This is what I get for bringing work on vacation...or is the issue postponing deadlines?

So, I had made quite a bit of progress with the work I neglected to complete before leaving for vacation and brought along with a July 7th deadline. No biggy, I thought, work a couple of hours a day, and Presto! All caught up. Only one problem...

Got up today, beautiful and sunny, monkeys even louder than usual, so, thinking they were close, I packed my things and headed out early, figuring I could get a closer glimpse than yesterday (oh, yes, forgot, did see them in the trees yesterday, but not close enough to photo). No such luck - they hunkered down and out of sight before I could get to them. Turning back, I headed to the bakery and settled on the patio as they weren't yet open. Took out the laptop, logged in, opened email, read a few, then nothing. Black screen. No response. Charged overnight, so that wasn't it, but plugged in just in case. Green light, but no action...laptop is D-E-D "ded," as my old friend Henry from FNX used to say. 

Not panicking yet, I text the IT director who walks me through a few things, only to tell me he's never seen this before except with a spill. "I promise, I didn't spill!" I texted back. We decided it might be the humidity, so, since I don't use AC down here and couldn't comply with his suggestion to leave out in AC for a bit, it now sits cozily in the lockbox its neoprene case.

Still not panicking, I figure, I have the Baseline Edge iPad app...it goes without saying that in addition to the laptop, I also traveled to my far away beach destination with iPhone and iPad. I know, very 21st century of me. Unfortunately, I quickly found that 1) the BLE iPad app only allows observation entry, not evaluation forms, and 2) though only Safari (blecchh, as Charlie Brown would say) will run the full app on my Macs, not EVEN Safari will allow me to enter into the data fields for the EOY evaluation forms. In essence, I'm screwed. 

Believe it or not, I have still not panicked. Called HR, Cindy (secretary) and James (assistant principal), created one work around plan that was foiled, and then another that will get me through. What would we do without Google Drive? And I now know that the matching Google Apps, Drive, Docs, and Sheets are pretty sweet.

Oh, and the rest of my day? Truthfully, every so often I pulled out the laptop and tried it again, just in case. I spent a good part of the day organizing my newly created forms and evidence notes, but, BECAUSE I AM SUPPOSED TO BE ON VACATION, 

I made a new friend in the pool:

And this is how my evening concluded:

Never can turn down a passion fruit mojito with my favorite orange limes. A perfect match with the squid ink paella. yum! 

And tomorrow's another day in paradise. Pura Vida!