my rotten keyboard

I've given up hope on wireless peripherals. In other words, I hate my Microsoft Wireless Desktop. Sure it was fun at first, we had some good times, my cats had to give up chewing the cords which was good for them too, but I suppose all good things must come to an end.

I've gotten fed up with the intermittent response. New batteries make no difference, nor does resetting the connection. I switched to my brother's mouse which I've got temporarily while I reformat his computer. a few days later I popped in his keyboard too. I decided the wires aren't that much trouble and in fact are a wonderful exchange for the usability!!!

So I headed over to Staples to see what I could find. I was there anyway looking for a firesafe to prevent any further thefts from my babysitters /sigh/ (but that's another story).

I figured since I'm having all this wrist pain lately maybe the thing to do is to look at an ergonomic keyboard. the only one on the shelf was a Microsoft, so when Matt in hardware asked if he could help me find something I laid it out plain and clear: have you got an ergonomic keyboard made by anyone else?

Logitech didn't seem to show anything on their website but lo and behold if Belkin doens't make one. I have no idea who Belkin is - makes me think of Graymalkin from macbeth - but $40 and 7-10 days later (or sooner) I'll be sitting pretty with my new keyboard, or so I hope.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing with the wireless piece of frustration I have sitting on the floor in the playroom/office but maybe it will make a nice toy for the kids. I was thinking of duct taping some wires to it so the cats can have something fun to play with.

what an adventure.