Laptop Disaster...

 Last week I took a container of a chocolate protein drink with me to the FamilySearch Center for my shift.  I put the drink in my purple small Yeti mug and drank it all during the morning.  When I left the FamilySearch Center I tossed the mug on top in my computer bag.  This was Thursday.

On Friday I got the computer out to upload my week's video to my YouTube channel (The Country Wife From Vermont, if you are interested).  I had had a glitch when recording so there was a longer video and a shorter video. I uploaded the shorter video first and just as I was finishing it there came some darkening of the monitor, first about a one-inch section then a two-inch section then larger.  At that point I noticed a little chocolate stain on the upper left of the computer.  Yikes!  Pretty soon the whole screen was black.

What to do, what to do?  I went to YouTube on my phone to see what to do if liquid spills on a MacBook.  I watched two videos and did the things these said.  Then I watched a much longer video by someone who said he had worked with MacBook computers for more than twenty years.  He had a list of ten things NOT to do and five things TO do.  I had done three of the DON'T do things so I stopped them immediately.

What I did do was unplug the computer and laid it bottom side up on a towel for 48 hours.  Well, for 24 hours then I checked.  No good. Then I checked it at 48 hours.  There was some screen visible but still a lot of black.  

Seventy-two hours after noticing the accident, this is what the picture is:

This is really not good news!  After the September Apple meeting Dear One had suggested that we might both get new laptops and telephones.  Now he is backing off and thinking maybe just getting me a MacBook.  It means a drive to Charleston...not our favorite thing AT ALL!!  We are both scaredy cats.  If we do this we will probably book a room there so we don't have to make the trip in one day.  We shall see.

This thing that is so irritating is that I drank all the beverage but there must have been a little scum around the edge of the mug which worked together when the mug was tipped on its side and even the closed top did not keep it in. R-r-r!

After this, I did find that on Friday I was able to upload the short video to my channel and on Saturday I used Dear One's laptop and uploaded the longer video.  His laptop is set up WAY differently from my laptop...but it was kind of him to let me use it.