— the laid.back buddhist —

Little White Lies

I highly recommend Sony VAIOs. Not one has ever failed in my possession. Instead, I failed them.

That’s right, I’ve managed to destroy my 2nd VAIO notebook, this time in less than a year. Needless to say, at probably the busiest time of the semester, I am royally fucked.

It all started as I was walking out of my Judicial office hours and felt water dripping down the side of my right leg. I dumped everything out on the stairwell nearby, trying not to have a panic attack when I saw a sloshing puddle greet me at the very bottom of my bag. As I pulled my laptop out, water from my bottle was literally dripping raining from it. Sad story short, my laptop did eventually turn back on with some blotchy edges around the screen. Other than that, the screen was in surprisingly good condition…plus, everything else worked fine.

Until…well, until I realized that my AC adapter wasn’t actually charging my laptop.

In horrified denial I watched my laptop go from 40% battery life, to 13%, to 5%…(I held out some hope at 2% because, technically, I have my settings so that if it gets that low, it’s supposed to shut down)…but truth stings with a ominous blip that is the sound of my laptop’s last moment. It refused to be resurrected no matter how many times I pressed that damned power ON button.

Right now, I’m just thankful that I am between projects and didn’t lose any major work. Thankful, that the night before I decided to email my 5 page paper earlier than the Tuesday due date (jeez, when does that ever happen? The Inherent Procrastinator in me is thoroughly confused, yet eternally grateful).

…AND uber-thankful that my first VAIO laptop of 4 years, which sustained major injuries last year due to an accidental trip over an ethernet cord, suddenly decided to expand its minimized 2X3 safe mode screen to a normal full-sized one after sitting in my desk drawer for 8 months. I will accept this freak of nature with no questions asked because it means that for the last 2 weeks of the semester, I’ll at least have working internet, email, and the oh-so-cool program that is Wordpad. Yeah, you know you’re jealous about that last one.

The almost eerie coincidence is that my laptop went kaputt! due to the failures of its owner at the exact same time last year, the week right before April 16th. It’s déjà vu that I’ll be without a fully functioning computer again on that day.

The good thing about this is that my 1-year warranty isn’t up until April 19th. The bad is that Sony doesn’t cover water damage…

But hmm…that’s funny, the interesting thing is that I really don’t understand why my laptop suddenly won’t register charging from my AC adapter. Please fix it…?

*fingers crossed*