• uniquely-ironic said on Apr 02, 2008....

  Sounds like a good couple of days to me!!
   
  Hope you are feeling better soon.

• evil_twin said on Apr 02, 2008....

  I really should clean my keyboard too. I eat at my desk all the time and there are definite crumb pieces lurking around. Not to mention dust and all sorts of things I don't know what they are.
  
  I hope you feel better soon though :-) And I'm glad you got your internet back! I literally go insane when mine isn't working. It's like drug withdrawal....
  
  -evil_twin LA
  

• nytquill17 said on Apr 02, 2008....

  U-I: Thanks.  Now I've got the hiccups on top of everything.  Somebody shoo -hic!- shoot me. :p
  
  E_T: I know what you mean.  At least a dozen times I actually sat down at my desk to google something, and I had my hand on the mouse before I remembered.  It's like an automatic motion :p
  
  The internet is like my second brain.  I'm so used to having anything I need or want to know right there at my fingertips.  And all my games.  It's always really weird not having it, even though I still remember (vaguely) the days before internet and I know I am perfectly capable of suriving without it.  I just don't WANT to!  And to be honest, society is not going back from here, not voluntarily.  So there's no reason to put any pressure on myself :p
  
  I hate how dependent I am on technology without even realizing it.  But I like video games and computer games, and I like posting and chatting and browsing.  Too much to give it up voluntarily.  I mean, I met my husband online (through a game)!  At least I do still read books from time to time...
  

• the_infernal_optimist said on Apr 02, 2008....

  A whole day without internet?? I'd be bonkers! I'm glad it's working now.
  
  I don't even want to know what my keyboard looks like under the keys! :-D Eww...
  
  Hope you feel better soon, too. ((hugs))
  
  ~Infernal
  

• Trinov said on Apr 02, 2008....

  Hi, its possible to use a vacuum cleaner on the keyboard and I sometimes use vinegar to get the grease off the keys. That is my pet peeve and probably comes from eating chocolate to revive the soul at the keyboard.

• nytquill17 said on Apr 02, 2008....

  I sicced my hand vac on it but it couldn't handle the cat fur/grease/bread crumbs combo!
  
  I have oily skin and even if I never ate at my desk, my keys would get greasy.  But the eating doesn't help.  I'm not about to give it up though!  I eat consciously even at my desk, and we don't have a dining table (I've co-opted it for counter space since we have none).
  

• Trinov said on Apr 02, 2008....

  Cookie and ricecake crumbs are pretty bad for the key function also. Cat fur dosen't seem to make too much trouble, the cat however, loves to run over the keyboard and push all sorts of keys and mess up the programs.

• silverwhisper said on Apr 04, 2008....

  OK, i'm a bit of a fanatic about keyboard hygiene. i always wash my hands before sitting down to a computer, b/c i know i can't clean it the way i really want!
  
  you know, having seen the shipping news, i have to confess i'm not a fan. :
  
  ed

• nytquill17 said on Apr 04, 2008....

  Bah.  The book is better than the movie (if it tells you anything, most people in the class I was reading it for enjoyed the book but thought the movie was crap).  I appreciated it more than most because of my connection to the region, so the visuals and the details were a treat for me.  But I agree it doesn't do the book justice at all, and it's not exactly a gripping film ^^
  
  It's a better read, for example, than Snow Falling on Cedars, a.k.a. Sleep Falling on Readers (seriously, my professor called it that :p )
  

• silverwhisper said on Apr 04, 2008....

  i have to say, snow falling on cedars came out at the same time more or less as cider house rules and the mrs and i had the hardest time keeping 'em straight!
  
  ed

• nytquill17 said on Apr 05, 2008....

  lol! I can imagine!
  
  The thing about the book is that the author is very methodical, spends literally all day to write just 400 words or so, and it shows when you read through it.  The plot has merit but oh my god plodding through that book was something else!
  

• silverwhisper said on Apr 05, 2008....

  see, that little detail guarantees that i will never, ever read it.
  
  ed

• nytquill17 said on Apr 05, 2008....

  I don't blame you.  It's not a book I recommend to others, for example.  I can't comment as to its literary merit but it was a bear to read.
  
  Unlike The Shipping News :D
  

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