I Hate Keyboards
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Notice a deterioration of the grammatical quality of some of my latest posts?
Well, hopefully it hasn’t been that bad, but recently, I have been skipping keys and not capitalizing letters and silly mistakes like that. Where do I place this blame? Whose fault is it that I can’t type as well as before?
It’s the keyboard, obviously.
I have this new laptop, and thus a new laptop keyboard built into the thing. The keys are smaller than the traditional keyboard that I’m used to using. I like plenty of space to spread out my hands, and I want the individual keys to have some more thickness to them. Those styles of keyboards make it hectic for transporting, which is what laptops are great for. But my typing skills are going downhill.
Besides missing the right keys ever now and then, sometimes it goes all wacky on me while I’m typing and suddenly, instead of typing on the end of my sentence, it automatically teleports my curser and I’m typing in the middle of my paragraph! I have absolutely no idea why it does this, as I can’t connect what key I’m using at the time that makes it go wacky. I think it may have to do with the number pad, which is now embedded in the right side of the keys in the alphabet. (The numbers pad is the small keyboard with the numbers and a few select options that is so good for accountants. To prevent laptop keyboards from being too wide, they fuse that in with the letter keys too. Of course, there’s still the line of numbers above the alphabet that I’ve always used, but still…) Anyway, I’m not sure what causes the problem (or even if I’ve adequately described it here) but it’s bugging me.
I hope to get another keyboard to hook up to my laptop when it’s at my desk in my room. Until then, my grammar may be a bit off here and there… so consider this a warning. (And this blog doesn’t count… I wrote it in Word and spellchecked it and everything… so the obviously wrong things have been taken care of. Other silly mistakes are my own fault, but have probably always been apparent, so there…)
Anyway, I have nothing better to blog about. I haven’t updated my stories because (among annoying keyboards) I have somewhat of a writers block for everything and am just getting by playing games and watching movies and reading other people’s work.
Bye now.
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