Earlier today I ran about the world's most expensive hamburger, currently being sold in London.
Well, I've got that one beat. Yesterday, we had the most expensive glass of water, ever. It cost us $1,000.
Here is the story, in broadstrokes:
It begins with the Wife, who pours said cup of water into a glass (without a lid, mind you) to Child Number One, who is simultaneously checking the box scores and fighting with Child Number Two (who happens to be of the female persuasion).
During ensuing argument, one of the two Children (the "who" is still being hotly debated) knocks glass of water over and onto beautiful Black MacBook which immediately powers down (for the last time, as it turns out). Powers down and takes with it all of our photos, music, financial records and much, much more (hello back up device in the future)
Wife calls me during drive home from work to explain.
Almost drive off of Golden Gate Bridge.
Come home, don't say a word to anyone, immediately bring MacBook to Apple store for "Genius" analysis and proceed to wait for 1.5 hours before Mr. "Genius" tells me to come back in the am.
Decide not to come home and eat dinner alone.
Sleep in guest room as I am more mad at all three of them than I have ever been in my life.
Wife brings lapto in in the morning where diagnosis is: DESTROYED! A little bit of good news, however, is that the hard drive is recovered and moved to disc (another $100, which actually bring the cost of that glass of water up a bit).
So, tonight we all make amends (kind of), buy a shiny new (actually, not so new; this time around they get a refurbished one) laptop and HOPE AND PRAY that a lesson is learned.
Somehow I doubt it.
Guess we will see.
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We all get very upset if there is something we value gets destroyed. Let this be a lesson learned.
Never leave anything of great importance around a child. Things happen and I am sure they didn't do it on purpose. You are lucky this time sort of. Don't be angry with your family tell them why you were so upset and maybe they will understand your feeling and they too will have learned a lesson sort of.
Get yourself a La Cie hard drive backup.
That totally sucks, but at least you got the data from the HD.
My external drive failed on Wednesday night, which means I probably lost all of my personal files, not to mention 200GB of music and movies.
Still working out a way to recover the disk, but aside from paying Geek Squad $500-$1500, I'm not sure what to do.
Here's to hoping part of said lesson involves a certain someone actually opening and using the Time Capsule he purchased a few months ago, ensuring that all his data is thoroughly backed up at all times.
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