I had a very busy day yesterday! Normally, my Sundays are spent lazing about in my apartment and recovering from Saturday night’s hangover but since I only had five bottles of beer that night (I spent Saturday at Anne‘s, nomming on her yummy pasta and chicken fajitas while a bunch of us watched Pieces, Maria Ozawa tentacle porn (gross), and The Big Bang Theory), my body felt pretty pleasant. Good, because I needed to look for a new router power adapter/cord.

Ridiculous how, after waking up from a nap to get ready for Anne’s, I plug in my router and poof! smoke. I stared at it dumbly while trying not to gag at the smell of bad egg and poof!!!, more smoke. I finally realized what just happened, unplugged it, and looked at my laptop (just in case the entire extension cord short-circuited). Phew, it was just the router.

The unit itself didn’t smell burnt, just the 110v to 220v converter and the power cord. Yay!, I thought. No need to buy a new unit! After asking around The Internets where I can find a new power cord, I told my brother what had happened, read a little about insurance marketing, and then left for dinner.

Come Sunday, I stashed the router, cord, and adapter in my bag and went about town looking for a replacement. Buying a new router was my last resort and bobdamnit, it seems to be my only resort. I went to several shops yesterday and none of them had this:

I was told by the nice guys at Ace Hardware to check Electronics Boutique (after telling them Deeko didn’t have it); if they don’t have it, then I’d have to go all the way to Raon in Quiapo. I think I’m just going to buy a new router and a new extension cord since I no longer trust that one socket.

Don’t laugh but I don’t know how to configure routers -_-

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