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Forgetfulness
Nov. 15th, 2016 06:45 pmSo, I get home from Novacon yesterday afternoon and go to switch on my netbook computer and i can't find the power connector for it. I looked in both of my bags. I know I had it in my hotel room that morning so I guess I must have left it there when I finished packing. The netbook was the last thing I put in my bag.
I phoned the the hotel who told me that they'd ask house-keeping to get back to me. There was no phone call as of ten o-clock this morning so I phoned them back and was put through to house-keeping immediately. They said they had it and would ask front desk to post it back to me (as it is unlikely I'll be in Nottingham again before next Novacon). So I then had to wait for the front desk to phone me back. They did after about an hour or so, and said they'd post it, charging the cost to the credit card I'd used to pay the bill.
However, in the interim I'd ordered a replacement from Amazon, thinking that having a spare would be useful just in case I do something like this again. Meanwhile, last I checked the charge on the netbook was down to 50% and I presume that as Windows computers don't power down completely when you shut them down, there is a constant power drain even on a swtiched off computer. It will be a race as to which will happen first, the original connector arrives, the new connector arrives, or the battery goes completely flat. My guess is that all three will happen about simultaneously.
I phoned the the hotel who told me that they'd ask house-keeping to get back to me. There was no phone call as of ten o-clock this morning so I phoned them back and was put through to house-keeping immediately. They said they had it and would ask front desk to post it back to me (as it is unlikely I'll be in Nottingham again before next Novacon). So I then had to wait for the front desk to phone me back. They did after about an hour or so, and said they'd post it, charging the cost to the credit card I'd used to pay the bill.
However, in the interim I'd ordered a replacement from Amazon, thinking that having a spare would be useful just in case I do something like this again. Meanwhile, last I checked the charge on the netbook was down to 50% and I presume that as Windows computers don't power down completely when you shut them down, there is a constant power drain even on a swtiched off computer. It will be a race as to which will happen first, the original connector arrives, the new connector arrives, or the battery goes completely flat. My guess is that all three will happen about simultaneously.
