happy birthday and thank you Mac

Spent some time today finding out if my laptop was damaged when a glass of water was spilled on it last night. The local laptop hospital said it could dry it out for $200 but no guarantees and I certainly wasn't going to spend any $ on a 5 yo computer. So ... The Apple geniuses will inspect and test it for free. It passed!!!!! It works today!! Lucky I say. I learned a few things tho -if this happens, unplug and turn it off instantly ( I didn't do that for 10 minutes but at that time the screen had gone blank but was flashing lights, and some mysterious (but beautiful) operatic aria was playing -not anything we were playing then. But clearly something was shorting out ..)
Then the Internet told me to remove the battery . But I couldn't get the back cover off . So I laid it upside down on rice for the night ( also suggested on the Internet.). I'm writing this down so if it happens to anyone of you you can react faster than I did.
Of course the biggest lesson is to not put any liquid drink anywhere near on the same surface as the laptop ever ! ( I knew that.....)
Am backing everything up right now and will keep a close eye on it-it's possible it might still fail. But we dodged that for the time being! Made my day!