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Yesterday, as I was finally starting to get my shit together and preparing to work on fills for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fandomgiftbasket, I noticed something very unfortunate.
My laptop casing was beginning to split apart. My laptop battery was starting to swell.
For those of you who don't know, a swelling laptop battery can be VERY bad news. Like, starting fires, leaking toxic fumes, even exploding. So, because I cannot get along without a computer of some sort (I'm literally working on my IT course right now and pay by the month) I had to very quickly drop a bunch of money I don't really have to spare right now on a new laptop, which I will be picking up later today when I wake up.
It's not even new, really, because I definitely can't afford that. But it's a refurb, and it's only like a year old, which is leaps and bounds newer than the one I've been rocking. My current laptop is a 2014 and a refurb also, but it's so old and worn out that even though it was once a gaming laptop, it could barely survive using netflix and discord at the same time. So I mean. It'll be nice to have a new (to me) computer, but nooooo money.
I will be picking up shifts at work to compensate.
I also have to take current laptop to a repair place and pay them to open it and remove the swelling battery just so that it isn't, like, a dangerous hazard. I may or may not bother getting a new battery for it eventually, as this laptop is very old, but either way I do not want it to start any fires, leak toxic gas, or explode.
Yesterday, as I was finally starting to get my shit together and preparing to work on fills for
fandomgiftbasket, I noticed something very unfortunate.My laptop casing was beginning to split apart. My laptop battery was starting to swell.
For those of you who don't know, a swelling laptop battery can be VERY bad news. Like, starting fires, leaking toxic fumes, even exploding. So, because I cannot get along without a computer of some sort (I'm literally working on my IT course right now and pay by the month) I had to very quickly drop a bunch of money I don't really have to spare right now on a new laptop, which I will be picking up later today when I wake up.
It's not even new, really, because I definitely can't afford that. But it's a refurb, and it's only like a year old, which is leaps and bounds newer than the one I've been rocking. My current laptop is a 2014 and a refurb also, but it's so old and worn out that even though it was once a gaming laptop, it could barely survive using netflix and discord at the same time. So I mean. It'll be nice to have a new (to me) computer, but nooooo money.
I will be picking up shifts at work to compensate.
I also have to take current laptop to a repair place and pay them to open it and remove the swelling battery just so that it isn't, like, a dangerous hazard. I may or may not bother getting a new battery for it eventually, as this laptop is very old, but either way I do not want it to start any fires, leak toxic gas, or explode.
