Running On Empty

The laptop I fixed this weekend is void of any rechargeable juice in its battery.  After several hours of charging it still had little-to-no juice.  I had my latest story opened up in a document and wanted to move the laptop from one room to another.  I made sure the new destination had a free outlet available and secured a nonobstructed path from where the laptop was now to where the laptop would be.  I quickly unplugged it and bolted through two rooms.  My hand directed the plug into it's new outlet with bullseye precision as a spark shot out alerting me a connection had been made.  I turned quickly to face the laptop in hopes of seeing the screen still illuminating with my story staring back.  A dead black screen.  Thankfully I saved the document before the race against the battery. 

Fast forward several hours later when the rest of the family was in bed.  It seems to be when I am the most creative and the most inspired.  After admiring a paragraph I had just written and before I got a chance to save it, the cable to the laptop ever so slightly jiggled in its slot causing the machine to die immediately.  It happened so fast that I initially thought the power had gone out due to the storm we happen to be having, but the living room light and Steely Dan in the background told me otherwise.  Furious, I set down the laptop and went to my study where I jumped on my PC and went straight to Amazon.com where I purchased a replacement battery for said laptop.  This would not happen again.