Let the stalking begin.

-snorts- no kidding. And not a helluva lotta places to hide in the Islands. Stupid mother.

You could hide better on the Big Island or Kawai. Ok, if you are white, maybe not so much. Now if you are an Island Girl it should be pretty easy.

Using my laptop for the first time since I got it back from HM on Weds.
The "p" key isn't working properly. I mean you can make it work, but you have to hit it harder than the other keys.

Yes it might have happened if I'd taken the laptop with me originally, but given the state the house was in, I suspect something has been spilled on it.

Grrrrrr.

And the screen is filthy.

Glad you got unacked. Being acked sucks. :D

Sundae, have you tried prying off the P key to make sure there's not a little crumb or something underneath it?

turn it over and tap it and let the crumbs fall out

Clean the screen. Wear gloves. Don't think about it too much.

Strongly not recommended especially on laptops. The mechanism by which the keycaps connect to the keyboard is very delicate and subject to injury by removal. Sure, you can muscle them off, but can you reinsert the metal pin into the plastic hinge of the keycap without pranging it?

I speak from first hand experience, both in mangling laptop keycaps and delivering the last rites to keyboards murdered by other well meaning amateurs.

It can be done, but it is a very delicate operation. And if the obstruction is a mechanical one, that is, something physical impeding the physical motion of the key, then it can likely be removed, dissolved, dislodged by other means (canned air, a little bit of solvent like water or alcohol, and much shaking and blowing and shaking and vigorous keypresses, rinse repeat). If there is some other problem, like a liquid having been spilled on the keyboard and then penetrated beneath the silicone membrane switch, impairing the electrical contacts, then removing the keycap is not going to help, and you still have the problem of getting the keycap to stay on when you try to replace it.

One idea if you're set on removing the keycap, google up a diagram of your exact keyboard and try to get an illustration of your keycap hinge mechanism. Then you can know what you're up against before you begin your demolition work. Or you can just work on exercising your right pinkie.

Just put the whole thing in the dishwasher. That will fix it.

Hand wash only. Hot soapy water, operate all the keys while wet, rinse thoroughly, dry times measured in days or weeks, though. I've done this successfully.

I've done the shaking and blowing thing, it seems to have helped.
Phew.

I've used a vacuum cleaner with the couch/brush attachment. Seems to help a lot.

It helps me a lot....gnnnhhhhh

;)

Merc, I'm about as white as they get... and I'll be on O'ahu... same island as Waikiki and Honolulu. So, big cities, but not a lot of room, yanno?

once decided to clean a laptop keyboard at a jobsite. using a shopvac. clickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclickclick as a stripe of keycapless keys appeared on the keyboard.

Oops.

I shut down the shopvac, opened it and retrieved the keys. They were plenty clean now. But I had to reattach them to the keyboard. It did not go easily or well.

energy quite low today.

Ever notice how since I got sober my mother has been going crazy-banana-nuts? well. I have.

You'll notice that in more and more people everyday. lol

I did notice, but I didn't really want to say.
Like about the red things turning up in my poop, when I'm pretty sure I haven't eaten them...

My tummy hurts, and I don't know why.

It started yesterday morning. Feels like cramps, high up at the top, not down low where you'd think of female-type cramps. Sort of like labor pains, for those of you who have been through that, but again, higher - and I promise, I'm not preggy. :) Pain is bad enough, when it hits, I have to stop what I'm doing and breathe through it.

Yesterday I felt all achy and yucky and slept on and off all day, but I had two exams today so I still had to study a bit. This morning I still felt awful but dragged myself to take those exams.

Tonight I've taken an ibuprofen and feel a little better, but my tummy still hurts - pains hit a little less often, but just as bad. I've made up my mind that I have to get on with my life regardless. I've got a paper due tomorrow, so I'm down in my office finishing it up. (and my printer isn't cooperating...bad ink cartridge...sheesh, can't get a break.)

What the heck? I'm not puking or anything else...just a tummy ache.

Moms aren't allowed to get sick. This bites.

Juniper, that sounds exactly like what killed Elvis.

But it was really clean when you finished, right?


Did you use the brush attachment? That keeps you from getting close enough for that to happen. At least with our vac.

Heroes. The back-and-forth present/future timeline thing is getting old. Innovative at first, but there's so much of it now there's practically no storyline.

And I hate it when good characters go bad, and the whole season has this theme, supposedly. Boo!

Yes, really, really, really clean, sitting in the sump of the industrial shop vac, the one used around the construction site. Super clean. D'oh!

No, I didn't use the brush attachment, or my brain. I don't think it would have made a difference, though. This thing could loosen a tatoo dar.

I vacuumed the dust out of a computer tower once. Last thing I ever did with that tower. It never worked again. D'oh!

Ah. You didn't say you were using a Binford Tools shopvac.

Time Warner Cable is having a spat with our local NBC affiliate. Of course it boils down to money, as it always does, but the end result is we haven't been able to get NBC for weeks. No one in the city can, unless they have DirecTV instead of cable. The only way we can get both Chuck and Heroes is to watch them online, and they don't get posted until a week after the broadcast.

wtf? NBC sends that signal out for free to anyone with an antenna. Why exactly should Time Warner pay one cent to the local affiliate for doing the service of passing it along?

chapped, bloody lips. owie.

KXAN (NBC) says that Time Warner has to pay all their cable channel providers for their signals, and they should start paying the networks too, and just pass the costs on to us like they do for the other channels. Time Warner isn't caving because the minute they do, all the other networks will follow suit. I don't know if DirecTV is paying them or what, but in the weeks leading up to the cutoff, the ads kept saying again and again that we should switch if we want to keep getting our signal.

I expect DirecTV is paying.

In general broadcast TV stations within the local area can choose either "must carry" or "transmission consent." If they do "must carry," they don't get any compensation from the satellite or cable co, BUT, the sat/cable/whatever is required to carry them. If they choose to negotiate for compensation in return for their signal, there's no guarantee that the two parties will come to terms, and the station can't go back to must-carry status for three years.

http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/cblbdcst.html

That's insane. The networks give the signal away for free. If any money changes hands, it should be the cable company charging the network affiliate for delivering their signal for them.

How much advertising revenue is the network affiliate losing because nobody is watching them? This is not how you should run a business. TV stations should do everything they can to have their programs viewed. Withholding them from the public is suicide for them.

I bet they get it sorted out before November sweeps, one way or the other.

Apparently, I had a sex change and didn't notice. I just got an award from the Navy (for my last job, before I moved to MD). I was all excited; a personally-signed excellence award from an Admiral doesn't come along too often. I was going to get it framed, and hang it in my office.

Presented to Mr. Firstname Lastname

:right: Guess I made a real impression on them.

Awwwwwwwwww.

When my Dad got his 21 Years engraved glass from his firm they got his initials wrong on it. I was outraged (although it was obviously just an admin error) and went on at him to give it back and get it done properly. He just didn't want to the fuss and Mum told me to drop it in the end. The outrage, not the glass.

I, like Juni, have a tummy ache but mine is from eating nothing but granola and chocolate Reisen's for a week straight.

:)


but, yeah, it hurts.

Like Demi Moore in GI Jane? "Suck my ... !"

PS, Congratulations on your award!

You have to squint just right and pitch about half your IQ, but if you can force yourself to think like an Admiral, the mistake comes out to be a compliment.

On the other hand, I bet if you informed his office, they'd get you a corrected one.

Pie, are you sure it was your finger you cut?

(and how is it, anyway?)

One of my colleagues has put an open box of materials in the entrance. It's to go back to the vendor because they goods received are faulty. Our ultimate boss has the paperwork.

Our boss is a hard but not effective worker. She has so much to do, she is often very hard to talk to - there will be a metaphorical queue at her desk all day. I know when she comes back she has to talk to one of the Project Managers about something happening tonight for example, and will certainly not be interested in dealing with sending the box back.

Therefore it will fall to me. I will have to hound her until she gives me the paperwork. I will have to deal with the company to collect the goods and get a refund (which we may not even be entitled to - I have no idea how long we've had these sitting around). And it will be to me everyone complains about the fact we've just had a huge clean of the workshop, and yet there is already a box sitting in the entrance way, like the monitors which were abandoned there for months while our IT Manager tried to work out a way to get them recycled that didn't cost us money.

So, thanks TB. Thanks for effectively giving me a task which will be arduous and frustrating without even ackniwledging that you were giving it to me. It's not my job to return items you have decided are below par, it might not technically be yours either, but it's not mine.

Grrrrrr.

:lol:
Yep, just the finger. It's mostly healed, but I will have a scar. Oh well, there goes that hand-modeling career I was contemplating... The worst part of it was that the cut bisected my writing callus. Holding a pen (or chopsticks, fork, or knife) was quite painful till the last day or two.

My old cube-mate said he will ask the Navy to re-do it. He's got a wall of awards himself and they're always misspelling his surname, so he's used to one or more go-rounds before they get it right. Makes you wonder about the Navy. :eyebrow:

It's hard to see with all the swinging dicks around.

We discovered by accident this afternoon that our upstairs neighbor (who is out-of-town until 11/1) did not clean her refrigerator out before leaving two weeks ago...and had her electricity turned off while she's gone. It started smelling yesterday. The landlord is coming over tonight to clean the fridge out.

So far I want TRICKY angels with dirty faces. When do you move?

Oh srry bout the fridge.:D

You know why they only issue powdered soap on the ships don't you?

Tentative moving date is 2nd week of November. We have to be out by Thanksgiving weekend.

See if there is other stuff that you would like that would make it worth both our whiles to ship stuff out to NM. :)

Landlord came over and did a bang-up job...cleaned out and disinfected the fridge...he fucking rules!

Well it's worth it for me. I can't find a copy at the record stores down here and I am really missing it after it was taken. Special order will be a lot more expensive. I'll look for more stuff and pm you. I'll just send cash and pay for the shipping. Maybe a bonus for the favor. You can go regular USPS, as I don't mind. Fedex has been charging too much lately.

Two black guys fighting outside my hotel room. I think the issue is citizenry... one guy was born here, the other guy immigrated (legally) from West Africa. -groan-

I have to take my 2005 car in again because the Check Engine light comes on and it feels like it's suffocating. Then it spontaneously heals, but it's staying sicker longer. I hope it's a warranty repair.

Bloody slow bloody eBay bloody sellers
Oh you've got to pay them within 3 days or get a neagtive, oh yes
But they don't have to post out until they feel like it, oh no

So - no practising my Halloween makeup tonight
No watching House of 1000 corpses
No flitting about with my Halloween wig on

Sigh
I understand about getting payment quickly, and I don't resent that
But when we sold items in the shop, we always posted on the same day payment cleared
Okay, we were a business, but you can easily set the time you want your auction to expire - if you know you only get to the Post Office on Mondays and Wednesdays, why not have your auctions finish on Sundays and Tuesday?

Or better yet, write on the description what days you post and what your usual turn around time is. Otherwise people like me get excited for days on end every time the post comes, and then horribly depressed afterwards. I swear, it's like being a kid again.

Ok. I am annoyed.

This person I don't know that recogizes me from the coffee shop that I used to regular, but now work at 2 days a week, has annoyed me.

I am working (busy) and he wants to talk about why I would work there now. When he saw me he took me for a "secretary or something" and "why I am not doing that". I say, well this job is actually quite fun and I do like it. I say, I was actually doing administration work, and not a secretary. (though I have been before)

He says, oh, same thing...

Why so shitty? I don't even recognize this asshole but he needs an explanation as to why I would work in a coffee shop. And if I was a secratary as were his projections, what would be the big deal if I chose to work in a coffee shop?

I am having fun with my new 2 day a week job. I am surprised that I was so hesitant. But now John Q. Ass gets to question my work history. That bothers me.

He pressed me again after the first little conversation with even more random questioning about what would make me decide to work there, and my new boss answered for me since he was on, "ignore".

Why do people that I do not know watch what I do and how I seem, and demand explanations when it does not fit with their expectations or presumptions? Why get freaked out about someone you don't know working in a coffee shop? And why be shitty about it? Do I need to give strangers my work history now, and for what? To serve a damned cup of coffee?!?

Oh I don't want you to make me any coffee, I thought you were supposed to be checking the voicemail messages or typing..or something. Forget it.

Sorry Cic What an ass. Makes me look "ok" by comparison.

Oh, I know what you mean Cic.

Tell 'em you had a damn lobotomy and are prone to extreme violence. In what has been deemed a medical miracle, doctors found you were much more calm when constantly surrounded by the sweet yet acrid smell of coffee. You are mandated to work there by the state, though you have to be closely monitored as you have been known to suddenly start swinging a knife and throwing hot coffee, usually provoked by some dumbass asking personal questions.

"Bite me" is always a good response too, in my experience. ;)

Dude is probably starved for human contact and just goes to the coffee shop for an excuse to talk to people who have to interact with him because it's their job.

I stuck some leftovers in the oven to reheat, and then got so distracted by other crap that just minutes later I made and ate an entirely different lunch for myself. Just as I was rinsing my plate, the oven timer started beeping to let me know what an idiot I am.

I dont know how many times I have put a cup of coffee in the mircowave to re-heat and totally forgotten about it.

My microwave actually has a neat feature to prevent that--once it's cooked something, it will beep periodically until the door is opened. You can't leave something in there unless you open the door and then shut the food back inside again without turning it on for more cooking time.


...Which, sadly, I have done.

Because your hot. I'm just saying.....:)

and you haven't learned to completely shut that beep out of your concsiousness? wow. That's the best/worst skill i've acquired since becoming a mom. I can shut any sound out without effort -and sadly - often without being aware I am ignoring anything. kids screaming? no longer hear it. Which is usually good, but what if, one day, they really are hurt?