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Anyone here who knows me at all also knows I'm a computer dufus. I can get around ok due mainly to a wife who first, wanted me to learn and second, has infinite patients. polarheart and gingersoul helped along the way too.

Anyway, about a year ago we got a new computer. Something happened to the keyboard, so I got my wife a Super-Duper-Ergonomic-Kickass Microsoft Keyboard. I loved that keyboard. I could type really well and it had all kinds of neat stuff on it.

But alas...our computer station is a snack station. A snack station is a crumb and mess station mixed with numerous sticky liquids. I couldn't guess how many pounds of junk that board collected, but I do know its death knell came via beyondtheveil through a large glass of Blackberry-Cranberry Juice. After cleaning up that particular mess, I lost seven keys - that I know of.

So I rushed to the nearest board store and there wasn't much choice. I ended up with a cheap rectangular board. Piece of crap. Seems like every time I hit the "a", I hit the 'Caps Lock' and would type three sentences before noticing. It didn't have the 'neat stuff' like a calculator. Or the one button to push for e-mail and my homepage.

After several screaming fits which required high blood pressure medicine, last weekend I went to a real board store (Office Depot) and got another Super-Duper-Ergonomic-Kickass-Microsoft Keyboard. And it's wireless. And the mouse is wireless. And it has an indentation on the Caps Lock key to keep me away from it. And it has all the goodies. So many I don't know what most of them are for. But I have instructions.

I'm careful with this one.

No free food.

No Blackberry-Cranberry Juice.

I push it inside the station when I eat and drink like a barbarian.

Life is good again.


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  • Lucytorial said on Oct 08, 2009....
    LOL you know key boards are very personal things, I hate those crappy rectangular number where you have to POUND the keys to get any sense out of it.  I love the keyboard to my lap top, its so sensative I can touch type, and my hands fit perfectly over all the keys....
     
    Barbarian huh? somehow I didn't see you this way.
  • simplyconfused said on Oct 08, 2009....
    Keyboard where the letters and split in the middle? =O  
  • gingersoul said on Oct 08, 2009....
    Beybey......oh, i am very happy of having helped you toward your enlightment....lol...
     
    Hey, i used to have an ergonomic keyboard too...
     
    Well...i tossed it away.....
     
    I am old fashioned......i do like these rectangular ones...i only wish to buy me one that is all colored.....;-p
     
    Uhmm........you drinking Cranberry juice like a barbarian?....
     
    This has been your turn to give me a nice visual.....;-p
  • mobil said on Oct 08, 2009....
    Well uck me yund, I'm still missin my  key and my      keys . We dn't g  n  ard stres here.
  • beyondtheveil said on Oct 08, 2009....
    lucy- Yes, they are quite personal. I've never used a laptop, by the way. Seems like most of the people I know have them. I need one for when I go out of town, which is a lot, but the price of them tell me to wait 'till I get back.

    simply- I've seen the ones split in the middle. Same basic design, but this one isn't split. They are really rather large, which helps me. 

    soulgirl- The cranberry juice was one of the screaming fit episodes. You wouldn't want to have seen that. The vocabulary was also...well...different. And I thought you would like an ergonomic board, being shapely yourself.

    mobil- Damn, man, you haven't replaced that board yet?....oh, that's right, it's below zero there. I'll send you the one I took out - it's like new. And UPS will slog through the snow and right to your door.
  • simplyconfused said on Oct 08, 2009....
    ahh okay, the ones that are split look kind of confusing to use =p I'd love to try em though XD
  • gingersoul said on Oct 08, 2009....
    Awww....that's nice....thank you.....;-p

    Between you and I......i like some "different" language here and there......lol........

    I mean......when its time to use it, it needs to be used... .  
  • beyondtheveil said on Oct 08, 2009....
    simply- They may be just what you would like. I'd definitely try one before buying, though.

    ginsoul- "Different" language has greatest impact when coming from someone who rarely uses it. I laugh myself silly when my wife uses the 'f' word. No matter what's happening, I just have to laugh.
  • Hegemone said on Oct 09, 2009....
    You know, sometimes we take these awesome things for granted and don't think of it until they meet their untimely demise, lol.  Sorry to hear of the passing of an old, trusted friend ... but glad you have a new one to get to know ... and to keep safe.  :-D
  • beyondtheveil said on Oct 10, 2009....
    hege- I honestly thought I'd never become attached to a keyboard. But little things that make life better - good stuff. I'm taking care of this one, by the way. 
  • Voltaire said on Oct 23, 2009....
    I have always loved Logitech stuff, good quality for a fair price.

    But then most of my keyboards die from heavy use.
    As a member of 12+ forums it takes its toll on the keyboard.
     (uses another nick name)

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