Almost There

Tomorrow I should know about my laptop one way or the other. I've been waiting so patiently, trying not to worry, and I've even been able to beat my old jack-borrowing* tendencies in regards to the thing, and until today I've just assumed it was going to work out all right in the end. Then I called there today.

They haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but it's slated for tomorrow. He told me it could just be a blown fuse ($25), and like he said before it could be that interior pin ($200 or so), but then he said ... unless it's a blown motherboard, in which case he'll refund me the money for the changed plug. It took me a full two minutes to realize that would mean it's hopeless and unfixable.

Ack.

In an e-mail Colleen mentioned that Ian could probably rig up a way to retrieve whatever is on the hard drive in the event of the worst coming to pass, but man oh man I really hope it doesn't come to that. I can live with losing that laptop, as inconvenient as that would be, but I REALLY want to get that stuff out of there one way or the other. Losing that stuff would be extremely discouraging, to say the least.

I guess I'll know tomorrow.

*assuming the worst right off the bat