Friday, 06 November 2009

• Problem solved...for now anyway!

  Well, the keyboard is not fixed. But Dan talked to one of our MAF employees who seems to have connections with everyone, and she bought us a keyboard that plugs into the USB port. (there were LOTS of old but workable keyboards laying around at MAF but they were all for desktop computers and not able to plug into our laptop.)
  
  So I am typing on a new keyboard. It's pretty cheap quality and cost us $20 but it does the job! Whew!
  
  Dan looked up some stuff online about spilling water on laptops, and I think the problem wasn't the water spill itself, but that I pressed on some keys when i was trying to sop up the water. I guess I should have just let it dry by itself rather than trying to dry it off, because evidently if you press on the keyboard when it is still wet, you can do permanent damage... oh well! I'm still hopeful that it may start working again in a few days but if it doesn't, at least we have this cheap-o external thing to use! 
  
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