Recently I lost all my data on my external HD, music that I had collected over the years (some I'll never be able to replace, because I don't have that kind of access, old pictures, TV shows, Movies...you name it) . So when the following happened, I figured for me, it was just about par for the course.
Notes From The Line.....
Why yes; that is my iPod touch at the bottom of a full prep sink.
That's right boys and girls, dropped it into a full prep sink last night. I was juggling some pots around on the shelf where we've been parking my iPod and dock at night, as to have tunes in the kitchen. I reached for a stockpot, snagged the cord. Caught the dock as the iPod made it's way towards the water.
(plunk....)
It floated softly to the bottom, handed off the stock pot to chef, and just stared. I'm not sure I'll ever know why I just chose to stare at it for a couple of seconds shimmering at the bottom of the sink. My mind raced before I thrust my hand into the water and retrieved what was surely a waterlogged and useless 30gig iPod touch. It had landed face down, so I couldn't see if it was till operational until I plucked it out.
Upon immediate inspection, it seemed to be functioning - though for some reason (at the time) the external speaker wasn't operational ( I mean, why would it after leaping to it's death?). I shut the damn thing down, found our bag of jasmine rice, and stuffed it in a pint container. Everything I've read about drying out electronics that weren't made for water activities.
I let it sit in that rice, for twenty minutes tops (A. I wanted to see if it was truly working & B. There needed be something else besides the hum of the induction burners and dishwasher. or C. I'm just an impatient bastard and it hasn't gotten any better in my elder years.), then I held my breath as a flicked it back on. I tried it, with just the external speaker, it wasn't working (but would by the end of the night) plugged it back into the dock and we listen to music the rest of the night.
All I could think was what little music I had left because of the HD crash that was on my iPod was going to be lost. The thing is, what's on my iPod wasn't even a scratch on the surface my music collection. It was like someone was conspiring against me.
And, it's still working this morning. I also use it as my alarm clock on my night stand, that way with the app I use I can wake up to a full playlist if I want. And it looks a lot cooler than my old clock/radio/size of a brick monstrosity that now is on the other side of my room, on my memorabilia shelf.
I am now going to leave you with this, don't blame me if it gets stuck in your head.
