The FedEx delivery person must think we’re a bunch of freaks. When he rang the doorbell our little family converged on the poor man, over-eager, eyes wide and glistening in anticipation. After depositing the goods he backed away slowly…as we tore into our packages like a pack of wild animals in for the kill. Now the lot of us are crowded into the computer room, playing with our new toys. The husband with his replacement monitor. The little man with the big monitor box. And me, with my shiny new keyboard. It’s just so…very…clean. The letters on the keys are completely legible (which should help the little man, in a big way). And when I type the lefthand Ctrl key actually works, and, get this, the M and I keys remain attached to the keyboard instead of popping off when I press down on them. How novel. There are two minor differences I will have to adjust to, though. The grouping of Home/Page Up/End keys, et al, are now in columns of 2×3 rather than 3×2, and the arrow keys are laid out differently. But these are things I can live with. And get used to, just in time for NaNoWriMo.
Addendum: It’s only fun until someone gets hurt. The little man seems to have poked himself in or around the eye with one of the box flap corners. Luckily his eye seems all right, with just a bit of a scratch near it. And the husband helped turn that frown upside down with a demonstration of his new monitor’s capabilities…with a showing of Little Nemo.
