You know, I’m going to have to rearrange the table and chair in the hallway, I really am.
Or I’m going to have to go on a diet.
I think …
At any rate, whilst Café World’s quietly going ker-CHING* in the background, I’m happily tip-tapping away in the hallway, on the G3 iMac: the one I installed the Dapper Drake version of Xubuntu, a little while back?
The one that needs the new PRAM battery on it, but which has a clock that works fine, so long as it’s hooked up to the net … ?
Yeah, that one …
I’ve got to admit, over the weekend, we had a bit of a … Teacup … incident.
Yes, a Teacup incident.
That’s the phrase ...
A Teacup Incident ...
Remember last Movie Night?
I had a bit of a crowd in, and, while most of us were happily nattering, Sarah, bless ’er little purple hairdo, borrowed the iMac, to check her Facebook and email accounts.
I took her over a cuppa.
Plonked it down on the table.
And promptly it knocked over, all over the original Keyboard that came with the iMac.
Where could I have put my face … ?
I’m not too sure, actually!
But I am sure of what happened when the old keyboard dried out.
I got a hideous beeeeeeeeep noise, as the jammed letter ‘a’ on the iMac’s keyboard repeatedly entered the letter ‘a’ as my user name …
Mmmm …
Not good …
You can imagine how I felt, can’t you?
I had a knackered keyboard, and, as a result, a vintage iMac I couldn’t make use of .
Until, bless her, Allison came to the proverbial rescue!
We were up town, today, organising some paperwork for her - which is a whole other, very time consuming story - and Allison decided to treat me to an early birthday present. And bought me a cheap and cheerful, generic Texet computer keyboard, at the Brentwood branch of Wilkinson’s.
For which she got a suitable effusive ‘Thank You’!
Now, while it’s not an exact match^, I really can’t complain.
After all, the woman I love decided I should have something to say ‘Ta’ for helping her out.
* On the Mac Mini, running Snow Leopard …
^ After all, most PC keyboards have no USB ports to plug a mouse, or USB thumb drives, or dongles. But I’m not complaining too much!
Or I’m going to have to go on a diet.
I think …
At any rate, whilst Café World’s quietly going ker-CHING* in the background, I’m happily tip-tapping away in the hallway, on the G3 iMac: the one I installed the Dapper Drake version of Xubuntu, a little while back?
The one that needs the new PRAM battery on it, but which has a clock that works fine, so long as it’s hooked up to the net … ?
Yeah, that one …
I’ve got to admit, over the weekend, we had a bit of a … Teacup … incident.
Yes, a Teacup incident.
That’s the phrase ...
A Teacup Incident ...
Remember last Movie Night?
I had a bit of a crowd in, and, while most of us were happily nattering, Sarah, bless ’er little purple hairdo, borrowed the iMac, to check her Facebook and email accounts.
I took her over a cuppa.
Plonked it down on the table.
And promptly it knocked over, all over the original Keyboard that came with the iMac.
Where could I have put my face … ?
I’m not too sure, actually!
But I am sure of what happened when the old keyboard dried out.
I got a hideous beeeeeeeeep noise, as the jammed letter ‘a’ on the iMac’s keyboard repeatedly entered the letter ‘a’ as my user name …
Mmmm …
Not good …
You can imagine how I felt, can’t you?
I had a knackered keyboard, and, as a result, a vintage iMac I couldn’t make use of .
Until, bless her, Allison came to the proverbial rescue!
We were up town, today, organising some paperwork for her - which is a whole other, very time consuming story - and Allison decided to treat me to an early birthday present. And bought me a cheap and cheerful, generic Texet computer keyboard, at the Brentwood branch of Wilkinson’s.
For which she got a suitable effusive ‘Thank You’!
Now, while it’s not an exact match^, I really can’t complain.
After all, the woman I love decided I should have something to say ‘Ta’ for helping her out.
* On the Mac Mini, running Snow Leopard …
^ After all, most PC keyboards have no USB ports to plug a mouse, or USB thumb drives, or dongles. But I’m not complaining too much!
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