My num lock doesn’t work
June 01, 2007
I, have the honor of being Dumbass #2 a day after the whole thing was introduced. I fear what’s to come.
Coming home from a very atypical Friday at work followed by some Tap, I came home and turned on my computer. Trying to type something resulted in something weird… my keyboard wasn’t working. I restarted my computer. Hmm… still not working. I uninstall the keyboard, unplug it, blow on the connection to clear out any dust or gunk, and plug it back in and install it. Hmm, still not working.
Wait! Some keys are working. Weird. Roughly half of the keys worked. The numbers worked but the number pad did not. The function keys worked. Scroll lock and Caps lock worked, but not Num lock. Hmm, most of the letters worked but not all. Some careful experimenting showed that most of the lower right side of the keyboard did not work.
I thought maybe a rather clever but annoying virus had somehow made its way into my fairly new computer and wireless network. It was weird but it was working fine this morning…
… oh yeah.
Basically right before I left the house at 6:40am this morning, I knocked half a glass of water that spilled into… the lower right side of my keyboard. I had only hastily tried to shake out the water.
Time to get a new, waterproof keyboard.
