Random Nemesis

Zoey reminds me of a 10 year old boy, sometimes.  I think he's stuck at that age mentally. Here, he goes after big brother, Percy.

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Yesterday morning,  I discovered our internet connection was down.  Brighthouse took all day long to fix it.  Out on the main road, they assembled various trucks and vans around a giant metal box, a box of which I hadn't ever noticed before, ever!  So it was an area-wide problem, that's what.   We couldn't connect again until 9 p.m last night.  Do you know what life is like without email?

HORRIBLE!!!

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More horrible things to behold:  I was straightening up the house earlier this week and had an old bag of pretzels that I was about to throw away.  I leaned over the dining room table, where my laptop lives so I could pick up some junk mail to take to the kitchen garbage.  Next thing I knew, the bag went POOF all over my keyboard, spilling a layer of pretzel salt and crumbs everywhere.
Let me just sayyyyyyy..... oh never mind.

I thought I got all the crumbs up with a special vacuum made for keyboards, but a grain of salt had wrecked havock on my left shift key.  So I thought, "it'll come out... no big deal."   

Until I went to enter the case sensitive password on some of my websites and the blasted Shift key was STUCK.   The password was denied, instantly!  I could be a hacker!
Turns out I had forgotten the answers to my "secret questions" as well.   
Don't you hate those secret questions?  Anyway, I finally got in.  But the shift key is still stuck, so I have to use the right shift till I get around to poking around in and around the keys.  How's that for a run around sentence.   ;)

Pretzel salt, the next great nemesis to internet security.

I hope you are having a splendid weekend and that your brother doesn't pester you, too.

Comments

[Janet]

ROFLMAO! Salt, it'll last forever ;-)

LOVE the first picture of the cat reaaaaaaaching, reaaaching :-)

[Nils]

Silly. Salt won't go away on its own. You need to dissolve it. And what dissolves salt? Why, water, of course.

So, here's what you do: pour about two cups of water on your keyboard, and swish it around so it gets in all the nooks and crannies. Problem solved.

You're welcome (g).

[pam]

I love the pictures of the cats; how sweet IS that?! That's when I like cats - when they're being cute. When they try to shred my couch it's very much less endearing...

Is there software I can purchase to keep my vulnerable puter safe from the dreaded *salt* virus? Or should I simply move these goldfish off my desk....?
LOL!

[kenju]

I havce no brothers, so I'm safe, but salt in the keyboard? Who knew!!??

[Nils]

Oh, and I had a similar situation with my keyboard: I was taking some old rye and Diet Pepsi out to "throw it away" (as you call it), and suddenly POOF, the glass tipped into my mouth and some of it trickled down my throat. But a little bit spilled, too, and it was only quick thinking and leaning down to suck every last drop off the keyboard that saved my system from serious damage.

[FC]

There's a right shift key?
Cool!
I learn so much here at VSea.

[Laura]

Pam, I'd ask Leanne about salt hacks. she's the only person who seems to be able to understand geek software. :)

Nils, have another drink, will ya LOL. And if you have to throw out the old rye, you're not drinking it fast enough....

(p.s. "throw it away?" What's wrong with that?)

[Nils]

Well, you claimed you had a bag of pretzels and were getting set to "throw it away" when it accidentally spilled on your keyboard. I just figured that was some sort of code for "snarf every last one down, and the crumbs that I miss jam up my shift key". (g) I was just saying I do the same with rye. Except I don't even pretend that I'm wasting any.

[InterstellarLass]

Cats crack me up.