Words of Wisdom for the day.....

"Don't spill juice on your laptop"

And yes, that's exactly what happened.

This morning, I had an early conference call, joined it and then the cat decided he wanted some love.

OK, I can multi task while I am listening.

I pick him up, put him on my lap, and his tail swoops out and knocks the glass of juice BEHIND me and it splashes on to the keyboard.

yes, from the table BEHIND me.

Not seconds later, the laptop fizzles and shuts down.

I don't panic or get mad, I call in my ticket. I told them that one of my kids knocked the juice. ( That's not a lie, my cats are my kids!). Then I get the hairdryer and put it on the cool setting and start drying out the interior of the laptop.

So I am awaiting for a callback from the tech, and meanwhile I am setting up backups for my work for the day possibly two. I had made three calls, when the tech called me back. He went in search of a motherboard for me, and would call me back.

I get in touch with my back up for Order Assignment detail. She's mad at me, and I had NO idea why. Then she told me that our boss decided ( without speaking to me at all) that she was going to pick up 100% of my work for the day.

Unacceptable. I have way to much work and there is no one person that can accommodate their own workload plus all of mine. So I have been making all these arrangements and in one fell swoop they are undone. So while she and I are working through the details of the tasks she needs to today( and happier about it because it is a one shot deal), I call our boss. I tell him what I've put in place and that solved the problem.

So now I have done everything I can do at this point, so being industrious, I decide to do my 30 minute 30 walking DVD. I reflect at this point, that as soon as I start, this guy is going to call me back. And three minutes in, that's precisely what happened.

So now it's noon. I need to meet him by 12:30. The Laptop is STILL not booting up and I tell a colleague as I am packing up to go into the office, the damn thing is going to boot up perfectly once it gets into the tech's hands.

And it does. I curse the thing silently. He takes it apart, cleans it up, puts it back together and send me on my way. Without a new motherboard. And since we really cleaned it up, the keyboard hasn't worked this good in years. the Space bar broke, so I gorilla glue'd back together and re-attached it and it's unbelievably sensitive.

I was back on line and working by 2PM. A minor miracle in this company. usually this is 1-2 day gig. So I am pretty impressed that we got things moving and I met the two major deadlines that I needed to today.

So my words of wisdom to impart: Don't spill juice near your computer.