Marieke is going technical. Ends up with an abused 4 and a missing delete button.

I know. I am the master of confusing titles. What can I say? It’s a gift. From the alien-overlords who send me down here to fix computers, eat grapes and spice up your sorry-ass lives.

Fix computers, you say? Well, yeah, that is totally like my new thing. But I thought you were a tech noob with some unreliable nerves and no feeling for equipment, you say? Well, yeah, that’s true but I just worked around those flaws. And that worked out? Øhm, partly...

You see, my computer is lovely and everything, but she is also getting old. She gathers dust, makes low humming noises and sometimes just likes to go to sleep. Or fuck up the sound when I TRY TO WATCH GLEE DAMMIT! I realized that I had to do something, but the thought of paying some professional to fix my Acer made my poor savings account shiver, so I decided to google my way to the skills, and fix her myself. I unscrewed the bottom, with some help from roommate and cleaned the fan. Everything was okay. I got the bottom of my computer back on, and it’s been there ever since, so that part of my plan went wonderful. But then I did something I never should have done. I popped the keys out of the keyboard. It was going fine until I came do the delete key, popped it out, and realized that something was wrong. No, no smoke, but a superscary breaking noise. The little stupid thing under the key, which I later found out is ESSENTIAL to type, had snapped. I continued, cleaned under the keys, man, it was dirty, and popped most for them back on. Except two.

So now I have a keyboard with two gaping holes in it. It looks horrible. Like teeth before braces. I still have number 4 but the delete key is gone. I think the vacuum cleaner may have inhaled it. At first i thought that it would not be such a big deal, who uses 4 and the delete button? Well, I DO. And now I have to press little annoying rubber thingies, which is just wrong. I’m thinking about super-gluing 4 back on, but I’ll think that through first and maybe I should check it computers can stand glue. Probably not. -.-

MORAL OF THE STORY:

Don’t take the keys out off your laptop. You will destroy something tiny but important and then you will regret it forever and ever. Let those little guys sit and gather dust. Dust is good. You can roll balls of it and flick them at your roommate.