Sunday, January 11, 2004
Mouse Complaint Dept.
Yesterday was one of those annoying days where nothing goes quite the way you want it to.
Like for instance, my mouse. (Logitech, not live.) It had been acting weird for a couple weeks and getting steadily worse. I'd thought the light-up kind didn't HAVE to be cleaned like the old ball kind, but I took it apart anyway, and sure enough, it was cloggy with crud and fuzz and cat hair.
Unfortunately, once I got it apart I was unable to make it go back together. Which would be annoying even on an otherwise fab day, because I am not accustomed to being unable to assemble something that unfortunate wage slave factory workers seem very capable of whipping out by the thousand.
The funny part was that the bottom half still worked fine. If you concentrated hard on clicking a tiny little white bar with your fingernail. No more wheel action sans wheel, logically enough. So when I started getting a cramp in my hand, I went to bed.
Upon arising all refreshed and stuff, I searched around until I found my spare, which I got basically free from Amazon after the rebate. (Making it even more ridiculous that I spent an hour of my time the day before on the old one! That I of course kept all the pieces of because I'm anal like that.) After moving a three foot high stack of books and videos to be listed for sale off my computer case, I plugged in the new mouse, and all was again well in Susan's Computer World.
Like for instance, my mouse. (Logitech, not live.) It had been acting weird for a couple weeks and getting steadily worse. I'd thought the light-up kind didn't HAVE to be cleaned like the old ball kind, but I took it apart anyway, and sure enough, it was cloggy with crud and fuzz and cat hair.
Unfortunately, once I got it apart I was unable to make it go back together. Which would be annoying even on an otherwise fab day, because I am not accustomed to being unable to assemble something that unfortunate wage slave factory workers seem very capable of whipping out by the thousand.
The funny part was that the bottom half still worked fine. If you concentrated hard on clicking a tiny little white bar with your fingernail. No more wheel action sans wheel, logically enough. So when I started getting a cramp in my hand, I went to bed.
Upon arising all refreshed and stuff, I searched around until I found my spare, which I got basically free from Amazon after the rebate. (Making it even more ridiculous that I spent an hour of my time the day before on the old one! That I of course kept all the pieces of because I'm anal like that.) After moving a three foot high stack of books and videos to be listed for sale off my computer case, I plugged in the new mouse, and all was again well in Susan's Computer World.
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