Just a note that my brand spanking new, gorgeous laptop that was donated by Jason is now dead. The water incident from this week hosed the hard drive to the point of complete data loss, fried the power supply and likely toasted the motherboard.

Estimated repair cost: 1000$.
Estimated data recover cost: 600$.
Estimated cost of clothing replacement due to profound weeping: 100$.

All in all, it means the laptop is effectively worthless to me, I think. Anyone want to buy it? It’s a great laptop. Just needs some TLC. I’ll get an official quote later next week on the repairs. Y’never know, it might just be the powersupply and the HDD.

Drop me a line if you’re interested in refurbishing this beast. Otherwise I’ll likely eBay it sometime in June. And then I’m computer-less. I have no idea how I’m going to work at this point, but something’ll work out. It always does.

I’m actually remarkably unstressed about all of this. I still don’t know what it all means, or how I’ll get any work done in the long term, but then I’ve been through worse in the last year and still landed on my feet. I’m open to ideas though. Always open to ideas ;-)