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[kippurbird]

Technology has become rather irritating lately. The cat dislodged my "a" key when he jumped up using the laptop as a springboard. Obviously perturbed I tried to fix it. No such luck. I bring it home and try to see if my dad can fix it. He cannot and says we'll have to get a new keyboard. My mom thinks we should try gluing the key back on.

Now, we have a spare keyboard for this computer, except we don't know where it is. Asking around I discover that not only can you not replace the key, but it'll cost about a hundred dollars to get the keyboard installed. Which I think is utterly stupid. Why should I have to pay so much for one little key? The rest of the keyboard is perfectly fine.

I bought a cheap roll up keyboard from Staples, and that's what I'm using right now. The keyboard isn't so bad,just takes some getting used to, figuring out how to hit the keys correctly.

Also, I can now run around naked in my apartment because my roommate has moved out and I don't have a new one yet. =D


And on a totally different tangent, my eggs all hatched!

Comments

[smurasaki.livejournal.com]

Boo about the keyboard issue, but yay for no more icky banana peels (and whatever else your roommate cursed you with).

[alexseanchai]

aol.com's Ten Books to Read Before You Die:

"The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Robert Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci -- clues visible for all to see -- yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. The Da Vinci Code heralds the arrival of a new breed of lightning-paced, intelligent thriller...utterly unpredictable right up to its stunning conclusion."

Also: "When a canister of anti-matter is stolen from a Swiss research facility, Robert Langdon is called in to investigate. A Harvard professor, Langdon is an expert on the ancient, quasi-scientific, and widely feared organization know as the Illuminati, who may or may not be wrapped up in the mystery. Angels and Demons preceeds The Da Vinci Code."

It's otherwise a good list--Gone with the Wind, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, The Stand (which I've never read, but the one Stephen King book I have read is good), To Kill a Mockingbird, Atlas Shrugged (which I'd swap for 1984, myself, but it's still a decent choice), Catcher in the Rye, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy--but WTF does Dan Brown have not one but two slots on that list for?

At least they left off Eragon.