The (minor) Silliness Patrol

So, I had my first full, official session with the T30 running Puppy Precise 5.6.1, and it did great.  I actually managed to run the (new) battery down, as I was cranking through old Youtube videos. 

So, after I'd got the T30 back on the charger, I decided to do some more video browsing, so I grabbed the T410s, and headed to the kitchen table.  Was there for a while before the family starts giving me the evil eye. There's this sleep thing they wanted to partake in, and me sitting in the kitchen with all the lights on seems to be a hindrance to that.  So...

(Insert Trouble Here)

I put the 410s to sleep, got a drink to tote back to my room, then went to pick up the laptop.  Started to lift it by the front corner, and felt something like a small panel sliding off.  I looked, and...

Yeah, a little chunk of plastic right at the front corner of the machine had come off.  A quick inspection showed a very nice little break, like the system had been impacted very precisely on that corner.  I am honestly not sure when/where/how that happened.  Let's just say I wasn't happy.

Repair time.  But I couldn't remember if I had any glue to do the repair.  And I'm looking at a little few-millimeters-by-few-more-millimeters plastic chip, and knowing that it isn't going to survive long in my cluttered up room...

A quick search, and to my great relief, I found a tube of super glue left over from a long-ago repair job.  It even had a nice, precision application tip that would work fine with this particular task.  So, after a dry run (where I nearly lost the broken piece after making sure which way it fit), I applied a tiny bit of glue to the edges, and then replaced the broken bit.

The instructions were to hold the piece in place for 30 seconds.  In my overly fixated way, I exceeded that by about 25 seconds.  (You can never be sure!)  Then I went to check my handiwork.

Which would've been much easier if my finger would've come freely away from the corner of the T410s...

Yeah, I did.

A tiny drop of the glue had squeezed out when I'd pushed in on the piece.  And my finger was firmly attached to the edge with the glue.

The response, of course, was a very short, painful jerk away from the corner of the machine.  I half-expected the piece to come loose, but it didn't.  It was firmly attached.

And I'm now genetically encoded to my laptop via a tiny organic matrix chip on the body of the machine.

How's that for high-tech security?