Oh the joys of a broken keyboard. For the past week and a half, I have been painstakingly pounding out everything I wanted to type via a crazy combination of typing on letters that don’t work and clicking them out on the on-screen keyboard. It is the most annoying thing I have encountered recently, especially since I pride myself in my efficient typing skills. Communicating just isn’t the same when you have to spend quadruple the amount of time getting something out. Instant message conversations are supposed to be just that: INSTANT. I hate it when I have to slooowly click out what I’m trying to say and hope that it still works in the moment when the real moment passed minutes ago. Some of what I say is time sensitive! GAH.
Well, thankfully I am being helped out by a friend who ordered a replacement keyboard for me and will help me put it in next week. In the mean time, I managed to borrow an external keyboard from him and found that I had gotten so used to the unruliness of my fried keys that it took me a few minutes to get back up to proper typing speed. It’s such a relief to be able to express myself as I used to. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to wait this out too much longer. I am not the most patient of people when it comes to basic things like this that I don’t think I should ever have to deal with. I am an extremely expressive person and I’d lose it if I couldn’t use language to bring that out in me the way I enjoy.
Now hopefully with this disaster behind me, I will get back to posting more regularly. Previously it was such a pain I couldn’t handle it, with my mind running a mile a minute and my fingers going one word per minute. -____- What a great match-up.