How to shoot yourself in the foot.

Imagine this. You have been working since 7:30am. It is now 4pm, your slowing down and everything is distracting you. Soon you are bored, you have been working just a little too long without a break but you are so close to finishing that there is no point in stopping now.

This is where you notice something in your drink, just a fleck of paint. You are bored, suddenly this becomes of the utmost importance. You try to quickly swipe it out with your finger but you are creating a cushion of water between the finger and object and all your are doing is pushing it around the glass. So, you decide to get inventive. You notice a second glass to your right. If you pour the drink from one glass to another you will have one glass with your drink in it and another glass with a fleck of paint.

Its a fantastic idea. Suddenly you are interested, your spacial awareness becomes that of two hands and two glasses. You pour. Its working! There is a strange trickling sound but you are tired, bored and your brain just doesn’t work out what it is. You are almost done when you realise that you were doing this just above your keyboard. You then realise that the strange tricking sound was in fact water running down the glass and onto your keyboard.

You dry your keyboard… this will be fine. An hour later you have lost your enter button. You cannot make a new line with pressing return on your key pad! In your mind though you are not concerned, you know its only one key and you can map the return key to your spare alt button. It will only take a day or so to adjust.

You have a snack, sit back down at your keyboard only to find that the loss of the enter key was only a minor glitch. Now when you type your text is interspersed with random 0′s, 2′s and full stops. The keyboard is dead.

I have an iMac… Apple, the company who think that a computers design is improved if they do not have an eject or sound control buttons. Apparently the only place where I can get a new keyboard with these magic keys is an apple store. £29.. then I need a £10 cheapo keyboard to keep me going to the weekend.

Boredom today cost me £49… if thats not shooting myself in the foot I don’t know what is.

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