My cat, adorable little creature that he is, got a little too much “me me me pet me” one day and knocked over an almost full adult beverage. The beverage was naturally right in the middle of a triangle with my iPad, iPhone, and MacBook Pro at each point. Everything got a little damp. Not too wet to stop working, or so I thought, as everything continued to function just fine.

But I got to work the next day and noticed that the MagSafe light on my 2011 MacBook Pro wasn’t working. The laptop would get power through the MagSafe port, but would not charge the battery even after trying several adapters. I’d had problems with that port before, and I figured it had finally died on me. Later that day, I had a few OS X crashes and decided to re-run setup. This generated an error message that the SSD…