Keyboarding 101
Okay, so I got my first crash course in laptop assembly today. No, it was not fun and it was not planned!
Forgive me, but this post is brought to you by a newly reassembled keyboard that has yet to have all its kinks ironed out of it just yet!
It all started with a trip to the bathroom. That seems innocent enough, now doesn't it?
Silly me. In some vain attempt at keeping my sons out of their new-found sandbox (we like to call it a fireplace,) I had decided to try working in the living room today.
Bregon had managed to spend most of yesterday in the living room with the kids and he was on the computer for most of the day as well.
I figured that it would be safe since he did okay. Of course, being Mommie, everything is different for me.
I innocently set up the laptop at the homework table in the living room.
I decided to try checking my mail and the forum as a test-run to see how successful I was going to be before logging into the work site.
Right off the bat, Kaiden was all over me. He brought me a car as a peace offering, but was immediately trying to help me type.
I pryed him off of me somehow, and went back to trying to read the paper.
This only sent him into a different mode. The one that requires that a kid function in the "If they won't acknowledge me, then I shall just force them to notice me" mode.
I looked up to find that he had climbed up onto a table, and was car watching from the window.
He was also gnawing on the window sill part where the locks are. Yummy, I hope there wasn't anything gross on it, but I will never know now!
I managed to get him off of the table, out of the window, and me back to my laptop.
Now, I had Kian crawling underneath me to try and use the cord as a telephone of sorts.
I could live with that, but now I had to go to the bathroom. I sat them all in a row on the sofa, and thought that they were engaged fully in watching their favorite television show.
My thinking is way off today, as you have probably noticed by this point! I did close up the computer, thinking that would be enough deterrent should someones interest be peaked.
I was so very wrong. By the time I had returned from the potty, I was met with a horrifying site.
Both of the baby boys were squatting on top of the homework table.
There was a pile of keys and pieces at their feet, and they were busily trying to systematically pry off the rest of the keys from the keyboard.
I felt seriously stupid as I plucked them both from the mess and set them on the floor safely.
When Bregon got home, he helped me assemble all of the spare parts and sort them out.
I then set out to conquer learning how to assemble a keyboard. It's a lot easier that one would think, actually.
There was just one, tiny, little problem. The plastic piece that holds the "ENTER" key in place was broken into two pieces.
There just isn't any other key the same size with the same sort of piece to replace it with, either.
I am currently awaiting the results of my handiwork with super glue. I don't have much hope for it, though.
The piece is awfully small, and awfully bent. I have even already found and ordered a new keyboard as a replacement.
I suppose it's over due for a new keyboard, anyways. I do not know what the world would be like without Ebay!
Thankfully the part is only about $30 after shipping, and it popped right up when I searched it, so I am hopeful.
So, today I have learned my lesson well. Maybe there is nothing really wrong with letting the baby boys play in the fireplace with their cars.
Maybe it is better to keep my work in the bedroom instead of trying to multi-task and watch the babies closer while I try to work.
They do have to learn to play by themselves, which they already really do well.
I suppose they will continue to be fine if I revert back to my usual practice of working in the bedroom.
And most of all, I have learned how to reassemble a keyboard. It didn't take a genius, but it would have helped if the babies had disassembled it a bit more carefully!
Forgive me, but this post is brought to you by a newly reassembled keyboard that has yet to have all its kinks ironed out of it just yet!
It all started with a trip to the bathroom. That seems innocent enough, now doesn't it?
Silly me. In some vain attempt at keeping my sons out of their new-found sandbox (we like to call it a fireplace,) I had decided to try working in the living room today.
Bregon had managed to spend most of yesterday in the living room with the kids and he was on the computer for most of the day as well.
I figured that it would be safe since he did okay. Of course, being Mommie, everything is different for me.
I innocently set up the laptop at the homework table in the living room.
I decided to try checking my mail and the forum as a test-run to see how successful I was going to be before logging into the work site.
Right off the bat, Kaiden was all over me. He brought me a car as a peace offering, but was immediately trying to help me type.
I pryed him off of me somehow, and went back to trying to read the paper.
This only sent him into a different mode. The one that requires that a kid function in the "If they won't acknowledge me, then I shall just force them to notice me" mode.
I looked up to find that he had climbed up onto a table, and was car watching from the window.
He was also gnawing on the window sill part where the locks are. Yummy, I hope there wasn't anything gross on it, but I will never know now!
I managed to get him off of the table, out of the window, and me back to my laptop.
Now, I had Kian crawling underneath me to try and use the cord as a telephone of sorts.
I could live with that, but now I had to go to the bathroom. I sat them all in a row on the sofa, and thought that they were engaged fully in watching their favorite television show.
My thinking is way off today, as you have probably noticed by this point! I did close up the computer, thinking that would be enough deterrent should someones interest be peaked.
I was so very wrong. By the time I had returned from the potty, I was met with a horrifying site.
Both of the baby boys were squatting on top of the homework table.
There was a pile of keys and pieces at their feet, and they were busily trying to systematically pry off the rest of the keys from the keyboard.
I felt seriously stupid as I plucked them both from the mess and set them on the floor safely.
When Bregon got home, he helped me assemble all of the spare parts and sort them out.
I then set out to conquer learning how to assemble a keyboard. It's a lot easier that one would think, actually.
There was just one, tiny, little problem. The plastic piece that holds the "ENTER" key in place was broken into two pieces.
There just isn't any other key the same size with the same sort of piece to replace it with, either.
I am currently awaiting the results of my handiwork with super glue. I don't have much hope for it, though.
The piece is awfully small, and awfully bent. I have even already found and ordered a new keyboard as a replacement.
I suppose it's over due for a new keyboard, anyways. I do not know what the world would be like without Ebay!
Thankfully the part is only about $30 after shipping, and it popped right up when I searched it, so I am hopeful.
So, today I have learned my lesson well. Maybe there is nothing really wrong with letting the baby boys play in the fireplace with their cars.
Maybe it is better to keep my work in the bedroom instead of trying to multi-task and watch the babies closer while I try to work.
They do have to learn to play by themselves, which they already really do well.
I suppose they will continue to be fine if I revert back to my usual practice of working in the bedroom.
And most of all, I have learned how to reassemble a keyboard. It didn't take a genius, but it would have helped if the babies had disassembled it a bit more carefully!
posted by Mimi Rankin Webb at 3:54 PM
Mimi is the mother of four: a 12 1/2-year-old boy and 1-year-old triplets (two boys and one girl). She is very happily busy taking care of everyone, whether it's the triplets' multiple doctor appointments, attempting a shopping excursion or volunteering to plan her son's school renaissance festival.
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