It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. This post was supposed to have a photo of my keyboard on it but my keyboard is a mess and I guess I can't just put it in the dishwasher like I do with most everything else . . except the cat and the dog.
The letters in the graphics represent the letters that are missing from my keyboard. The keys are still there but they don't have letters on them any more because I wore them off writing this blog. It doesn't matter because I don't look at the keyboard when I type. I don't need to look at the screen either and would rather not but it is right in front of me.
I used to write posts when this blog reached certain mile stones like when I had one hundred posts and then when it was a year old, and then when I hit 1000 posts, and when I hit the two year mark. I skipped year three and post number 1500 was written a few weeks back. Wearing the letters off of a keyboard is as good of a milestone as any.
People start blogs every day and there are like a zillion of them but most people don't stick with it very long, Certainly not long enough to wear the letters off of a keyboard. They get all discouraged because no one reads the blog. When I started I used to refer to my readers as "both of my readers". When more people started reading it that really bothered me. It was much easier to write when I knew that no one was actually reading it. I think that is when I stated using more photos. Now I tell myself that they are just looking at the pictures and that takes the stress out of writing.
Letters are not really needed on keyboards so I think I will hang onto mine for a while and maybe I can figure out how to get all of the strawberry jam off of the "ift" key so that it isn't so sticky and get the sesame seeds out of the number pad. They really should make keyboards that are dishwasher safe. I suppose if they get put in the dishwasher the letters get washed off of the keys.
Have a great weekend and thanks for stopping by.
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Thanks for a fun read, Teresa. I’ve lost the ‘C’ on my keyboard. Guess I need to type more to catch up to you. I have to say that you had me going for at least 10 seconds when you taked about wiping the jam off of the “ift” key. I confess that I actually had to LOOK at my keyboard to see what you were talking about. In my brain, I guess I still remember my old, old typewriter and its Shift key was a CAP key…
Anyway, I emailed you a few weeks ago and told you that you just might have been enough of an inspiration for me to finally start my posts. Well, you were and I have. And I know darn well nobody but my family is reading them and you’re right, that makes it easier as I try to get used to things. I thoroughly enjoy reading your posts and I’m hoping that I can get mine down to a daily science and can keep finding fun things to write about, as you do. Thanks again for the inspiration!
Bob
I think this was a nice break in the afternoon on a hot Friday in Dallas to read this post. It actually made me feel inspired to start blogging more and hopefully some of my keys will fall off too! Happy Friday!
Actually, the recommended way to clean a keyboard is the dishwasher, but you have to let it dry out for a couple of days. Of course, that won’t work if the keyboard is built into a laptop.
lol I can really relate to this one! The following letters are worn off of my laptop keyboard: e, r, o, a, s, d, h, l, c, v, n, m and yet more are partially worn away. Do you suppose they will ever come up with entire laptops that are dishwasher safe? ( :
What a fun post! I haven’t worn off letters yet but have had keys actually pop off the keyboard. Hmmmm, too aggressive in my blogging?
NPR actually ran a story in summer ’07 that tracked a reporter who stuck her keyboard in the dishwasher. It came out squeaky clean and – after a week or two of drying time – just as good as new. You can listen to the original broadcast at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11029793 ; or just google ‘put keyboard in dishwasher’