My vacation was going a little too well it would seem...
Weekend in Montpellier, stellar hike in the Mediterranean mountains, and day trip to Moissac...
I come home to the empty house after a rainy day in Moissac to....a flooded kitchen. I'm talking an inch of water over half the kitchen, and a leak directly over the kitchen table, where, gloriously, my new Macbook Pro sat in a puddle of water.
For those of you who haven't been following the story, a brief recap:
I was robbed in November and lost my Macbook Pro with all my photos, documents, and most importantly lesson plans on it.
December, January, and February were spent trying to get a computer to me from the states, which proved to be exponentially more difficult than anticipated, and ended with the computer being sent back to the US by French customs for no discernible reason, after multiple calls lasting hours a piece (read: approximately 1,5 hours of hold time plus 10 minutes of maddeningly unhelpful dialogue with French postal employees).
FINALLY in March when my parents came to visit me they were able to bring with them the computer in question with which I reconstructed all my lesson plans and what photos I could from friends. Needless to say a timely process.
Now, a surprise flash flood in my kitchen, the on the day I leave the computer on the kitchen table, and not in my room, when no one is home. That makes 2 computers in less than a year. I should get a frequent buyer card at Apple.
I clean up the mess, call Gisele to let her know about the leak, then have dinner with friends to try and boost my spirits. The next morning her partner Gilou comes by to check in on me and the leak, which, of course, by this point has stopped. We have a coffee and try to laugh about it, he tells me I should take a blow dryer to the computer as a last shot, then leaves. I set myself up with my hair dryer and the computer, and 2 mintues in all the power in the house goes out. I of course think it's the dryer but turns out there were general outages that day. What are the odds?
I decided to go out for the day for fear that the roof would cave in on me next.
Pretty unbelievable. That's all I have to say.
Linz
Weekend in Montpellier, stellar hike in the Mediterranean mountains, and day trip to Moissac...
I come home to the empty house after a rainy day in Moissac to....a flooded kitchen. I'm talking an inch of water over half the kitchen, and a leak directly over the kitchen table, where, gloriously, my new Macbook Pro sat in a puddle of water.
For those of you who haven't been following the story, a brief recap:
I was robbed in November and lost my Macbook Pro with all my photos, documents, and most importantly lesson plans on it.
December, January, and February were spent trying to get a computer to me from the states, which proved to be exponentially more difficult than anticipated, and ended with the computer being sent back to the US by French customs for no discernible reason, after multiple calls lasting hours a piece (read: approximately 1,5 hours of hold time plus 10 minutes of maddeningly unhelpful dialogue with French postal employees).
FINALLY in March when my parents came to visit me they were able to bring with them the computer in question with which I reconstructed all my lesson plans and what photos I could from friends. Needless to say a timely process.
Now, a surprise flash flood in my kitchen, the on the day I leave the computer on the kitchen table, and not in my room, when no one is home. That makes 2 computers in less than a year. I should get a frequent buyer card at Apple.
I clean up the mess, call Gisele to let her know about the leak, then have dinner with friends to try and boost my spirits. The next morning her partner Gilou comes by to check in on me and the leak, which, of course, by this point has stopped. We have a coffee and try to laugh about it, he tells me I should take a blow dryer to the computer as a last shot, then leaves. I set myself up with my hair dryer and the computer, and 2 mintues in all the power in the house goes out. I of course think it's the dryer but turns out there were general outages that day. What are the odds?
I decided to go out for the day for fear that the roof would cave in on me next.
Pretty unbelievable. That's all I have to say.
Linz
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