[I Was Naked]
When I Wrote ThisFor Want of a Nail...
2008-04-13
Or in my case, in want of a working shift key I couldn't write a blog.
Pretty lame excuse when you think about it, unless you type a mile on my keyboard. It started out innocently enough. Every time I hit my left shift key, it would insert an extra space before capping the letter of choice, never mind the random capitalizing of letters mid sentence that weren't proper nouns. Pretty annoying and I first checked for some mysterious virus, trojan, or worm that would cause it. Then as I eyed up Simon walking across my keyboard for the umpteenth time, I decided it must be cat hair lurking between the keys.
I grabbed my nearby can of compressed air, as every girl needs to keep that handy in her room, and decided to delicately remove the said keys in question. I popped off the shift, and cap lock key and sure enough I had a partial on Simon's DNA. Unfortunately when I was reassembling the keys, the worst thing that could happen did. The rubber stop that creates the pressure to use the shift key, sheared off. CRAP.
I was able to find it, and after several failed attempts, and wishing I had the fingers of a Chinese worker, I manipulated the piece back into place-for about 5 seconds. I've tried several more times over the last month to fix the keyboard, and the only thing I can liken it to now, is the smile a six year old. The keys are in but barely, off kilter, and if pressed too much, will pop out but for the gummy part that refuses to give the tooth over. Sure you can keep pushing the keys back in, but like a tongue that worries the near empty socket, inevitably the keys are coming out again.
It does make writing a chore.
On the other hand it also stops one from incessant blogging as you have to really feel strongly about something to go through this effort to write.
Over the last month, disgusted by Democrats and Republicans in general, I've given up on this country. God knows if I didn't have my Libertarian choice, and someone held a gun to my head and told me I had to vote for a Republican or Democrat I'd take the bullet instead. That's just how bad the choices are. Though as much as I detest McCain, loathe Obama -the guys is just a fucking idiot and I am dismayed by the dumbing down of Americans who believe any politician, my vote is coming down to whom the VP candidate will be. Because that is the person who is going to run the country.
I swear someone from McCains camp had to have read my earlier blog when I tossed out that Condi Rice would trump the Democrats bid to make history as opposed to saving history. My belief is that McCain will be president, and we aren't leaving the Middle East as 14 new military installations are being built over seas. We aren't doing that to have a vacation spot, we're in it for a very long time. At least the Republicans are honest enough to state we aren't leaving any time soon.
But enough about politics. What's going to happen is going to happen, and as I repeat to myself constantly, everything is cyclical.
For now, I'm off to quest for a fix for my laptop. I've had several ponderables, some brilliant, some just plain random, such as besides their last name being fun to say, just who the hell are the Kardashians, and why the hell would I want to keep up with them? Or lower myself to their level, based on the commercials. A million things are going on in this country, and the media chooses to focus on the gossip. News sources, have turned into tabloid giants, but they still can't get the weather right. You have to dig online to get any kind of perspective, but I really am tired of the advertisers controlling the media. 
Hey where did that come from?
surrogate (2008-04-28)
idiot? Wow.
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