Eva often makes fun of me because I love water. There are times when water is seemingly the only thing I can think of that can possibly quench my thirst. There is nothing better in all of the world than having free-refills on tap water or coming home to a nice liter of refrigerated water. Call it the country girl in me that still loves going to the well and drinking it straight from the ground unfiltered and naturlly cool. Or maybe it's because my parents are water drinkers. :)

Well water can ruin a computer. Eva had prepared herself a drink (it very well could have been me) yesterday and sat it next to the seen-more-of-its-share-of-work laptop and climbed into bed. During the day I had started reading, in bed, the lonely planet guide to Italy that Eva's mother had give us. When I finished my entry last night I readied the house for sleep. I turned off the lights, moved the chair under the desk and climbed into bed...where I situated the book at my feet as to not have it fall off the bed during the night. I'm just settling in when Eva says, "Honey, can you check the mosquito poison plugin to make sure nothing is sitting on top of it?" Sure. I climb back out of bed and take hte guide to Italy with me. Since it is dark I set the book on top of the glass which spills the water directly onto the keyboard.

Shit.

So anway, we dry it off the best we can and mourn the morning when we will most likely find out that we've just ruined the best free computer a laid off person can ever hope for.

So this morning I try it over and over again and it only starts up the very first time and then freezes like macs freeze. I dont' think I've ever had a PC do the mouse-freeze on me (think god!) and so I was a little alarmed. Then the computer started doing this non-power-up thing without starting the hard-drive whir. Then it would do the hard-drive whir and no screen. I was devestated. I kept calling Eva to update her on the patients health, but she finally said, "It's too hard on me...don't let me know anything more about it."

Did I mention that I also took it completely apart. No so apart that pieces of computer were scattered on the desktop, but apart enough that it woudln't work right unless you put it back together. No water in sight. I put it back together and then it goes into absolute silence. Green light but no sound. Nothing. I'm completely grieved. I start thinking about prayer and how I'm not about to attempt it, but how there should be an alternative for non-believers. The agnostic-powerful-thinking prayer-type thought in a particular direction. So I'm doing the postitive-thoughts in the direction of the computer and then I give up. I even managed to have the computer give me what computer tech people call the "blue screen of death."

I call eva and ask her out for dinner because niether one of us needed to stare at our gem of a worthless computer. We run all sorts of errands and then have Indian food, where the people genuinely like it when we show up and greet us in mixed verbage...him with his decent Flemish, me with my broken version, and Eva with her mother tongue. It's fun.

We return home and Eva is pleased with the state of the apartment and it's cleanliness. The dishes are done, the floor picked up, the trash collected, the table cleared...I could go on and on. (for obvious reasons, right? I want to make myself sound better)

I go directly to the computer...where I start it up and no joke, it works. First thing. The keyboard doesn't work anymore, but maybe that was my fault. I might not have reconnected the keyboard ribbon right or something "underneath the hood." But it works!

And since I was once so faith-based, I guess the agnostic-powerful-thinking prayer-type thought really worked! ;)