h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, the other day I was using the computer (h2g2 of course) and I slopped some coffee onto the keyboard. So I was like 'Oh, **** **** ****!!!!' and I wiped it up and it was fine for a few hours until the keys suddenly stopped working. Though it suddenly started printing out 'a'. So it looked like this:

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So that was a bit of a problem. But I managed to get it to stop, and I shut off the computer and turned the fan on the keyboard trying to dry it out, but it wasn't working. But the computer worked fine and we could still use it, just so long as we didn't have to type anything.

So this put a bit of a stall on my Entry writing/Subbing. I the next day I went to someone else's house to finish off a Subbing job I was in the middle of when all this happened. And off the site I have under construction another Entry which was coming along rather nicely and was just about finished and ready for Peer Reveiw. But with the keyboard dead, I couldn't work on it anymore.

But yesterday, we bought a new keyboard from the Mac store and it is all hooked up and working. Later I will get back to work on writing my Entry. The problem is that this new board doesn't make the nice tappity-type type-tappity-tap-tap noise that the old one made....

In other news, last night we went to a bookstore to see Mark Helprin at a book signing. We bought this new book of his called 'Freddy and Fredericka' and it is a spoof of Prince Charles. I can't wait to read it, it looks really funny.

And it is incredibly hot here. Like, a hundred and some degrees. Celsius.
No, just kidding, Farenheight. But it is really nasty. Luckily, I am going to the library in a little while, so it will be air-conditioned.

Oops, sorry about that, the way that post is all streched out with those 'a's. I didn't know that would happen.

It's called 'wide page syndrome'. Some researchers get all up in arms about it but it doesn't bother me that much.

Noisy keyboards are bad for me, because I'm always online when my parents think I'm asleep!