Surge Protection

So, remember I told you that while on vacation my husband's laptop had some issues. Well, after a day on the phone with Dell and an overnight delivery of a new DVD player, the laptop was up and running yesterday from about 8pm on. But isn't life just like this, today as the laptop was charging at about 3pm in the afternoon, the summer time rain storm came through. Lightning and thunder was heard outside as our home took an electric surge and the next thing my son hears is a crackling noise coming from where else, my husband's laptop. His computer took a hit and it fried the audio card. The computer was only going for about 19 hours and BOOM, another problem.

It is so much like life, you get an issue taken care of in your life, or a situation is cleared up or fixed and watch out, because he comes another one. The frustrating part is that we just got the laptop to working order and now it has a new problem. Do you ever feel like you just got steady on both feet and the rug is pulled out again before you even got your breath?

We did find out that the computer was plugged into the wall charger that was plugged directly into the wall and not a surge protector.

So many times we don't take the time to make sure we are plugged in to the PROTECTOR, and BOOM we fall down.

Tomorrow we will call customer support, and take the necessary steps to fix the problem, and learn from our mistakes. Does it mean no more lightning storms? No. It does mean we will make sure we are plugged into the right protection each and every time we need to charge it again!!!!