Stay Away From my Laptop Woman!

I spent most of Saturday cleaning out a milkshake (yes, a milkshake…chocolate to be exact) out of my laptop. Kelly tripped and dumped it all over my laptop sitting innocently on the coffee table. She didn’t tell me till it was too late. I actually had to find out on my own. The keyboard had already become contaminated by the time I discovered it.

She tried to clean it with a damp cloth. It was probably dripping cuz when I found the laptop, it was damp around the area, and there was crap caked on the outside. I was not amused. As shown above, I stripped it right down to the motherboard and used cuetips, contact cleaner, compressed air and whatever else I could find to clean it out. Everything seems to work OK, and I even had a chance to change the thermal compound as the stuff that came stock turned rock hard. In a laptop, you’ll always want that stuff to be moist and functional. The air exhausting from the inside is definitely much hotter than before.

I finally found a place that could get the right keyboard. They want about $100 shipped for it. I was not pleased. The only person that has any right to have an accident with my laptop is ME and since I never have accidents with my laptop, it should NEVER HAPPEN!

I have no laptop for 2 weeks and Kelly will be sucking up 24/7 till I get my keyboard…provided that it actually works. I’m not actually 100% sure yet. I’m not looking forward to owning a $2000 doorstop.