It’s getting to be impossible to find a good keyboard. And by ‘good’, I don’t mean ‘indestructible’ or whatever. I mean ‘has a properly shaped Enter key, and a large backspace key, and isn’t overly large.’

I might also mean ‘doesn’t have all those extra stupid things that break easily’ and ‘has keys of the proper unrigid unsquishiness’, and maybe a few other things.

The good news is, most of these things can be found in keyboards that are under $20. Sometimes even in keyboards that aren’t more than $9.99, which is usually exactly what I want. Cheap, properly-keyed, reliable…the IBM keyboard you can usually find at CompUSA.

Unfortunately, CompUSA are closing.

I have a slightly flashier keyboard than normal right now — it’s identical to the one that suffered wire….

GODDAMNIT, hold on.

Okay. Maybe this time….

Where was I before my comma spazzed out again?

Oh, right. Identical keyboards. There was the one that decided it wasn’t anywhere near warm enough in the house, and tried to set itself on fire to solve the problem, and there was the one that I got for Gremlin. The one I got for Gremlin, he didn’t really like. Probably because it had this nasty habit of going off on its own and typing strings of commas.

That’s…kinda annoying. So, I had to do something about it.

I took it apart and swapped backs, but that didn’t fix it, partly because little plastic cuppy bits kept getting all out-of-line while I was trying to put it back together [I cannot function without a tab key]. Also partly because the comma problem was in that thin filmy plastic bit that makes they keyboard work.

Luckily, I inherited some sort of common-sense-fixy thing from my parents. It’s not that hard to fix a keyboard.

Ih. My backspace is a little slow, still. I wonder what I can do about that.