Who left the gravity on?

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So remmeber when I said I might have puppy stories in the future. Where here is one I didn't expect to have. You see my parents have a two story house. They built the second story years ago to be a studio for rehersing plays and also to build sets in. Because of that there are these two french doors on the front that open off into nothing. There's a pully outside so that we can lift large set pieces in and out of the upstairs wihtout having to deal with the stairs themselves.

So anyway, we realized that we got too many flats (the fake walls for a play) so we opened up the doors to hand them down to someone so we could take them back to storage. No sooner did we open the doors than our dog York ran right for them. He stopped at the edge, and we started to call him, worried he might fall. He didn't, he jumped. First he jumped a couple of feet to the remander of the houses hold roof. Then he jumped all the way down to the ground, about eight feet or so. Freaked us out, but he's competely unharmed, and obviously thought it was a lot of fun. Why the dog jumped out of the second story windows? We have no idea. He wasn't trying to escape. He just hung out in the front yard until the guy who we were going to hand stuff down to shooed him back inside. He does like staring out of those doors at the traffic though, so maybe he's been planing that for the last three weeks ever since we brought him home.

Sadly, that wasn't my only run in with gravity today. Just a little bit ago in an amzing act of clumziness I managed to not only knock my laptop onto the floor, but to spill water on it too. I'm just praying that it comes through all right. Unfortunatly I don't have the right kind of screwdriver to open it up so it can dry out, and it's too late to go get one now. So guess what I'm doing first thing in the morning before work :( Luckily it was just plain water, so hopefully there's not any real damage. But man, I need it to be okay. There's no way I can afford a new one, and using my old one is driving me nuts (although thank god I kept my old computer, or I'd be in real trouble). This would of course happen the day before I'm supposed to start my next computer class. The hardest part is that it may be a while till I know for sure since I'll need to let it all dry out before I try plugging it into anything.

Comments

[missus-grace.livejournal.com]

I'm always up for puppy stories, and York sounds like he'll provide them in spades! I hope we get to see piccies of him soon!

Your parents' French Doors of Doom sound scary, although the concept of why they're there is pretty cool. But like York, I'm sure I'd have fallen out of them, just because I do things like that.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

I should wrack my brain. There may be other puppy stories hiding in there. He's certainly an energetic little guy. And now that he's comfortable with our family and knows we're not going to kick him out, he's a bit more mischievous.

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

GACK! haha. my sister's kitten did that while I was visiting. scared the crap out of all of us.

one time I spilled a glass of water on my old laptop, and then it didn't work for like 2 weeks. I gave up on it, and a month later, tried to boot it up just for the hell of it, and it worked. so uh. *shrugs* there's hope? I guess is the point of that. haha.

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Thanks for the hopeful thoughts. My old laptop might have worked if it was just a matter of letting it dry out (which can take a week or so) but sadly it had a full battery before the water, and a dead battery afterwards, so basically all that electricity zoomed through my computer. On the bright side this did get me to finally get renter's insurance and cover my laptop.

[cordykitten]

Your dog story (York) was fun but sure now while it happened.
Good luck with your laptop! *crosses fingers*

[icemink.livejournal.com]

Yeah, scared us to death when the dog jumped out the window, although as soon as we knew he was okay, we were laughing about it. The computer on the other hand didn't survive so well.