Today my laptop decided to take the day off.\u00a0 I didn’t know that’s what it had in mind.\u00a0 I was working along thinking I’d do a few more things and then take a short break and up pops a low battery warning.\u00a0 Now, I’ve got the ‘ol laptop plugged into the UPS which is plugged into the house circuit so no worries.\u00a0 I keep on working.<\/p>\n
I enter a stack of books into the database and between books this low battery warning keeps popping up.\u00a0 So, I stop and check all the connections and everything is plugged in solid.\u00a0 Sometimes you see my feet and those dangling cords sort of have their own battle.\u00a0 But all is as it should be.\u00a0 Keep on working.<\/p>\n
Up pops a notice that the laptop is going into some sort of mode to help me conserve power.\u00a0 What the?\u00a0 I check the cords again.\u00a0 Everything is fine.\u00a0 This time I’m on my hands and knees under the desk checking the entire length of each cord — from laptop to the power brick and the\u00a0 brick to the UPS.\u00a0 Yup all the cords in and plugged in solid not wobbly.\u00a0 I even checked to make sure the UPS was plugged in but knew it was because the printer and the lamp was working fine.<\/p>\n
Okay, weird but not critical but I’m thinking I’ll start a backup just in case.\u00a0 Close all the programs and start the backup.\u00a0 Grab a book to read while it’s running and I get a Skype just as I get a message from the laptop telling me it’s shutting down soon.\u00a0 Send word I’m going to be offline and hit send.\u00a0 Black screen and a beep.<\/p>\n
Try to turn it back on.\u00a0 Dead. Nothing.\u00a0 Nada. Okay.\u00a0 What’s there to do but make tea and grab a book and pretend it’s my break.\u00a0 I tried several times throughout the day to push the power button hoping it would some up.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Finally, Hyperion gets home from work and I tell him about the problem and ask if we should buy a new brick — last time this happened it was a bad power brick.\u00a0 He says maybe I missed something and he follows the cords all fine and dandy and then pulls out the cords to pull them out in the light to see that they look fine and not broken or scuffed, plugs them back in and powers up.<\/p>\n
Everything is fine.\u00a0 My laptop sits here with this smug look of satisfaction.\u00a0 I think it just wanted a day off.\u00a0 I don’t know why it couldn’t just send me a memo requesting the day off.\u00a0 I think it might be developing sentience and if not that it’s at least developing an attitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today my laptop decided to take the day off.\u00a0 I didn’t know that’s what it had in mind.\u00a0 I was working along thinking I’d do a few more things and then take a short break and up pops a low battery warning.\u00a0 Now, I’ve got the ‘ol laptop plugged into the UPS which is plugged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-issue","category-csa","category-hearth-and-home"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n