10:27: I wake up, realizing that the 10AM alarm I set on my Sleep Cycle app is too soothing to really wake me up, and that I had been finding it comfortable to sleep with its music right beside me for over half an hour now. I grab my phone, turn off the Airplane mode and turn on Data. An email comes in, sent at 10:14: "I'm at Starbucks. Where are you??" OH CRAP, I think - I was supposed to meet this guy at 10AM today to sell him my broken Lenovo! I immediatelly call him:
- Hey, I'm so sorry, I just got your email! Are you still around?
- Yes, I'm at Starbucks.
- OK, I can be there in... over 5 minutes. Is that OK?
- Yeah, sure..
I get up, grab my KWGP essentials (keys wallet glasses phone) minus the G, put the Lenovo in my backpack, remove my morning eye goo, and immediately head down to Starbucks.
I meet up with the guy, I show the computer to him. It is very dusty, very worn, and it has no battery. "Since when had you had it?" "Since 2008, but it stopped working over a year ago". The guy looks at it over several times, and asks me to plug it in, to see the Fan Error I was talking about. "Sure", I say, so I plug it in. He turns it on, and right on, a loud "BEEP BEEP" comes out of the computer, and it turns off. He asks "where is the error on the screen?" "Oh well, it's here on the upper left corner, it's just dim. Try it again". Turn on again, and I wait for it. No beep. Huh, still no beep. Huh? RESUMING WINDOWS??? Bar rising, complete!?! WINDOWS XP LOGO?!?!??! It's WORKING?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!
- You know, I think I'm gonna have to pass. I sell these overseas, and this one is in very bad condition.
- Huh? Oh, ok. Well, sorry for making you wait so long. Bye!
And an hour later here in Starbucks, I'm still using it! And it's WORKING!!!!!!!!!! PERFECTLY!! OK, it turned off once, but it turned back on again!! I'm installing updates on it just because... I don't know why, but I'm doing it. And while that's happening, I decided to write down this morning's mini-adventure of mine. I already scavenged through my files and data, removed all private data (passwords and stuff), and I'm about to leave. Got a fairly big day ahead. I gotta work on my SPLODD and MLSP projects, I'm going to a Dragon Boat Festival with Sarah Chen (Couchsurfer from Taiwan I went to Niagara Falls with) and maybe with Min, and... I'm gonna take a shower too. And my Lenovo came back to Life. Big day.
Oh, and Ashley Valo is getting married today. I'm not gonna be there, but that makes it a big day for her too.
Big day.
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