Woo

No... not the romance kind of "woo..." the halfway to "woohoo" kind of "woo."

I ordered a power adapter for my laptop from some company in Hong Kong off of eBay. I got it... and it wasn't working.

Figuring that HK sellers probably don't guarantee against DOA shipments, I started tinkering with it. After messing with it a little bit, I finally got it working. Kinda.

Took a lot of getting the wall connector just right and some prayer, too.

But I got a full battery charge, and that made me happy.

Then I unplugged it to move it to a better location.

It quickly went useless again.

So, I did what I do best these days, I cracked up the wall connector piece and found the problem. One of the contact pads (I swear this kind of outlet connection design is absolutely stupid) went through some shoddy QC... seeing as the bloody thing was burned.

So now I have to find a replacement connector. My old one will work just fine, but this requires finding something that was probably thrown away a year ago.

Here's to hoping that filing a DOA claim with the seller will result in a new unit that fully works.

Oh how I hope.

I'm so ready to start recording music well again.

Speaking of music... great and exciting news in my next post.