Posted by spoc on May 7, 2004, at 15:13:03
In reply to Re: better give it back..., posted by ghost on May 5, 2004, at 12:20:45
>... funny, somewhat unrelated story: i had a bad spell awhile ago, and was doing my usual online journal venting, and i splashed a few drops of water (not much at all) on my laptop kb and a bunch of the keys just STOPPED WORKING. i was furious. (espeically since my previous laptop had withstood countless soda spills without any problems for many years and this laptop was much newer). it was late at night and all the computer stores were closed. so i went to walmart and bought a cheap $10 kb to get me through the night. but it turns out it was only a ps/2 keyboard (or whatever those round ports are), and my laptop only had usb ports. it came with an adapter but it was the wrong one. i was so angry i smashed the kb to BITS. broke every key off of it. keys were everywhere. i was all bruised up.
the next day i cleaned up all the keys and saved them in a bag (hey, i could use them for art or something). awhile later, when i'd forgotten about the incident, i found a key laying out in the open on my floor. it was (you may have guessed) the escape key. >----
I don't know why it is that some descriptions in particular, not always necessarily the likely ones, will jump out at me and make me really feel the sadness there. And here, you were leading up to the relative humor in having later found the 'escape' key remaining out in the open, after you cleaned up. But for some reason when I was reading this post last night, I felt like crying, picturing you giving up in frustration over some simple thing that you had gone to great lengths to be able to do in order to feel better for awhile, like composing in your online journal. It just sounds like such a sad, empty late night mess to be in!Anyway, I hope you find a way to feel better soon (you and me both)! :- )
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