Today starts with me tipping a large cup of coffee over my bedside table, to flood over books, electrical sockets, anything in the vicinity that is white/dry-clean only, etc. You get the picture. Please note that I do not own anything that is both white AND dry-clean only. I am not John Travolta. (Although, his would most definitely have been machine-washable. Therefore this comment is n/a.) Fortunately the sections of last weekend's Sunday Times are still hanging around, so I cast them over the approximate area to work their absorbent magic, because I cannot be hanging around to mop up the mess.
I've got other things to do. Like losing a key of my laptop, which goes flying under a banquette of seats in a cafe. This particular key has been troublesome since day one. Unfortunate that it is the 'a' key. Rather than the ~ or the ].
After some inelegant scuffling around, I find it, but it's not prepared to stay put anymore. So I replace it with the ~ key, which is hanging on. Just. As the 'a' used to. I suspect there is something wrong with the underpinnings. Where the ~ used to be, I now just have a naked rubbery nobble. No problem. I only use the ~ on high days and holidays - it will be a treat to touch the nobble on these occasions.
When the ~ gives out, I shall replace it. With [ and then ], followed by = and then z. This should buy me enough of a window of opportunity to spill a cup of coffee over the entire thing, and to be forced to go to PC World again (see Day 122). Then the circle will be complete.
So, I have a plan. Everything is fine. But why the 'a' key? Of all keys? WHY?
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