Today I Learned!*

*ok well it was last night but that's not as fun to say

I have a laptop stand that I use and have used for years to just keep a little bit of air flow and "cooling" under my laptop.  (By the way the company that makes this laptop says it is NOT a laptop it is a portable computer and we are not supposed to use it on our laps, nope!  To which I reply... guffaw!)

I got this stand a number of years ago at IKEA, it wasn't expensive, and it's light and it does it's job just fine, yay.

So yesterday I had sore thighs.  Like as if I had had an intense "leg day" at the gym, which I had not and so that evening I got a hot water bottle and put it on my thighs to try to get them feeling better and while I watched a show I let the heat soak in to my thighs.

Eventually (duh) I had to get up to pee and when I went to move my laptop aside it.... stuck?  What?  It was heavy?  I really wasn't sure what was going on!

Well it turns out that this laptop stand has a (had) little rubber foot thing along the one edge which makes TOTAL sense for non-slip factor, but the heat from the hot water bottle had melted it (I had no idea!) and that melt had stuck the rubber to the case of the hot water bottle (if you're a hot water bottle user, a case is the most delightful thing ever IMO!) and well, wow, I had not seen that coming!

If I knew the stand had a rubber footing band I had forgotten and I didn't think about the heat from the hot water bottle being "too hot" as it was mitigated by the cover and the pj bottoms I was wearing.  OOps!

I put the laptop aside and flipped the stand upside down so the rubber could stop melting and then I took the hot water bottle case, that I've had since FOREVER (honestly maybe high school or right after, it's old and worn!) and started picking and pulling off the melted rubber.  I pulled off as much as I could (really pulling out the fibers) and then cut/trimmed some and then put it in the wash to get off as much more as I could.

Now there is just one strip of black left on the case and I'm trying to be more aware of the fact that hot things make other things hot too, hello! And that could cause a melting you're not thinking of, oops.