So.

Today, after my seminar, I put my laptop into sleep mode and proceeded to my train.
Apparently, while I was on the train, it decided to be helpful and boot itself back up again.

This meant that during the hour and a half journey back to my house, it was running itself down to zero. With no heat extraction.

When I got home, I opened my bag to find a small wisp of smoke and the smell of burning plastic.
Some of my papers were singed. I quickly ripped the laptop out of my bag and laid it on a smooth wooden surface to cool down. The power button did nothing, understandably, until I plugged it in, upon which it immediately booted up and told me there was critical battery level left - 0%.

Trying to click things was futile, as the left mouse button was so hot that it had slightly melted. My thumb just rearranged the surface.

Panicking, horrified, I dashed to the computer to look up certain things. Like "my battery won't charge", which was met with "It's dead, get it replaced."

I dashed back to the laptop, which had booted fine, but was still not charging.

A half hour later, it's charging fine.

Onto the other thing, which I'm currently in love with.

The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Soundtrack is on Spotify - for those of you who don't know, it's a music streaming service for most of Europe, which should eventually get released in the Americas, if it hasn't already. The point is it streams faster than anything I've ever seen, and is totally legal.

The soundtrack itself is so epic, I can't get the main theme tune out of my head. You boot up the game to an epic orchestral military march accompanied by a male Russian choir. After the first verse it plays a quick ostinato on the strings and suddenly OBLIGATORY DRAMATIC KEY CHANGE, I love it.

I can't stop humming it over and over again. I think there must be some subliminal messaging in it or something.

When you get over the paratrooper bears and the unit that can go back and replay the last ten seconds of the game, and the epic soundtrack, you've actually got a pretty good game XD