You can call it a Christmas Miracle.
You can call it Divine Intervention.
You can call it being put in your place.
But no matter what label you put on it, it's a story of selfless sacrifice.
Around Christmas I was playing CoD: MW2 with Flack and a bunch of people. We were playing for a couple hours and we were talking about zombies. I mentioned how the King Zombie of them all was Jesus. I mean, the guy died and rose from the dead. Normal people don't do that.
Before the next map started I told everyone it would be my last as it was getting late and I had to get up early the next morning for work. About 3 minutes into the map and I lose power.
I called Flack, told him what happened and hung up. I went to inspect the breaker when I noticed that other things in the living room were still on. I inspected a bit further and smelled burning plastic. My nose led me to my Monster Surge Protector.
It was dead.
I bought this surge protector because it was like the Secret Service - willing to take a bullet for you. And it did. The packaging (excuse the blurriest pic ever below) states clearly that it will put itself in harms way to save your electronics.
And it sure did.
I think God was trying to tell me something about commenting about Jesus' zombie-esque attributes by firing a warning shot at my TV, only to get consumed by my own personal bodyguard.
The surge protector was only $70 when I bought it and easily saved a couple thousand dollars worth of equipment but it was well worth it. Because of how certain they are of their product it comes with a lifetime warranty. The next day before work I brought it to where I bought it at Bestbuy and swapped it for a new one. No questions asked. I went ahead and paid the difference to upgrade it to an even better one that is rated for higher surges. Well worth it.
Like I said - Christmas Miracle, Divine Intervention, or being put in your place. No matter what you call it, I lost a good friend that night that took one for the team. He'll be greatly missed.
RIP Monster Surge Protector - November 2008 to December 2009