Snowy morning
fingers numb
large hot coffee
on the run
Loose lid pops
liquid flows
keyboard fizzles
so it goes
Fortunately my many "to do" lists soaked up the main pool of coffee, which seems to have saved the cpu and disk.
There are advantages to a messy desk.
I think I will use this as a reason to reinvent myself, since I no longer know what "to do".
And I'm locked out of my desktop until I get a new keyboard.
Bonus.
Wouldn't ya know it.
Campus computer store is closed for a week for stock taking.
Bastards.
And for some ineffable reason Apple has not put an Apple Store in town...
Anyone have a spare I can borrow for 20 mins?
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might be fun to write up a proposal that way...
cause I couldn't login to turn anything else on without a working keyboard...
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that's what my better half said
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