Darling and I have trouble communicating multiple U’s. Darling’s w-key is getting fussy about being pressed, it requires twice the pressure of any other key before it ill register a letter. The increasing dodgyness of the keyboard as one of the core early symptoms of Tinkerbell’s stealth senility and eventual NMI Parity death.
After over 2 years of daily blogging and travelling all over the place (and Spokane) maybe Darling is seeking retirement perks.
A temporary solution to Tinkerbell’s dodgy keyboard ($19.99) is a small USB keyboard. Matrix check’s it out over a cup of tea:
Before purchasing the keyboard I interviewed the Fry’s sales-staff about purchasing a replacement laptop. This is what he told me:
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The new Microsoft operating system is due out in this spring (any time now)
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The new operating system will only really work on ‘64 bit’ (what’s that?) computers so it wont be available on laptops until they standardly produce 64 bit laptops (at least another year away).
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Advised me to buy an XP pro Fugitsu laptop ($1,599 before tax).
I checked in with some people who work at Microsoft. I think they said that ‘Windows Vista’ (next Microsoft Operating System) will work on ‘32 bit’ machines (errr Laptops?) and will not be in stores until after August. Hmmmmm….
I’ve decided to try to hold-out until September before I try and replace Tinkerbell. The money for a temporary external keyboard seemed worth it so that I can see if their new operating system is in stores on ‘32 bit’ Laptops by then….
At home:
Tinkerbell’s d and t keys have joined her spaced-out space-bar in unpredictable land. Aaaaarghhh. My choices are
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)
