Mar 02 2006
key bored
At home:
Tinkerbell’s d and t keys have joined her spaced-out space-bar in unpredictable land. Aaaaarghhh. My choices are
- RSI (free)
- replace fitted keyboard ($30 + my skrewdriver labour)
- add wireless keyboard ($30 no screwdriver labour)
- use work laptop (free)
- buy pretty new laptop (expensive, I am worth it ;-))
- Ask Anne to get whizzy with her keyboard-fixing skills on Tinkerbell
At work:
him: “Wendy its an emergency I need a laptop 15 minutes ago, can I borrow yours?”
Wendy: “Urrrgghhh, yes, give me 10 minutes to log-off. This old crate is S L O W” (moves to use a Desktop. Desktop? - big screen, big keyboard, huge heavy towery thing, not so easy to run with as a laptop)
15 minutes later, sweat pouring from his brow:
Him: “I can’t log-in”
Wendy: “Oh yeah, I fogot to mention the shift-keys don’t work. Fatally wounded by some Tea. Yeah. On both sides. Just the shift keys. Tea has amazing shift-key-targeting ability. Earl Gray you know. Don’t trust it near your Laptop. Better to drink it. Use Caps-Lock instead of shift. Tea doesn’t target caps-lock“ (I realized several utterances ago that he was too flustered to listen to my ramblings. I do enjoy torturing the locals, and you, with trivia.
Him: “that worked“ (demonstrates running with laptop)
Wendy “remember to boot it about 15 minutes before you need to use it, it’s S-L-O-W” (shouted down the corridor)
key bored
Mmm, lucky for me, the space bar damage was because the wire bit unhooked. Once you spill tea or soda in there, you’re kinda done.