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Been a while
You guys are probably pretty surprised to see an alert from me.  Surprise!
So a couple of weeks ago my wife Charleen sent me a text message at work to tell me that she'd done something bad, but wouldn't say what. It took a little while, but I finally managed to dig it out of her. She'd accidentally spilled water on our laptop - a LOT of water. It went completely through and soaked the sofa beneath. She told me later that she actually had to tip it on one side to pour all the water out. I told her not to worry about it; leave it off, and I'd take it apart later to dry it out. Which I did, and already it was mostly dry. I wasn't too worried. I let it dry for 24 hours, then put everything back together. But when I turned it on, it beeped a bunch of times (about 10 beeps, a pause, then about 10 more beeps - I never counted the same number twice; Phoenix BIOS for those of you who are wondering). And then started normally. But the beeps worried me, and after a bit of digging (okay: a LOT of digging - those beeps don't match any post codes I know of) I discovered that a few sectors on the hard drive had gone bad. Coincidence? ...Probably. My wife knows where the hard drive is, and says the water was only on the opposite end. Those things are sealed up pretty tight anyway. And after 5 years, it's not too surprising that the hard drive might be wearing out. But either way, I now have a problem on my hands. Only 9 sectors of the disk are bad (4.5KB), but more could go bad at any time, and you only have to lose a few critical operating system files for Windows to stop booting. It could die tomorrow, or it could last me another year - there's no way to know. Time to start looking at new laptops, though...
Also, just for a change of pace, I'm actually in New Jersey right now. Why New Jersey? Stay tuned to find out!
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