Well, I finally have my laptop working again :) Grandpa's ac adapter arrived today, and I was so nervous.. I didn't want to open the package, in case it was the wrong one, or it didn't work, because then I would be so, so, incredibly disappointed. So very hesitantly, I cut through the sellotape and took it out of the cardboard box, and low and behold, it was the right fucking thing. I was beyond amazed, surprised, overjoyed, etc.
This might seem like an overreaction, but this little laptop is very important to me.
My old Fujifilm camera broke. I've had it since 2002 - since I bought my first laptop, since I started IRCing. So it went back