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Laptops and Water do not Mix!

September 19th, 2009 by Janene

Thursday night I was going to do something quick on the computer and I put a glass of water right next to my laptop.

I thought to myself “this is really not a good idea since Pumpkin and Coco like to walk all over the computer desk BUT I should be fine. I am only going to be a few minutes.”

Well, Coco decided to join me half way through what I was doing and tipped the glass of water over. Soon my laptop and the computer desk were dripping in water. I quickly picked up my computer and start shaking it. It should be fine, right?  After it was dried off, I tried a couple of the keys and it wasn’t working but luckily the mouse pad was working so I closed the window I had open, turned off the computer and called Joey. He told me to put the computer upside down on a towel and he’ll look at it when he gets home.

He got home a couple of hours later and started surgery on my laptop. He took a couple of the keys off as you can see here:

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And more keys:

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And after several minutes of working on the keyboard he tells me that it cannot be repaired so we decide to put the keys back. What are we going to do with a pile of keys anyway? As we started putting the keys back we weren’t exactly sure where they all went – do you have the top right hand side of your keyboard memorized? – luckily I had taken a picture pretty early on in the surgery process and I zoomed in and found where they all went. Whew.

Here is a picture of Coco walking right over what Joey was doing:

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I should really train the cats to not walk all over the computer desk!

After Joey told me the keyboard on the laptop was broken beyond repair, I started to think about all the things I do with my laptop and how I would do them on a different computer. I wouldn’t be able to check facebook at work so that would be a problem. How would I stay current on what is going on with all my friends? And then there are websites only my computer knows the password to so that would be a problem. I quickly realized how dependent I am on my computer. Sad.

I got home late Friday night and Joey was kind enough to hook up a monitor and keyboard to my laptop so I have a working computer. Yay!

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It seems to be working nicely except when a key decides to get stuck. You can’t do very much when your keyboard decides to press the same key over and over and over and…

It looks like we will be putting a new computer in the budget and I will never have liquids near my computer. Speaking of which, I am thristy!

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New Favorite Spot

April 30th, 2009 by Janene

The cats have found their new favorite spot in the windowsill – when the window is open of course.

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Something New to Climb On

December 6th, 2008 by Janene

This afternoon I tackled putting up our Christmas tree and the cats were very interested in the tree. As I was arranging the branches (I now know why people buy a real tree), Coco started climbing up the tree! Maybe it’s a good thing we don’t have a real tree or she’d have sap all over her.

Here is Pumpkin checking out the tree from on top of the TV:

Can you find Coco?

The un-decorated tree:

I’ll have to post more pictures when the tree is decorated. But first I have some shopping to do!

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Coconut Climbing on the Laundry Rack

December 4th, 2008 by Janene

The other night we found Coco climbing on the laundry rack and got some pretty funny video. Check it out.


Coconut climbing on the laundry rack, part 1 from Joey Day on Vimeo.


Coconut climbing on the laundry rack, part 2 from Joey Day on Vimeo.


Coconut climbing on the laundry rack, part 3 from Joey Day on Vimeo.

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Just Hanging Out

November 19th, 2008 by Janene

Here are a few pictures of the cats in the new house.

Hanging out on top of the kitchen cabinets. Of course Pumpkin went up there first and Coco followed:

Where they like to play, fight or just hang out:

Helping Joey use the ladder:

Coco on top of my laundry dry rack. My thoughts: “Seriously?”:

I really wish I got this on video. It was hilarious to watch her climp up it. This explains why there is cat hair all over my dry clothes.

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Poor Coco

September 18th, 2008 by Janene

Coco’s front paws were declawed today. :(

This is how she was sitting when I went to visit her:

We get to bring her home on Saturday and I am not quite sure if Pumpkin misses her yet or realizes that she’s coming back. This should be interesting.

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