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Friday, January 02, 2004

Is it worth putting on outdoor clothes?

We got a new keyboard from ebay today. It turned out that the guy had sent us a European keyboard by mistake -- which was interesting, but not very practical. And herein lies the all-time speed record in our household for destruction by a child: by the time I went to put the old keyboard back on the computer, C (that's C, I was getting tired of saying C, so just know from now on that C=C) had used her kid scissors to not only bend every pin in the old keyboard's connector, but also to break off the little doohickey in the middle of it that tells you which way to plug it into the port. Asked why, she said that she "wanted to make the sticks along the sides, not be on the sides anymore." Well, it worked. So for the time being I'm using an old keyboard, a good comfortable ergonomic one which had, at least when used with our old system, the unfortunate habit of simply ceasing to communicate with the computer at intervals, generally in the middle of a really sensitive or fun instant-messaging conversation.


I'm trying to decide if I want to travel alone to the Valley tonight, to browse and relax in Barnes and Noble, and make use of my gift cards, as well as doing some necessary shopping (like, for instance, for a new keyboard, since the whole "shift produces capital letters" concept seems to have just begun eluding this one completely; have to use caps lock). Part of me wants solitude and quiet and BOOKS (OK, it's just the b and the n that shift won't work with, that is truly bizarre), and part of me wants to sit at home with my agreeable family and my heating pad and A.S. Byatt's Possession instead of driving through the dark and the rain for 50 minutes each way. Not to mention that I'd have to change out of my pajamas to go to the bookstore. hmm. decisions, decisions.


the question mark doesn't work either. This settles it. best buy, here I come...

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