The $2600 glass of sav blanc
How's your New Year going? Mine's seen me spill a glass of Oyster Bay sav blanc across the keyboard of my notebook, which keen readers know has already been in the wars with a dead hard drive. I thought there would only be about a 1 in 10 chance that it would actually kill the laptop, what with a membrane under the keyboard and such, but in fact the vino seeped into the motherboard and optical drive, among other components.
The manufacturer's service centre estimated repairs at at least $1147, so my publisher has ordered a replacement laptop. It turns our company's insurance policy doesn't cover the mishaps of suburban drunks, so we'll have to pay the full cost of a new notebook ($2600). That's if the people upstairs approve it. Currently I'm using a lamo loaner.
Luckily, this came along to cheer me up.
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Comments
What??!! Time for a new insurance company if you ask me.
[I got lots of comments to this effect, and just double-checked with our Australian parent company. It seems that under our Aussie insurance policy, anything not bolted down in the office - such as a notebook taken offsite each night - is classified as high risk, and charged a super-high premium that's not worth paying. So unknown to me, I was computing naked, so to speak. There was also a lot of dubiousness that one glass could kill the notebook - including from the disbelieving taxi driver who took it upon himself to come into the Sony service center with me today as I picked up its body, but thems the breaks. CK]
Posted by: Pctek | January 14, 2008 5:50 PM