I had the day off work today. I attempted to sleep in but was forced to wake up at 7:30. Those pesky cats just don’t like me to sleep in! Based on the way that my day started out, I should have known that today was not going to be my day!!

I got out of bed, put a bagel (my favorite food, by the way) into the toaster, made a pot of coffee, and headed up to my ‘study.’

Here’s where everything went wrong…

I reached for the power cord to my iBook. As I pulled the cord across my desk, I tipped my mug over. There was coffee EVERYWHERE! It was one big sticky mess.

Of course, today was the day that I had to make the coffee too strong for my liking, and had to load it up with sugar and milk!

As tears began to build up in my eyes (ok, well maybe i’m being a little dramatic here), I applied towel to my iBook. There was coffee coming out from every end…of the computer, that is.

About 20 minutes later, I tried turning it on. No avail. I tried it again about 10 minutes later. SUCCESS!

Lesson learned: Never keep liquids near your computer.
Ha! Like we’ll ever do that, right?

Ok, real lesson learned: Always keep an eye on that mug.

Oh yeah…backup your data now, while you still can…
I did…I took me all morning, but at least I’ll have my data if this thing does die from an allergic reaction to coffee. :-/