Tim>
so... I am working from home today.
Pete>
yes
Tim>
and Martine has a cat. let's call him Zeke because, well, that's his name and my nickname for him today is not as pleasant.
Pete>
hahahahahahaha
Tim>
Zeke likes to be the center of attention.
Pete>
of course
Tim>
Zeke likes to meow and walk on my keyboard when I am working, especially when talking business on the phone.
Today, I was running out of patience so I kept pushing Zeke out of the way, more roughly than usual.
then setting him down on the floor...
then pushing him away as he would not shut up while I was talking.
Zeke is a very vocal cat. He loves to meet people at the door and meow and them until they pet him.
Zeke, also likes to drink water. a lot of water.
Pete>
oh dear
btw: http://www.bitboost.com/pawsense/
Tim>
Apparantly, Zeke was very thirsty.
I drink water too, and so I had to get up and go to the bathroom after I hung up the phone.
when I came back, there was a very nice present for me...
Pete>
*snicker*
cats always get their revenge
Tim>
he threw up all the water he just drank, his breakfast, and them more water, right smack in the middle of my MBP keyboard.
my laptop was completely covered in puke
Pete>
oh *perfect*
Tim>
I immediately got paper towels and began to soak up the puke, just leaving the chunks behind.
when I noticed that the screen had completely frozen and there was no response to keyboard or mouse.
I turned the laptop up side down and got more of the liquid mess out of the crevices.
Pete>
dear lord man
Tim>
powered it off and then continued cleaning the keys, cover, and so on.
he puked up so much, it had run over both edges, getting under the laptop.
finally, I got it cleaned up enough and pushed the power button...
nada. no magic chime, no wizzes or whirls.
sh*t
$3k cat puke brick
Pete>
lovely
Tim>
took out my compressed air bottle and began trying to get the small chunks of half digested cat food out from under each and every key.
you never realize just how many keys there are until you have to clean each one of them individually.
Pete>
I'd have disassembled the case by this point
Tim>
...and I have a meeting in 2 minutes...
Pete>
sweet. Remember, no matter how bad your day...
Tim>
so now, everything "appears" dry. the keys are no longer juicy and responding fine.
I press the power button again.
yea! the magic chime!
but then zoomp.
power down.
MF
appears that some of the regurgitated "Fancy Feast" had seeped past the membrane and onto the motherboard.
again, more compressed air, more cleaning. same result.
Pete>
this story is epic
Tim>
argh...
but wait!!! it didn't power down this time.
just no video
I see the lights on under the key on and the backlit apple logo
Hmm... maybe I can hook up my external monitor, maybe all is NOT lost?
I dash into the garage, pull out the first VGA cable I find, run back into my office (I usually work at the dining table), and try to hook it up to my big monitor.
wrong fucking ends.
now the meeting has started, I can't see the PPT.
dash back into the garage, find a freaking VGA cable, push the monitor on its side, plug that up, plug that into the VGA dongle, push the power button...
wait for what feels like an eternity... magic chime! display comes out of power save and ... swirly clock!!! yeah!
Pete>
w00t!
Tim>
boots up, keyboard works.
trackpad mouse...not so much.
Pete>
of course
Tim>
every try to seriously use OSX w/o a mouse?
I remembered my shortcuts. apple-space for spotlight
searched for Displays, go to the System Preferences.
I can navigate, but how do I activate a button?
go back to Keyboard Preferences,
enable Full Keyboard Access, now I can press Space and activate items.
yeah!
Pete>
yeah the disabled access stuff can help
Tim>
So, I'm in the meeting, nobody has anything to talk about, I hang up the phone to get back to my cleaning.
shut down the laptop and proceed to attempt to clean the trackpad as I had cleaned the keys.
did a pretty good job because when I rebooted, the trackpad worked, but not the buttons on the bottom.
and as a bonus, the built-in display worked too!
so I've been working today without the ability to click-drag while Zeke still sleeps in the middle of the table.
Pete>
hahahahahahahahahha
Tim>
that's it, that's how my day's been.
Pete>
sorry, rofling here
Tim>
crazy cat.
now I have to decide if I want to attempt to get the MBP trackpad repaired.
and can just imagine the face of the "Genius"...
GeniusBoy: "So, what happened?"
Me: "My fiance's cat puked on my keyboard."
GeniusBoy: "Are you still engaged?"
Pete>
you won't be the first
*snort*
Tim>
I think this deserves a blog post.
