Mental note: taking the laptop on short business trips may be more hassle than it is worth.
A couple of weeks ago I was out in Kansas for an auction -- a quick out and back where I flew out Wednesday morning and had a scheduled Thursday night return. Thinking I might have a boring night out there with nothing to do, I took my iBook. As it turned out, I really should have left it at home.
The hotel ended up being overbooked (I looking right at you, Holiday Inn Express) so I shared a room with a coworker. Honestly, we were in the hotel room for all of about 7 hours because the family selling the property wanted to have dinner with all of us in Dodge City, and that went on for a while. So at this point, the iBook has been nothing more than some extra weight in a bag, which isn't a big deal. That changed.
After the auction, we had a return flight out of Wichita into Chicago for a "connection." They made me dig the iBook out of my bag (just a hassle), which they didn't do in Fort Wayne. Our connection out of O'Hare was cancelled, and at the hotel Thursday night (when I should have been at home in my own bed) I knocked the iBook off of the hotel bed onto the floor and the lid latch will no longer shut. Oh yeah, and I'm getting the click-of-death from the HD.
Be it serendipity or whatever, I already have purchased a new hard drive for the thing but that lack of a functioning lid is too much for me. I never shut the iBook off, instead opting to just let it hibernate with the lid closed. Now I have to shut it down completely, which you'd understand as frustrating if you dealt with change as poorly as I do.
So now I'm in the market for a nice rubber band and 6 hours to put towards replacing the HD. I'll take donations for either.
