My friend's mother tripped over the powercord to her laptop. The laptop was on the floor so there was no drop damage but she ripped out the power port off of the laptop. The result it the laptop still works but there is no way to charge the battery or even turn the thing on. She asked if I could fix it.

Umm...no. I *might* be able to solder it back in place, but I can't vouch that it will work and I might kill the whole thing in the process.

But guess what...its the same model as my laptop! So I'm going to use my laptop to charge the battery and that should give me enough time to back up her data. For payment I get the broken laptop. Which means I have a spare battery, spare powercord, spare LCD, and so on.

About time I cashed in on karma points!