Laptop Surgery
I think I’ve finally learned my lesson. I wish I had before. I am not a laptop surgeon. I’m not even a laptop surgeons’ nurse. If I were, laptops everywhere would have to watch out for me coming at them with a screw driver. Because, apparently, I don’t know what I’m doing.
You see, my laptop had a Dell employee’s eyelash stuck in the display. And on every bright screen it taunted and mocked me like a fly mocks a cat through the safety of a window. And I would not let that stand. So I took a screwdriver to it. But not in the the I’m-gonna-smash-my-laptop-in-with-this-screwdriver kind of way, but in the I-think-I-know-what-I’m-doing,-but-I-don’t kind of way. And in doing so, I sure taught that eyelash a lesson, it doesn’t belong in my laptop. But at the same time my computer taught me a lesson too. I could not, for all of my surgical expertise, get the monitor to work again.
Good thing the people at Dell were smarter than this end user. Were it not for the warranty I had on it and the technician who seemed disinterested at the fact that it had been opened and “serviced” by someone other than a Dell employee, I would probably be out a laptop and back to programming remotes, for work, with a hammer and chisel.
Anyway, it’s back up and going now. And if you ever hear me say that I am going to operate on my laptop again, feel free to smack me upside the head (preferably without a screwdriver in hand).
