So if you missed the ongoing Selena Saga…
Monday night: I was watching Dancing with the Stars, laptop in my lap, when I started noticing a melty plastic smell. This is not good and obviously concerning when your lap is full of plastic with electric do-dads. I sniffed the lap top. I sniffed the nearby lamps. I sniffed all over my living room and couldn’t be sure where the smell was coming from. So I shut down my computer just to be safe and continued writing via my trusty iPhone.
Tuesday morning: I retrieved the laptop and cord and immediately noticed the melty plastic smell again. Ewww. Have you ever smelled melted plastic. Seriously, eww. But this time, I noticed it was the power cord. I went in for a closer sniff test. Yep. The power cord. I plugged it in and waited for a few minutes to see if it got worse. It did. I unplugged, went on amazon and ordered a new one.
Wednesday: thanks to Amazon and Prime, my new powercord is currently on a truck rolling its way to me. I’m so thankful! Also thankful that I have a backup, universal power cord at times like these. It kept me powered up yesterday.
So my recommendations: an emergency, backup universal power cord. Mine is by Targus. Get Amazon Prime. That $80 is money well spent when you consider how insanely fast they ship things, all the wonderful free books you can read, and all the free movies and TV you can watch. But of course, you won’t be watching TV, you’ll be reading!
Ciao, Wolfpack.