Because I'm a very special kind of genius, at approximately 10 am on Thursday morning I knocked a full cup of coffee with my hand and sloshed a good quarter of it onto my laptop keyboard.
I'll pause to allow you time to make the appropriate series of faces (i.e. oh no! --> you idiot... --> you poor, dumb idiot...).
All done?
Well I hope that didn't wear out your face muscles because I'm not done.
As I was flailing around trying to right the coffee mug and swearing inventively at myself... I knocked over a glass of water.
Right onto my laptop keyboard.
Yep.
Feel free to proceed directly to 'you idiot' and stay there this time.
On the upside, it washed the coffee out of my laptop.
On the downside... laptop full of water.
At this point my brain finally joined the party.
I switched my laptop (which was still miraculously on at this point) off, pulled the battery and stood it on its end to let the water run out.
Knowing there was nothing else I could do, I just had to sit there cursing my own name until the end of the day at which point I took it to the computer shop and - shamefaced and penitent - handed it over to see what can be done.
Seeing as Step 1 is 'take it apart, clean it and then leave it to dry for a few days before even thinking about putting it back together and seeing if it will reboot' I have some suspense and plenty of time to feel like an idiot ahead.
If I've wrecked it I'll only be truly mad at myself if I also lose all my data.
If it's still working by some miracle I will have shortened its lifespan and learned a fairly valuable life lesson the hard way.
But the most important thing to remember here is that I'm an idiot :-P
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