Wow, aren’t all of you out there on the ‘inta-web’ lucky duckies today? TWO posts?! Well, what follows are TWO completely boring tales about my day…
The Bloated Battery
So shortly after swiggin my DayQuil, I left work to head over to the Apple store in Manhattan Beach Village. Why? Well, because it seemed my MacBookPro’s battery has what I can only refer to as some sort of cancer. Apparently, this problem has plagued many MacBookPro owners. It started a few weeks ago when my computer would just suddenly shut of for no reason around 40% charged. That happened like 2 or 3 times and was quite frustrating as I was trying to drain the battery so I could do a fresh battery cycle. Anyway, after learning that 40% was the new ‘zero,’ I stopped trying to drain my battery and Googled the problem. Other people had mentioned similar problems on posts and it was a mixxed bag. Some got their batteries replaced for free, others had to pay. I was kind of like, “Well, at least it still works. I’ll deal with this problem later.” Well, I guess my laptop had different ideas.
On Monday night, I was in bed reading the latest issue of HOW when my Mac suddenly snapped out of sleep mode by itself. Not only that, but it somehow had launched Safari as well. I thought to myself, “HOLY CRAP! My laptop is possessed!?” Well, that’s not likely so then I thought, “Oh man, I actually got a virus?! That’s not supposed to happen.” Continuing to psycho-babble, my following idea was, “Awe man, maybe I have a mouse or rat in the room and it crawled across my mouse really quickly or something…” Well, I quickly ruled out all three as unlikely scenarios and just figured maybe I had launched Safari before my Mac went into sleep and had forgotten about it.
Later, when I tried using my laptop, I discovered I couldn’t do anything. It was somehow locked. After much frustration, i realized the computer was registering the mouse button as being held down, the thing was I wasn’t pressing the mouse button or the touchpad button. I also noticed that my laptop was no longer flat on my table. Flipping the computer over, to my horror, my battery had somehow developed a 2mm dent protruding OUTWARDS. Well, how the hell does that happen. I then pull the battery out and plug in my power cord and reboot my laptop. Bamn, it works fine again. Because the battery pack rests beneath the touch pad, the bloated battery pack had gathered enough pressure to press the mouse button upwards. Well, I guess that solved the possessed computer mystery, but why the heck was my battery pack expanding?
Well, I still don’t know but apparently it’s a known defect among MacBookPro’s released between April 2006 and May 2007. Checking Google again, I found a number of users who had their batteries replaced for free while others cursed and threatened their local Apple employees when shown the hefty $179 price tag. Lucky for me, the dude at the Apple store gave it to me for free saying it was covered under warranty. So bottom line, only because I had a good experience this time around, I give Apple 2 thumbs up on customer support. If they had charged me the $179 though, I’d be giving them two different fingers.
Friggin Finger Burning Goodness…
So I don’t know Korean, but I swear Kyo Chon must mean burning. It’s been a while since Freshia Market opened and brought with it the goodness known as Kyo Chon chicken, but tonight was my first time sampling the stuff. S, of course, being the complete glutton that I am and disregarding my post earlier about eating healthy, I decided to order for myself a whole chicken and get half hot, half original. Well, about 20 minutes later, a very hungry Jacob rushed his lasted fried chicken adventure home.
First of all, its good chicken. it’s not great beyond belief (I swear I’ve had similar stuff in Chinese restaurants) but it’s still pretty damn good. The original is at least. The ‘hot’ flavor, well, maybe it’s because I’ve gotten weak over the years but that stuff just plain burns. Next time I go back, if I go back, I’ll just get the original flavor. Why am I a ‘maybe’ on going back? Well, that tiny box of chicken you see in my hand in the picture above cost me $15.99 before tax. It’s not cheap chicken. Next time, i think I’ll just head over to Peter’s Place or Sue’s Kitchen.
