What to Do if You Spill Wine on Your Laptop (Updated)

1.  Turn it off

2.  Flip upside down

3.  Pull apart the keyboard and hard drive and dry off

4.  Let air dry over night

5.  Go to your happy place (mine is Belgium waffles with strawberries:  see above)

Hopefully tomorrow it will at least turn on, so I can get the thousands of photos, all my writings and that novel I wrote last fall onto a storage device.  If anyone says “should have” and “backup” in the same sentence I might just start crying again, waffles be damned.  Trust me I know.

UPDATE (next day): So this morning I hopped out of bed, and press the power on button on my laptop. The blue power light flickered on, then nothing (I tried this about 100 times). I collapsed back into bed and pulled a pillow over my head. I was going to have to replace my kick ass computer with a crappy one, I probably lost my documents and I would no longer be able to store gigs and gigs of photos when I traveled, and I envisioned running around Europe with a big clunky crappy cheap computer.

3 hours later…

HUSBAND: OK I’m going out to the computer repair place.
ME: (from beneath pillow) ugh.
HUSBAND: Woah. Did it do this before?
ME: What, flicker feebly then die?
HUSBAND: No, all the lights are on and… holy crap
(Microsoft theme song is heard)
ME: Shut up!
HUSBAND: I know!

So, yes the computer decided that it needed it little more sleep this morning (was it hungover?) before it would miraculously restart like nothing ever happened. The only side effect is that time started resetting itself randomly, but the wireless, webcam and all the keys work. I AM SO LUCKY. I seriously think it was all the thoughts of waffles. Maybe the belgium-waffle-gods smiled on me today. Yum.

Photo: Christine Gilbert (uploaded pre-spillage)