Out of Cheese

Two weeks ago, I noted the unfortunate demise of my Pismo PowerBook’s LCD screen and pondered just how much money — no small amount, undoubtedly — fixing it would cost.

Turns out that I’m quite fortunate to have good friends in the right places. Louis offered a discounted Pismo LCD and advice on what LCD models would fit, Jeff offered to install it for free, and folks at work mentioned that we had an ancient prototype system that had already been scavenged for most parts other than the LCD, so I could use that one instead of paying for Louis’ Pismo. With Louis’ system as a backup, Jeff performed PowerBook surgery this afternoon. The operation took a few hours longer than expected, but the PowerBook came out wonderfully in the end. May there be no more dropped PowerBooks in my life for many years to come….