My Miracle Compaq Computer!

A mug filled with H2O poured onto my Compaq laptop. Two days later and am I typing this miracle blog on it.

Seriously, I think I just got a miracle. Not the Jesus kind. Well maybe the Jesus kind, who am I to say, but I am assuming Jesus is too dam busy to care about my laptop.

So why was I drinking water near a computer. That is a fair question. The answer is that while working at a former job I ate three meals a day at my computer and never spilled one drop on it, so I developed the habit and stopped worrying about it long ago. And while there are NO liquids within ten feet of my computer right now, the truth is it was not my carelessness that resulted in water hitting my computer, but a freak accident..maybe not so freak.

My brother-in-law kindly installed a retractable clothesline in my apartment for me two weeks ago. I would recommend one for any of your apartment dwellers out there. My building is old and the air quite dry and the clothes dry surprisingly fast and and much quicker than in the house I was previously living in. They are off the floor and therefore do not take up any space on a clotheshorse. They aren’t sexy though, so not for everyone though you can remove it from the wall when not in use, leaving only a couple of visible screws in your wall.

The clothesline has been great for these past two weeks of laundry but after a number of hours covered in laundry two days ago, the end of the line, with the hook, came flying out of the wall, leaving a charming hole in the wall begging for Pollyfilla. All my sheets etc. landed on my not clean floor. (I am still unpacking so cleaning is restricted to necessities such as everything that touches food.) The hook propelled itself across the room while the falling clothesline knocked a mug of water onto my computer, which was turned on and then promptly was not. Computer blackout.

I tried to dry up the water, which unfortunately I did not see until after I had picked up my laundry off the floor. I turned my computer on its side and water poured out. I left it on its side and water kept coming out in little puddles on the floor.

I panic texted my brother Thomas because I did not know what to do next. He came over soon after, God Bless him, removed the battery and removed a few compartment covers and laid it on its screen with the keyboard facing the A/C unit, so upside down , if you will. I left it in that position for a day and a half. My brother then returned today and put it back together.

He turned my laptop on and it booted up. I have never felt so happy to see the Windows logo. Freaking miracle man! I was sure the motherboard had short-circuited and the computer was dead. Why? Besides the obvious you mean? Well, because two days earlier when my brother came over, he turned on the computer at some point and it made the most awful sound like a steak sizzling on a barbeque. It was not the sound you ever want to hear your computer make, unless you are playing some scary online game.

So, thank you to Jesus and the Universe and to my brother Thomas and to whatever and whoever saved my laptop. Thank you.

Elina Grace Edwin