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<\/a>Thinking that maybe I’d gotten mixed up about which laptop I was using (one has the socket on one side, and one has the socket on the other), I carefully examined the laptop from all angles. No, that was the only round hole. I tried it again. No dice. Not even close.<\/p>\nAbout this time I remembered that people who have strokes sometimes can’t figure out how to do tasks they’ve performed a million times. And I’ve plugged my computer in at least a million times. I’m attached at the hip to this machine. And yet I simply could not wrap my head around how the cord was supposed to attach.<\/p>\n
I examined the laptop again.<\/p>\n
I examined the cord again.<\/p>\n
Both seemed unharmed. And yet the two simply would not connect.<\/p>\n
I tried to envision the effortless action of connecting the two — that action I’ve performed more often than I’ve done nearly any other action over the course of the last few years.<\/p>\n
I examined the laptop one more time.<\/p>\n
Finally, in utter frustration (and not a little bit worried for my sanity), I wrapped up the cord to put it away in my computer bag.<\/p>\n
And there, to my complete surprise, was another power cord.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, I’d grabbed the cord to a work-owned machine by accident, not realizing that my own cord was already nestled in its little pouch in the computer bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Running to a meeting, I picked up my computer bag and grabbed the power cord from my desk. Arriving a couple minutes early for the meeting, I flipped open the computer, whipped out the cord, and plugged the cord in. Or rather, I expected to plug the cord in. There was simply no way the … Continue reading Neuro Test Please<\/span>