Yesterday, on my way across the country on a family trip, one of my daughters threw up all over my laptop.  Most of the keys work on the keyboard except for a few on the left hand side that got hit the most.  The display is borked and has a whole bunch of damage.  The harddrive is working and I’m actually using it to type on now.  Fortunately the destination city, Indianapolis, has an Apple store.  I’ve purchased a new monitor to use with the laptop and I’m hoping that the Apple store can replace the keyboard tomorrow.  This is not the way I wanted to spent my emergency fund.  This is exactly why you should always backup your data.  Mine is safe - but I wish that it was a little easier to access as certain keyboard keys do not function at present.

Most importantly the daughter is doing well and hasn’t thrown up again today.  I’ll take a sick computer over a sick kid any day.

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