On Tuesday, Sep 23, 2003, at 20:40 US/Eastern, Patricia Dowden wrote:
Dear Tamara the Speechless,
Now that we know you are in enforced lurker status, we wait impatiently for your deathless prose. I hope the powers that be have been informed to not spare the horses!
I actuall paid extra $10 for speedy shipping (the pocket snake hissed loudly <g>), I was that tired of having nothing but the mouse at my disposal... Could forward messages, but couldn't clean them up (delete button didn't work), so, mostly, didn't. Could play solitaire but couldn't cheat (back-space arrow didn't work), so did it only while waiting for messages from Arachne to trickle in. Couldn't practice uploading photos to my newly-created website -- requires typing.
Couldn't even order the dratted replacement from the Apple website -- requires typing... A kind lady at the service help (phoned them) ordered it for me.
One thing I could and did do is print-out a big load of detailed photos of the Milanese wedding apron which someone sent me (that's on top of the official printouts I'd bought from Met). Each was in the vicinity of 2MB, which my printer thought was too much effort, so each took at least 10-15 minutes to spit out. So I've been putting it off for "sme day". Well, with nothing better to do, these past few days turned out to be the "someday" :)
I get the giggles imagining you ready to shred something . .
Not shred, but I was spitting mad, and some very strong Polish curses were blueing the air (ever notice how counting and cursing in a foreign language doesn't seem to be quite as visceral as that in your native one? And yet I *dream* in English).... <g>
Clay has given y'all the relevant details but I *still* cannot get over the fact how well our (mine and the Apple keyboard's) personalities match... Give it bourbon (diluted) or give it white wine (dry) and it'll have a few hiccoughs but, the next day, it's up and running, without a trace of a hangover. But give it perfectly innocent tea, and see what happens?
And I was only drinking tea (rather than something stronger) because it was still afternoon, and I was going to practice uploading the lace photos to the website, which requires extreme concentration on my part... I've learnt my lesson now :)
OTOH, I suppose, excess of T (however sweet and lemony-flavoured) might get anyone down... <g>
The new keyboard is sufficiently different from the old one to have given me a few heart-stopping moments when trying to connect it (the plugs are not in the same spots), but I'm back in business now. It has a different feel than the old one did, which I find annoying at the moment, but will get used to it in time (I found the old one annoying at first, too <g>). But the Shift key reacts every time on this one (didn't on the old one, had to go back and capitalise stuff half the time) and I'll have no trouble getting used to *that* <g>
PS. to those who offered advice on cleaning...
I blotted the tea immediately, with a well washed linen towel, then dampened another part of it in isopropyl alcohol (which is what I use to clean the smoke residue off the screen and other parts), and cleaned as much as I could (figured the sugar would make it sticky). Then used a hair dryer on gentle setting to speed up the drying. Each procedure seemed to worsen the condition. To begin with, only the corner which got doused was acting up -- Caps Lock, and left hand Shift, Control, Option/Alt and "bitten Apple/clover" (right hand ones were still operable). With the alcohol, it went haywire. With the dryer it died... All the same, I have not yet trashed the old keyboard and will try some of the suggested remedies -- like all of you have said, I can't hurt it now it's dead... :)
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