Sticky Space Bars

I think I'd be more apt to write here and spend less of my work downtime reading a book and checking my email if I had a better keyboard. The standard office-issue keypad in these parts is a black Dell model. And it's not a quiet key, so the rap-tap-tap of the keys is a bit louder than I'd prefer, especially in this eerily quiet office space. If I get on a typing tear and I'm going at full-steam, I get a little paranoid that those around me will catch on and realize how little I have to do during the day.

But, truth be told, this keybpard is just bad. Plain and simple. My biggest beef is the space bar; it sticks something terrible, and it drives me NUTS. Every sentence I type has at least two words combined, and then I have to go back and space them out. I talked to IT, and they had me use an air blower to dislodge tiny particles that could be deep down in the keyboard causing the problems, but it didn't help (though, admittedly, there was a lot of junk doen there).

I guess my IBM laptop has spoiled me. At this point, I'll take just about any laptop keyboard over a standard desktop board. After 7 years of laptop typing on a Fujitsu and an IBM, going back to the old keyboard feels clunky and laborious. When I interned at the newspaper in Cyprus, I brought my laptop into work and spurned the regular old computer they assigned me. I still have no idea how I was able to hook my laptop up to their network, but I fiddled around with it for about 15 minutes, and somehow I hooked it up.

So for now I'm stunk with this old clunker, but I'm going to take some action soon.