Last night while waiting in a state of high anticipation in a college campus coffee shop for an important cell phone call and figuring it was a good opportunity to catchup on commenting around here, I accidentally spilled about 12 oz. of hot coffee upon my laptop's keyboard.  I wonder what the look on my face was as I watched green hard drive lights turn to amber and green power lights turn to red?  Of course, I immediately turned the laptop over to drain the keyboard, but it was too late: dying, red flicker, dying, red flicker, no flicker, dead.

When I got home, I took a hairdryer to it for half an hour.  That managed to get the power-on lights to flicker green, but no boot ensued at all.

Yet this is Spring, right?  A time for rebirth, renewal, and resurrection, right?

Well, damn it, I'm typing this post on that very same laptop right now.  It took all night to further dry up on its own and I further disassembled it and blow-dried the interior components this morning.  I'll tell ya: I've been fuckin' lucky lately. (No, not fucking in a lucky fashion, just 'fuckin' lucky'.)

Oh yeah, spilled some of that hot coffee on my own lap, too. 
*looks down, hoping for a similar miracle of renewal* 
fuckin' lucky!