After freaking out, I immediately went into crisis mode. Pulled the charging outlet out of the wall, toweled off the watery mess, flipped my laptop over. And began a Google search on "I dropped water onto MacBookAir." Considering the (many) topics and Youtube videos on this incident, I'm not the only one. It's been 48 hours since the incident and for now, I'm working off the Ipad. I don't want to risk further damage (i.e., corrosion) until I know for sure all remnants of the spilled water is fully dried. Maybe a month, maybe 4 months....
I had updated my Linkedin profile to reflect my education (now that I'm a college grad, yay!) as well as updating my current job. On the same day as "the incident", I'd gotten a congratulatory message
from an ex-colleague from our Mexico branch. I'd known this person from my previous job working as tech support and his team was our counterparts in Mexico (visiting clients and trouble-shooting, resolving client inquiries). I thought it was very kind of him that he still remembered me.
A few thoughts...
1. The New York Times recently had an article on swindlers now taking the form of Buddhist monks.
"They are mostly men of Chinese descent, with shaved heads, beatific smiles and flowing robes of orange, but sometimes brown or gray. They follow a similar script: Offering wishes of peace and a shiny amulet, they solicit donations from passers-by, often reinforcing their pitch by showing a picture of a temple for which the money seems to be intended. Then they open a notebook filled with the names of previous donors and the amounts given."
Reading the article, I realized this had happened to me. I was approached a month or two ago, by a Buddhist monk in my neighborhood, Bensonhurst (to be specific, Bath Beach). Although I didn't donate any money, the monk had offered me a mala bracelet. I thought something was suspicious because during the monk's spiel where he showed me a book of supposed donors and amount of donations, the writing was uniform as if written by a single person. After relaying the events to my mom, she told me to throw away the bracelet right away. A genuine religious article can be purchased from a real temple.
2.) You have read about migrant kids and women fleeing violence and political turmoil in Central America (Honduras, Guatemala) and making their way to Texas, further inflaming politicians on the left and right on this issue? The political gridlock on this issue is similar to how Greece treated its migrants at the height of their economic troubles circa 2008 (topic covered in my senior thesis.) I might just write an op-ed on this.....
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