So, Sunday I was sitting in my chair at home, White Dog in my lap and one of the dogs next to me. I notice that the battery power on the laptop is at 97% so I unplug the cord and plug it back in. (Ideally, the cord has a little light that glows tan when it’s charging and green when it is fully charged – my power cord does not reliably light up but it would still charge). And then I go back to whatever I was doing – Pogo.com probably.<\/p>\n
After awhile I notice that something smells, kind of a weird plasticky smell, hard to define. And again I note that White Dog only has a 47% charge. I remove the plug from the side of the laptop and realize that the plastic on the cord has pretty much entirely disintegrated, exposing the wire and probably going to cause a huge electrical fire in about 4 seconds. Grrreeeeat. \u00a0(And yes, that’s how I think…I even spent some time that night convinced that the cord would spontaneously catch fire, even though it wasn’t plugged in).<\/p>\n
Oh, and did I mention that a Huge Winter Storm was headed our way? Seriously, we got quite a bit of snow (for here) that really made it hard to get around (for here) and even had Best Buy closed until yesterday (Wednesday).<\/p>\n
You heard it here…I went two nights without using the Internet. Read 2 books, watched TV, but it was actually OK. Finally got to Best Buy for a new cord on my lunch hour – considered driving home to plug the laptop in so it would be fully charged by the time I got home but I was a grownup and waited.<\/p>\n
Anyway, that’s where I’ve been \ud83d\ude42 The snow is melting, the roads are much better, and I’m back online. Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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