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The Rich Fact Webmistress and Her Clumsiness 4/20/02

I learned something last night. Okay, it's not new, but that's beside the point. I was going to take a drink from my can of Coke and what do I do? My usual clumsiness took over and I ended up pouring half of the can onto my desk, which in the end spilled into my keyboard. I didn't think I'd have a problem on my hands, since it had spilt on the side with the numbers in that calculator set up and all those keys I never use such as the Power, Sleep or Wake key. (Who does use these, if so, what do they do? I've always wanted to know.)

Boy, was I wrong.

It took a while for the keyboard to react, so I was fairly certain that I was going to be alright, just have a sticky part of my keyboard. Some how while I had cleaned up the mess, the soda had made it's invasion into the rest of my keyboard, knocking the left side out around 10:30. While it wasn't really a problem due to the fact I could still type words, even if when I hit a and s they popped up together as sa and when I hit w I ended up with qw. I was like, okay..hmm, maybe it's going to be okay if I clean it out a bit.

I still had the letter f at this point, which we know is very important. (Gee, I wonder how that letter could be important?) It didn't help that I was in a different chat, trying my hardest to decipher what ywesah i knowe thsat saucked out or anything else I was trying to say.

Around 1 in the morning, after I spent two hours trying to type anything at all and make coherence out of it, my f disappeared to become a file finder key. I knew then my keyboard was doomed to die for sure. Okay, so I knew it was going to die all along. I just was denying it, hoping I wouldn't have to go and buy new the next day.

Finally, when I could not type in anything any further, I had to shut my computer down, rudely exiting the chat I was in(for the first time for that matter) and reboot to check if I needed a new mouse. Not to mention the fact that many things on the screen were acting funny.

Those of you who do not use Delphi forums will not understand what I'm saying next, but here goes nothing. When I strated to click on various threads, instead of showing up on the right hand side of the screen, I got a whole new window. I thought "Uh oh." I was certain the new pricing thing had really gone into effect and this was the Basic level of Delphi now under these new pricing measures. I was not happy. But when I did reboot and check the forum, it acted as always. Then I went to bed.

I decided the next morning to buy a new keyboard, having the other one officially dead and buried. I also decided I'd buy one of them mugs with the top that fastens on so I could perhaps contain my damn clumsy acts to a minimum. We'll see if it works or not. Oh, and while I bought my keyboard and new mug, I bought new M&Ms with a new color in them. Much to my horror, it was pink and not purple that was in my bag. I don't like pink M&Ms. Okay, so this has nothing to do with my keyboard, but I'm sharing so shut up and listen.

I had no idea how many god damn words have a, s, d, c, w, and e in them until last night when I couldn't type them. There are a lot of them! It's amazing! But I am glad I do have a new keyboard and it's all good. Rest assured, guys, make sure you have a way to prevent such disasters. Hmm, maybe I should buy me a back up keyboard for next time I'm clumsy.