruined nowadays because of cell phones. Like "Adventures in Babysitting." Totally ruined.
ROFL!! I love that movie.
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