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All right. The story:
I live and work on a wooden charter boat.
When it rains, the deck above my stateroom leaks. I have mostly solved this problem with increasing success over the years by adding a steel guttering system below the deck planks. Before that, I used chunks of old fire hose.
The fire hose worked well, but it was mainly a reservoir system; the rain water would accumulate in the fire hose, but at least it did not drip on my desk or my bunk. Unfortunately, there was no way to drain the "gutter" without making a mess.
So I had a fancy SONY VAIO laptop because I had destroyed the monitor on the handed-down Toshiba I had from my father. Like a fool, I leave the laptop open.
On a charter the day after a big rain storm, we were waked by another vessel. The boat I work on is about as stable as a cigar with a lighter mounted on it. When the boat rolled, all the water that had collected in my "gutters" splashed onto my desk and into my computer.
Like a scene in a movie, when I checked on my stateroom, I picked up the unit and tipper it over, and water came cascading out of it.
Of course, since this was rain water that had seeped through 30 year old wood covered in marine sealant and supported in spots by a steel frame, there were all kinds of nice salts and minerals in it.
The unit needed a new motherboard, and the place I took it to be serviced wanted more than the cost of new computer to repair it, so I held out a bit and then bought an HP pavilion at Mediocre Purchase.
I would have bought the extended warranty if they provided in writing that I was covered for water damage, but they were unwilling to take the risk.
That is how I drowned a SONY Vaio.
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