splash...

[jay]

(groan)

Not a good start to the week... I decided to duck out quickly at lunch to a McDonald's nearby (that accepted plastic). Fine... except that upon attempting to set the food back down at my desk, I knocked the diet Coke over onto my (open) laptop. Having been through this already last summer in a tent in the Arctic (coffee, then), I hurriedly flipped it over, shook it and wiped the moisture off while holding it upside down. Then let it dry inverted for a couple of hours. It is now working again, except for the Bluetooth card. Whew.

Otherwise... we have two weeks to throw together a $50M proposal for a secondary-payload spacecraft that would piggyback on the LRO lunar orbiter launch, in 2+ years. Practically next month, as space missions go. After a two-hour telecon this afternoon, I'm responsible for mission operations trades and writing that area. Better than spilling diet Coke, certainly... will need to specify Coke/coffee-proof operations consoles...

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

They make plastic shields for keyboards that fit down over the keys and keep things out from between them. Might want to investigate them.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

If they make them for Powerbooks, that would be a good idea.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

they do

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I just ordered two (one 15" and one 12").

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

you're welcome. Work gives me plenty of opportunity to Google :-)

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Hugs re: cola and too-soon deadlines, yay re: project!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

thanks. :)

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

At least it wasn't a regular Coke - the sugar would have made it worse (trust me on that one - BTDT). Glad it survived, other than the Bluetooth (is that a separate card or built in?).

Is that a short deadline for getting the proposal written, too?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

The coffee spill was like that... sticky, had to clean everything with alcohol. The Bluetooth is in an internal PC card... I'm hoping that it will dry out and reset itself later.

And yes, that's a very short timeline...

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I had to pry open a desktop that someone had poured a coke near. It had leaked in through the vents and left a sticky mess on the motherboard. You think people who worked in a hospital would have a clue about keeping areas clean.

[tenacious-snail.livejournal.com]

I am glad that the "good news at work" is continuing.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

At this rate, we'll be putting together three different spacecraft proposals this year... two lunar, one Mars Scout.

[tshuma]

That *is* good news! Yay!

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

Good thing it wasn't regular Coke. Sugar syrup does sticky things to keyboards.