Lovely~ Free Advise! A New Concept: Taking The Computer For A Swim Isn't A Great Idea, Neither I

I've had some recent hair-raising episodes with my computers lately. I've cobbled together a Dell Latitude, with Window's 7, which is awesome. It's held together with packing tape. Literally. Obviously I'm not into how things look, but more how they work.

Imagine my horror when I picked up the laptop, where it had been shoved next to my nightstand by the bed....and it was covered in WATER!!!! Nope, I hadn't spilled any. I keep my bottled water tightly sealed and to the back of my table. Where did the water come from? All I can figure, is that when Frax was enjoying his water after his crunchy bone, some of the water was slung up onto the computer!

I frantically downloaded all the info that I could...meanwhile the screen was flipping and arcing...not good signs. Finally, got the stuff downloaded, the laptop slipped out of my hands, the info stick...with all the info? Snapped off. In the computer.

So, after I tried gamely to put that back together, I found out from the computer store that it wasn't something that is easily fixed. Of course it isn't. Has to be shipped to the computer shop that fixes the little sticks when they break off in your computer.

Word to the wise. Along with not using your laptop in the bathtub, do not break off the information stick in it. It's bad for the information stick. Real bad.

I now feel as though I probably have done all the terrible things that one could do to a laptop and still have it work. Yes, you will live through it. No, it's going to be expensive. Always expensive. Egad.

My hubby bought me a new computer a month ago. I can't seem to get it to acquire our ISP network. Not good. Plus it has windows 10. Which isn't good. It well, its pretty terrible. It's the least intuitive desktop I could ever imagine. With big stupid toggles that make me feel as though the windows people thought I had the ability of a little kid to hit the proper keys.

So when I was mentioning this to the computer people, they said "oh, yeah, most folks really hate the windows 10 desktop" I mentioned that it made figuring out what was happening very hard. They said no problem~ get this~ they can put a windows 'skin' over the existing 10 desktop! And you don't lose any of the new things that windows 10 can do! How cool is that!

I got off the phone and immediately looked it up online, which I'm sure they didn't expect a 'little lady' to do. But I did. And yes, you can do this fairly easily on youre own! For free! Happy Dance. It does require I figure out why exactly the new one can't pickup the isp, but that's another day, as Scarlett would say. I feel better about stuff now.

There still is water behind the screen, but it's started to dry. That's the thing about being poor. Things have a tendency to work themselves out. I'm sure the water wasn't good for the computer, however it already was keeling over, so no problems. The only issue was that I had some information I didn't want gone. Now I have it saved, I feel better.

Word to the wise: do not mix water and electronics. Don't drop your laptop. It will break it or break off things in it. Just don't do it. OK?