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Yesterday, I was installing something on my laptop that required a restart. My laptop turned off, never to turn on again. No amount of hitting the start button would make it work. The fan just died. I got Matt on the case and he fiddled for a while before telling me that it was pretty dead, but he had another laptop at work that he could maybe pull parts from. If not, I'd need to buy a few replacement parts.
A few minutes later, I hear him on the phone with work people. It's after 8, but this isn't unusual. He's a network admin, so he's always working after hours and on weekends. He hangs up the phone and tells me he has to go in to work, but it shouldn't take long. Since he's going in, he'll take my laptop and see if the spare parts work out. I thought how nicely that worked out, but I didn't say it because he had to leave in the middle of the night when it was just about -40 out.
He was only gone for about 20 minutes. He came in and told me that the parts he had worked, and he got my laptop back up and running. I'm all excited because yay, my laptop isn't dead. I wander back into the computer room to do something on my desktop, then return to the living room a minute later to find a brand new, shiny, super fast laptop set up on my laptop table.
The phone call, the spare parts, it was all lies. He had my Christmas present waiting at his office so when my laptop died, he just figured he'd give it to me early.
It's so pretty.
Very fast, almost 300 gigs of space, and instead of a password when I log in I swipe my fingerprint. Seriously. It's so pretty. Did I mention fast? My day at work is going to crawl by today, knowing the beautiful thing is sitting at home waiting to be played with.
A few minutes later, I hear him on the phone with work people. It's after 8, but this isn't unusual. He's a network admin, so he's always working after hours and on weekends. He hangs up the phone and tells me he has to go in to work, but it shouldn't take long. Since he's going in, he'll take my laptop and see if the spare parts work out. I thought how nicely that worked out, but I didn't say it because he had to leave in the middle of the night when it was just about -40 out.
He was only gone for about 20 minutes. He came in and told me that the parts he had worked, and he got my laptop back up and running. I'm all excited because yay, my laptop isn't dead. I wander back into the computer room to do something on my desktop, then return to the living room a minute later to find a brand new, shiny, super fast laptop set up on my laptop table.
The phone call, the spare parts, it was all lies. He had my Christmas present waiting at his office so when my laptop died, he just figured he'd give it to me early.
It's so pretty.
Very fast, almost 300 gigs of space, and instead of a password when I log in I swipe my fingerprint. Seriously. It's so pretty. Did I mention fast? My day at work is going to crawl by today, knowing the beautiful thing is sitting at home waiting to be played with.