June 07, 2005

It's been an interval for the ages

Hey ya'll... good news. I don't think I told ya'll the original back story, so will do so now. Much of the recent this and that has surrounded this specific problem for several weeks. I'm almost sure I'd informed ya'll about the laptop keyboard problem I previously had for which I dispute responsibility, but had turned in the loaner, and despite being forced to pay for something that should have been covered via the extended warranty, was pleased to find my own laptop back in possession and working appropriately -- for a whole day and a half.

Yep. I had just gotten it back and was using it on long car trips to do the last round of substantive re-writes when a bit of Dr. Pepper sloshed out of my cup onto the edge of the keypad. Despite all my prompt action to remove all traces of the offending liquid and the delay in showing the effects, soon I noticed that I could not type "a, z, q, 1, !, Q, A, [or] Z" or use CAP LOCK or TAB. I just could not face taking it back in for repairs, so have been lagging here and there using my workaround, a clipboard manager with all the necessary letters and characters ready to be pasted where they are needed. I'll quickly confess that when I was hitting CONTROL-V, it was to paste "a" on more occasions than not.

Well, now that you are up to speed ... I am glad to report that, for some odd reason, today, all those keys started working like they were supposed to function. You'd be supprised how much faster I can type if I am not having to stop here and there to paste a letter into place on a very regular occasion. You do know that, despite the very variety of specially functioning analgesics you can find at CVS Walgreen's Walmart the drugstore, they have still not come up with one that will really put a stop to a real pain in the ass. I suppose, however, that when one is produced, it will have to be in suppository form.

My navel is basking in its new found prominence, but I am vowing, still, to lose weight. End of report.

Posted by Tiger at June 7, 2005 09:50 PM
Comments

Glad yours is back up and running right.

They can invent submersible cameras for crying out loud - why not make other electronics impenetrable to liquids?!

I dropped my beloved PDA in some H20 a couple of weeks ago. It was only in there a nano-second.

Now: nada. And I am lost without it. Amazing how you can become so dependent on something I apparently took for granted.

Posted by: GrumpyBunny at June 8, 2005 12:09 PM

I know a thing or two or three or four about keyboard spills. I feel your pain.

Posted by: Jay at June 8, 2005 07:45 PM

I'm surprised that my keyboard still works, what with all the crap my son has spilled on it...

Whoa, I better not jinx myself...*knocks on wood*...

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at June 12, 2005 08:17 AM