Teach Soap

Help me out geeky soap makers!

I have procrastinated on a task The Boyfriend has been pestering me about: learning how to open my laptop to clean the fan and get dust and other crap outta there. Our house has plenty of dust and the fan is getting louder and louder - obviously needs a little TLC.

Now - I am smart but not a "natural geek" - machines and I have had a long relationship of dancing around each other. I designed and built the desktop I am using at the moment (which I call "April II" - for the first month or so I was amazed the thing turned on and worked - I kept expected it to blow up and say "oh, you THOUGHT you could build a computer, huh?") - with lots of support but NOT the kind that gives me the answer on a silver platter. Love The Boyfriend to death but he thinks everyone should be a tech geek. Not that learning more about computers is a BAD thing - but I have a horrible time getting started. But its never as bad as I think its going to be once I get going.

I've watched dozens of videos on how to do it - so almost ready. But it doesn't help that each one starts with the disclaimer: "WARNING: If you open your laptop it might not work again." Gee - thanks for the encouragement. And prying the keyboard off the front does NOT look easy. Yipes.

So I told myself: "NO SOAP until you clean your laptop".

I need a virtual kick in the you know what.

Luckily, most keyboards are on with a couple screws and come off pretty easily. But I understand how you feel! My Grandparents got me an alienware lappy for graduation a few years ago, opening up a $6000 lappy is TERRIFYING! But the model specific videos (try on youtube) make it super easy!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

I just let my son, who is the computer guru do it for me.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

I think I'd be wheeling & dealing with the Boyfriend..."Honey, if you'll clean my laptop, I'll do____ (fill in something that he hates to do!) for you.

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Why do YOU need to do this?
Let him do it or bribe him.

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

DONE!!!!!!!!!

Even have the photos to prove it, but too "teched out" today to upload. But the best part is: if I want to add more memory, replace a crashed hard drive, etc...now I KNOW HOW having explored the guts of my laptop. And the fan was seriously gunked up with dust. Much quieter now.

Back to soapmaking! My first recipe using lard is my next project.

YAY!!!!!!
You will love the lard soap.

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

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Lisa
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul” ~ Yiddish proverb

I didn't know laptops came apart. My last one (lasted 6 years) never got opened that I know of and neither has this one. I just blow the keyboard off or dust it once in a very blue moon.

Do I really have to take it apart and clean it?

Jill

I've just always had my laptop sitting on a cookie cooling rack . . . and I wouldn't dream of trying to take it apart even with supervision (she's only 6!) !

Jill