December 20, 2007
Dead Diary,
Today I have some good news and some bad news for you. First, the good news.
You may remember the fact that my old laptop died and I had to rescue you along with my NaNo Novel off of it. Well, my brand new laptop came today right after I finished presiding over the funeral for my old laptop. It was perfect timing, as my nerd instincts overpowered my grief, thus allowing me to be able to set up my new laptop with no emotional problems. And you should've seen me, oh Diary, rip open that package like a little kid opens up his Christmas gifts. I had that laptop up and running in no time. It was great. But then the bad news hit in.
No, oh Diary, I am not referring to the step where Windows Vista installs itself. I seemed to have yet set myself up for another very witty pun from you, my friend. I cannot say from personal experience whether or not Windows Vista is good or not because I haven't had much experience with it.
You see, when I rebooted my computer for what was hopefully the final time in the setup of the computer, something very strange happened to your humble narrator. All of the keys came to life and started talking to each other. Some started talking and hanging out like old friends, and some started fighting like old enemies. But one things was clear. I wasn't going to be able to use the keyboard in this state.
Once again, I find myself at the butt of yet another clever pun authored by you, oh Diary. However, I still don't plan on moving to Delaware, nor any other state to try to get my keyboard to work.
Seeing that I needed a keyboard to do anything on the computer, I almost went to see if I could download an on-screen keyboard to allow me to use the laptop while I was still trying to fix the keyboard. However, I realized that this was fruitless as I couldn't google "on screen keyboard" without using the keyboard. That sucked. So I ran downstairs, where I am typing you now.
What do I plan to do? I'm not sure, but I do know that before I ran downstairs, I saw a whole bunch of keys circle around the F12 Key, shattering it to bits. I don't know when I'll ever find a use for F12 except maybe as a boss key, but I still worry, because I might lose more important keys like F8 (the one that allows my laptop to connect to a projector), Page Up (the one that increases volume) and the Function key (the one that makes all the keys do something special) and I just can't have that.
I have an idea that I think might work. They know better than I who is likely to be instigating the death of other keys and who isn't, so I'll let them decide. mob justice style. Thanks Diary! Talking to you really inspires me!
----- Your Humble Narrator
Iammars
"Rolefishing is fishing for someones role. It's called fishing because it requires subtlety. When you grab a shotgun and start firing into the water, thats not fishing." - IH