Does everyone here have as much trouble with keeping a keyboard as I do?

A few weeks ago I spilled yet another "beverage"

Cindy

Saran Wrap?

G-Mom

My keyboard gets clogged with ash. and when l spill the wine it goes all gooey
Actually l blame you

Doreen

Well, I promise to be totally SERIOUS from now on...


...NOT! ! ! ! !




Cindy

lmpossible

a computer buddy of ours actually said if you spill stuff into the keyboard, you can wash keyboards off with a sprayhose, allow them to dry and plug them in...they are good to go..now, i have never actually tried this, the 13 bucks for a new one doesn't seem like much, but then again i don't have a big ol parrot pickin my keys off either! lol.

You can also pop the keys out and clean with a q-tip or something, should you be so inclined. Also, I know they make plastic keyboard covers for businesses. You might notice them sometimes at various retail stores. Bet you could buy them at Staples or something, tho I've never actually checked.
My problem is, I rub the letters off mine, then I can't type. I buy a new keyboard when I get sick of looking at all my magic-markered-in letters.

Wish I would have know that! I just throw 'em in the garbage. I can usually pop the keys back on IF I can get them away from Lola. She tends to go a little balistic when she has something and I try to take it away from her. I lost two fingers trying to get one of my paint brushes away from her yesterday! She finally got REAL mad and just snapped it in half and laughed at me!

We fight and argue all the time! She started pulling my hair the other day and laughing about it, so I said "Watch it!" Then she said "YOU watch it!"


Cindy

uh cindy? i am on the same keyboard i have been on for the last six years ?

NO WAY! ! !

...maybe I'm just tooooo into "multi-tasking"....

Hey Cindy,
I have an awesome idea
Memorize all the keys and where they'd be...

Then just pop off all the keys,
give all the buttons to Lola to play with
(she'll have some fun with some new toys for a while) and just type with the little thingies where the tabs would go....

Then when you spill anything into it,
it's so easy clean up, just grab the q~tip and swab away...or get the seeds out without the tweezers or the headache!
Heck, maybe even keep a straw by the keyboard,
and you can s*ck the wine right out of the bottom of the pad!!!

Now you might have to build up some callus's
Where those thingies would poke you, but
hey, beats the sh*t outta throwin' them darn things away!!!

JUST KIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDING!!!

Weezie

My keyboard is almost 5 years old.......When I have drinks up here they are always in a bottle so I don't spill stuff--which is a huge surprise because I'm one of the clumsiest people in the world......being 5"10" doesn't make me the most graceful person.... :p Ever day I'm screaming OUCH, and Mark will laugh and yell what did you do to yourself now? So my keyboard is very lucky that it's in good shape.........okay, I'm knocking on wood now....lol

I just took my mouse apart not that long ago because it stopped working and you should've seen all the gunk in there.... It isn't one of those things I think about doing until it won't work.....it was really gross.... :rolleyes:

Now THAT'S a good idea! I've spilled everything you can think of on it and it still works. Just pick that bad boy up and rub it on my t-shirt and GOOD TO GO!!!

A few months ago my mouse stopped working and I took it back to the place I'm getting my computer from(it is still under warranty)...WELL...the sales guy proceeded to open it(in front of a bunch of customers)and SHOW ME all the gunk! I was sooooo embarrassed I never thought about having to clean it out

That's okay Karen........I've had my printer for over a year now and a while back it started printing funny......I was telling my friend and she said, did you clean it? I said, what do you mean clean it????? I had no idea at all that you had to clean your printer!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's the stuff that's written in the back of the printer manual in small print.......

I just figured you bought new cartridges when they ran out and that's it.....Needless to say that made me feel pretty stupid.....

Been there, DONE that!

Huh?

G-Mom

People get on here in the mornings and read this stuff
and just go...

I know I do!!!



G-Mom

Clean the nozzles on the printer.......lol There is a maintainence part in my printer software that does it......heck if I knew about it.....had to run it about 5 times to get my printer straightened out.

You know what's gross.....out of curiousity I just turned my keyboard over and tapped it on the desk.......tons of stuff fell out of it.....

Well, did it crawl away after it fell out?

Actually there is enough tobacco on my desk from the inner depths of my keyboard for me to roll up a cig out of it........

Next time I run out of cigs I'll just come up here and make myself one from the keyboard remnants.... :p

I've BEEN there!

you folks are just toooooooo funny!!

i am always "tapping out" my keyboard at home and at work... at home it is cat & dog hair, food, unknown gribblies, and Lord knows what else...

at work, it is cookie crumbs, staples, paper clips, unknown gribblies, and Lord knows what else...

hmmm.... seems to be a lot of "unknown gribblies, and Lord knows what else... " in keyboards...

I don't know how many YEARS old it is.. but I'm sure it's really nasty. Just look at the top of it!





Steve has a brand new keyboard. I think it was only a month or so new.. and a kitten knocked over a cuppa coffee all over it! He took it completely apart, and washed it.. hung it up to dry, and had a HELL of a time putting it all back together.. but he did it, and it's still working.

Meg

VERY interesting, Meg!
I tried to zoom in to figure out what that "ointment" was for!

You guys ARE TOO FUNNY!!!

I had to pipe in *of course*..........
If I were to take a picture of mine,
you'd ALLLLLLLLL be falling off your chairs

compared to Meg's.
Cindy, would run out of room to type words in for the "things" around my computer/monitor/keyboard. Especially with the kids come in with stuff, junkmail, boyscouts/fundraisers/bibleschool info, who said it one time, the box of cereal for the kids, etc. must be right next to her, well, I would have to say,
that's about the only thing that's NOT!!!
I have a chair that's next to my desk that's a catch~all, I swear some days it's taller than me!
I often think and wonder if I was on one of those makeover shows or Mission Organization or Martha Stewarts show, how they'd first go running out of the room and if they did attempt to do it, HOW the out come would look as when they have the final pictures of what they fixed it up to look like, It wouldn't work for me...I'd have it filled with kids toys and paper in a week! UGH!

Weezie

For you Cindy..lol.

ROFLMAO! ! !

Heres mine!



G-Mom

Meg,
!!!

Hmmmm, let's see if this works......this should show mine.....quite messy right now.....got to have the junkfood in close proximity...

Well.....there is NO WAY I'm posting a picture of mine on here!
You all would make so much fun of me I'd have to go underground for a few weeks!

Gosh, if I backed up far enough to take a pic of more than just the monitor & keyboard, and a little bit around it.. you'd be in for quite a shock. What a mess!!!

Meg

Sorry Cindy,
But I'd beat you in the MESS catagory!!!
I hate paper work and dusting!
*and putting away things, having to get up for things, reaching tooooooo far for things,
and I just plain NEED ALOOOOOOOOT OF THINNNNNNNGS!
(**I sound like a George Carlin joke there for a second, scared myself!!)

My husband says, "You have tooooooooooo much STUFF!!!" :rolleyes:

Weezie
Meg, got you beat by a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG shot!!!

Cindy, Weezie.....I hereby issue you both an official dare....I dare you both to share the messiness of your desks so we can judge who's is worse......c'mon we want to see who has the messiest desk...

I think that was a challenge....

Hey meg, great minds think alike!

I'm thinkin' about it...

First, I'm thinkin' it AIN'T gonna happen!

Then, I'm thinkin' I've already made an a$$ out of myself here TOO many times, so one more ain't gonna hurt...

Gonna go find the camera...

Then have to edit some stuff OUT!

Ok, how about 4 pics in one post??

Shot 1- my pc


Shot 2- mine & his


Shot 3- his over to the card table.. (I had to cut some out..


And lastly view from the other side, starting at the laptop (again, edited!)



Meg

Oh yeah???


:rolleyes:

What?

You mean you don't have pictures of all of us sitting by your computer?

I went back and looked to see if I could zoom in on a reflection in the computer screen!

Bet Meg didn't think of that one!!!

Did you have to zoom in very far Cindy???
Okay...bad kitty...I know!
Question is did Meg go back and take a second look to make sure ?????

You KNOW she did!

What problem?

Oh Bill...ho hummm...in denial! <img border="0" alt="[perplexed]" title="" src="graemlins/confused.gif" />

I DO NOT EVEN DARE TO SHOW MINE........

Everyone I've seen so far,
is emaculate!!!!

I'm with Bill on WHAT PROBLEM???
I don't see one!!!

OMG, ok, noooo.. I didn't think about the reflectoporn. ROFL. I did go back and just look at the photos, I don't see a reflection, but I'm not trying to ZOOM IN either..lol. He's dressed, really... just in his weekend clothes. Which is how he rolls out of bed, till he goes to bed. But I didn't want to answer the question for him, "boxers or briefs?"

Meg

Ok Catlover, where should I start??

Here, behind my puter where I sit...


Or here, behind my 60" TV??



Meg

Meg,
I just had to go back and check the "reflection"
outta total curiousity and what they were talkin' about, *I didn't see anything* but what game is the hubby playin'???? Mine's addicted to a game on line called TRIBES and it sorta looked similar to what yours was playin'....
And how did you get him to wear the head phones???
OH MY GAWDDDDDDDD mine has his so loud sometimes,
I have to remind him that even though I'm going deaf in one ear, I can hear quite well outta the other!!!! :p

Love your set up of side by side puters,
we're getting a new desk made, *well, it's on temp. hold right now, putting a shed in but, we'll have side by sides soon.. *for my wee~one and me... that way I can sit with him and help him alot more when he wants to do his "Reader~Rabbits" and all of those type games.
Hubby's is behind me in the same room, but he has to have his back to the wall, he made himself an area with surround~sound for that tribes game. :rolleyes:

Weezie

After months of nagging, I made him break out the headphones. I couldn't stand all the loud noise when I'd be sitting across the room and had the tv cranked and still couldn't hear it. He still gets loud during some matches.. he starts yelling like crazy in his microphone!!

He plays Medal of Honor Allied Assault. And I think sometimes Soldier of Fortune II. They look the same to me.. I don't play them! LOL. He plays online with a group of guys, in tournaments.

Meg

Well, I just went back and looked at all the photos.

Meg...all I can say is... .


The closest I found to anything "dirty" in the pictures is in MY picture. It jumped out at me as soon as I looked at the picture this time... (It was not intentional!)

Did ya see the pic of Gardenmom in my picture?

Here's some more of my computer room/library/bedroom.....lol It's my fav. room in the house......I'm the only one that uses it really, so it's my own little hideaway.....

And Cindy, what's dirty??? I went back and looked and everything.

Loz, your place looks nice. Too nice. Maybe I should send my kids over for a few weeks..lol.

Cindy, I didn't see anything "dirty" in your pic, but we did notice the Jim Beam, and is that Pee Wee Herman on your monitor?! I see G-Mom, I think!?

I have a favorite room too, I demolished what was there before.. fake wood paneling & chair rail half way up the wall.. and picked out the rest and had a little help with the border. I picked the colors & painted a lot, and had to repair the walls first from tearing down the panel crap. I dont' think it turned out too bad..






Meg

Meg.....this room is messy to me....lol I just throw stuff everywhere, and the books need straightened up bad......It's not my fav. as far as decorations/design go--just my fav. because it's all mine.....since it's one of the rooms that most people coming in the house don't see I can throw all kinds of junk in here.....

I like your bathroom ......I don't love fake wood paneling at all----too bad it's in almost every room of the hose......lol We painted the living room cream right over the paneling for now until we drywall......and the bedrooms up here are all a lighter paneling so I'm living with it for now........this carpet up here , it's all ugly gold...that will be going just as soon as I get the energy to move everything so it can be pulled up.....which may be a long time....Dark paneling makes me feel like I'm in a cave though--and I like light....

OK...if I'm the only one who noticed it in my pic, I'm not saying what it is! It's probably just obvious to me, anyway.

And, yep...that's my good friend Pee Wee Herman there on the monitor.

OMGosh.....Guuurl....bring in the backhoe....pitchfork...trashtruck.
Call the fire dept. and hook up those hoses to the fire hydrant....and hose er' out!!!

What's the show called CLEAN SWEEP?!!!!....sign up quick before the "stuff" eats you!

I had a mess awhile back from inheriting a lot of things but they were in boxes...got rid of 90% of that mess but don't look in my walk in closet....the remaining boxes may fall over on you!!!

Have a few remaining items in garage that I need to get rid of....but I am working on that one.
Getting things organized to figure out how much shelf space I need to have something built to put all the tools etc on.

How do you know where anything is???

My daughter has clothes in piles in her room and it driiiiiiives me crazy. Think she does it because she knows when I can't take it anymore I will end up doing her laundry!!! :p
Catlover

Meg...your bathroom turned out great!

One of these days I would like to get rid of some wallpaper previous owners put up in the hallway and the front bathroom. Now it is uglllly stuff! Want to repaint the whole house...oh gosh ...so many things I need to do!

Hehe.. yea, that's the show! Umm.. but they scare me. They might lose my important stuff! LOL. But yea, the house is a disaster area, I know. But I just don't look at it, and maybe it'll go away.

Meg

Meg- I like your bathroom, too!

And, OMG, are we all married to the same man, or what? Between the mess and the LOUD games-- I think the only difference is in which game they play. Okay, just wait till I dig out the camera, you've gotta see a pic of my hubby's 'puter surrounded on all sides by his MASSIVE Sipmsons figure collection...

"I just don't look at it, and maybe it'll go away"
Riiiiiiiight Meg....keep convincing yourself!

What is it they say on that show...if you haven't used it/seen it for 6 mo. to a year then you don't NEED it!!!

Do you even know what is in that pile beside the file cabinets??? :rolleyes:

My thing is file it and forget it exists....and hurry and close the door before it falls out!!!

I really like the colors you did the bathroom in....I need to open up and go for some color other than white....I moved into this house a few years ago and it is an awful peach color and an off white color....and to hang pictures they used 16 penny nails ....thinking light shades of green and yellows. I need to break out of my shell....but definitely not going for the bright red and bold colors. Don't get me wrong some places that looks really good...but ohhh that is totally not me. Something to go with an antique country look and light color wood floors. I dunno one of these years.

Hey, can someone tell me how to post a photo directly in here, rather than posting a link to another server?

BTW, just in case you all couldn't guess....I'm a bookworm......I horde them....I have boxes of them in the basement too.....my mom said to me a while back I should get rid of some of them....I cringed......It's like my own little library.....Next week maybe I'll clean it up really good and post some pics of how it looks when it's all clean and nice.....lol

My name is Laura, and I'm a pack rat.....

I can admit it....oh, just you wait until you all see my xmas decorations.....you'd think I had about 10 kids here the way I decorate.....my mom says, no wonder Athena(my niece) loves it here you have so much stuff for her to look at and play with.....I'm the certified knick knack queen--honestly I am....or as Mark puts it....Oh no, you aren't buying more junk? Especially flowery junk.....I love anything flowery and countryish......Clutter is a main problem of mine....and I hate to throw anything out....I even have some clothes from my first year of college when I was 17.......let's see I'm 28 now....maybe it's time to throw some away.

Geegeeburr,

Try the image button...


I honestly don't know??
But, If I put a picture from Bill's graphic's
that's how I'd get the picture on there.

But I think, don't quote me, you have to have it linked to something????

Weezie

Apparently I am very slow-- where's the image button?

When you go to post,
and that part comes up...

Scroll down, and look for:
URL.......EMAIL
BOLD......ITALICS
QUOTE.....CODE
LIST~START....LIST~ITEM
LIST~END....*IMAGE*

It'll be on the bottom right,
click that and it'll have an area to type in
(or copy and pasted) into it...
*make sure the letters in blue go away first,
or you might have two http//'s.

Weezie

This is a test....
Trying to post photos of my desk and hubby's desk. This is my desk:

More of my desk. (Who was talking about Clean Sweep? I challenge you to a clutter duel!)

This is hubby's with every Simpsons figure EVER MADE.

Loz, Ya know, I think we were sisters or something, separated..lol.

I have always loved my books.. I still have books from my childhood, that I keep on a bookshelf. My kids will someday read these, I just know it! I can't get rid of books, that's just wrong!!

nic-nacs.. yea, got those too. I started that collection young as well. I have an aunt that used to have her own ceramic shop that was the garage, converted. It was full of shelves of ceramics, paints, glazes, molds, and even a kiln! I used to go over there and get my goods fer free!! She'd let me paint my own, or give me stuff she'd made. She switched after years of doing that, to painting. So of course, I got some pictures. Then my mom started having Home Interior parties.. I'd go, and get more stuff!! (And I mean, I was only maybe 10-12 years old then!) I'd save my allowance to buy stuff I wanted, and mom would sometimes buy me something I really wanted and couldn't afford. Later, when I was 18, I went to a Princess House Crystal party. I ended up getting a bunch of stuff the next couple of months. I can't part with that stuff, it's so pretty!! (Much of it in boxes!)

Now, we have clutter of another kind too.. papers, boxes, just junk laying around. True, a lot could be gotten rid of. I just don't like getting into it, cuz it takes forever!!!! I could spend an entire day just doing a kid's room. I've done that a few times now! Go in with garbage bags and get rid of at least 2-3 bags of old broken toys, etc. It's time again. I dread that chore. I almost have to do it when the kids aren't home, cuz they get in my way "to help".

And for the record catlover.. yes, I know most of what's behind me. And the CATS are the ones that knocked it all over, off the shelves!!


Meg

geegee.. try using photobucket for picture storage. They allow linking to the picture like that. Webshots only lets you post a link, not the photo itself. :p

Meg

ps- I went to webshots and looked at your desk photos. I like your desk!! I want that kinda setup, but I don't have the space for that!! Wow!

all i can say is .... glad i'm not alone!!!

>>Do you have one of those cup-holders like in a car by your computer?<<
>>That's what I've been thinking about installing here at my desk!<<<

hey!!!!
On my new computer there's a button and when you push it ......voila! instant cupholder!!!
HA HA!

NO WAY! ! !

I couldn't for some reason figure out or use Photobucket but I've had good luck with sony www.imagestation.com

Thanks, guys, it finally worked!!!

Meg- I built that desk, and am pretty darn proud of it. Thx. That's our office. Now, if we ever have another baby, the office is GONE (sob, sob..)

geegeeburr...Your desk area looks very organized to me.

What do you reckon he was lookin' at?


Cindy

My web cam image of my desk? (NO... don't ask!) :p

Meg......wow, sounds like we do have some stuff in common.....lol I'm even guilty of sometimes buying the same book twice.... :rolleyes: I have so many that I forget what I even have.....and although I'm not big into reading a book a second time I still can't bear to part with them all......

I love ceramics!!!! I paint a lot of them....one of my fav. things.........my sister is a minimalist/clean type decorator.....I think when she walks into my house she feels claustrophobic, but I love being surrounded by all my junk.....actually it helps me feel at ease.....

geegeeburr--Your office looks pretty good to me, you have all of those pretty colored storage boxes on your desk........Maybe I should break down and buy something like that......

Cindy, our computers being on the GH just shows how truly and sadly addicted we are to this place......we've been brainwashed I tell you, brainwashed....

o.k. I've been holding back here but now I'm ready. I got home on Saturday night from a 14 hour workday exhausted but had to check on you guys . Read this thread and OMG laughed my a$$ off!!! Oh, it was great! Wanted to clean up the old puter desk before posting but figured that wouldn't be fair so .......took pictures before......




and after

And I see the drawers underneath the desk top...uh huh....open the drawer and sweep...
Organized clutter
....that's what the top of my file cabinet looks like...but the file cabinet is in the CLOSET!!!
So Catlover is guilty as charged on closet clutter!!!! :rolleyes:

Catlover

I love seeing everyones desks....it's great, like a little glimpse into that person!!!! Who's next????