Open Heart Surgery

We all have bad days or tough times. But I feel like I have been having a lot lately – more than my fare share. I don’t quite know what is keeping me in an eternal bad mood but I really hope it stops soon.

Let me start at the top:
I was upset about something or another. (To be honest, I can’t even remember what anymore. I am sure it was something silly.) I was rushing out the door to meet up with Ingrid for some coffee and a chat… when I tripped a little… AND let my laptop gently brush against the metal table. Well, I felt that it was just a gently brush. However, it would appear that my computer felt otherwise. The screen went black and we couldn’t see anything. Humm…. Serious problem.

In moments like this, you think about all that we do now a days on computer. We were lucky that all the guts were still in order and the computer worked when hooked up to an external screen. But that didn’t really feel like a solution.

While I was off brooding during my coffee with Ingrid, Lenny started to look up my computer model on the internet. He found a site that would explain step by step how to replace the screen. That was the start to my little green Dell’s open heart surgery. I won’t bore you all with the details (I thought it was very exciting!) but Lenny managed to get the computer all taken apart one evening and find the part we needed to order.


About 3 weeks later when we had the parts and the time, we finally replaced a small little orange bundle that lives at the place I dropped the computer. I can’t begin to explain my surprise when it turned on and worked!!! To be fair, we were both quite pleasantly surprised! I knew that Lenny was smart (or I wouldn’t have married him), I knew he was really smart when he was doing Diabolical Sudoku quickly, but now I know him to be the miracle man that he is! Thanks, honey!