So a few months ago, I was heading to work, steppedout the front door and onto the first step. Then blam! I was on my ass and I smashed my back into the bottom stair. I was in severe pain as I had injured my back only a week previously. I went back inside and called in, then settle into a less painful position to relax for the duration of my shift.

I whipped out my laptop very slowly, and noticed the screen was dead. So I was out a laptop, right?

Wrong.

I did some shopping around for a a new screen and found it, ranging in price from $50 to $500, which was more than twice the price of the laptop to begin with. So I said “Screw it,” for a while until my brother offered to get me a new laptop screen. That arrived today, but the installation was hell.

In order to replace a 10.1″ laptop screen you have remove 10 tiny screws from random places throughout the back of the screen.  Which isn’t a problem if you are doing computer repair in a proper place. But in a dark basement with very little in the way of light makes thing difficult. But I managed, through sheer frustration, to install the screen. Which was a massive pain. And irritating. But my laptop is functional again. So hooray.