Change is hard, so are Mondays

Today is a holiday for many, but not all.  While CJ has today off of school she still has gymnastics tonight. I know others who are going to school today, but many businesses will be closed and I believe there is no mail.

So today is not a typical Monday.  However we have had an adventure packed weekend so I need a down day and say THANK YOU to having today off.  Since Eric has today off, he and Grandpa are taking the kids, ALL of them, fishing.  Making it a play day for us ladies!

If today was a typical back to work and school day, I would be feeling ill will towards this Monday.  It was hard enough to get up out of bed this morning--okay I'll admit, every morning is hard.

Change is hard too.  Change out of routine can be refreshing or challenging.  I recently made a change that I have been putting off.  For awhile Grandma has been complaining when she visits, okay for about 2 years.  This visit, she brought me a different "better" option.

I have a different keyboard on my computer.

What's the big deal?  I kinda liked my old one.

No there was nothing special or fancy about it.  That whole row of silver buttons on top...I have no idea what they could be used for.  I mostly just type.  While we are a Mac family, the keyboard was a PC.  There is one big difference, that little bump to help guide your fingers on a PC is located on the D and K keys while on a Mac keyboard has it on the F and J keys.  I know this, and I can adjust, it's just different.

I do use the bumps to guide me.  I was taught in keyboarding (the BEST "easy A" class I ever took) to not look at my fingers and learned where the letters are and my fingers just go to each one as I type.  Also years of piano and being told "don't look at your fingers" have made my fingers very capable of doing what I tell them to do with out me having to double check by looking at them.  My mom also has these skills so I really didn't understand why it was such an issue when she would use my computer.  I understand why Eric didn't care for it.  And with CJ doing more things on the computer that requires a keyboard and she wants to actually type real words to people when chatting, it was starting to become an issue, an annoyance to me.

Not everyone KNOWS where each letter is apparently.

Mom brought down an old keyboard she had, but it had a different plug in than a USB ---which means Under School Bus --I know weird, I don't know why everything has to have abbreviations that seem to have nothing to do with whatever it is abbreviated for, I think it is part of the plan to keep us dazed and confused most of the time.
So I pulled out the keyboard for our old iMac computer...it was grape if you remember that from the Nineties.  I didn't really care for that keyboard when we used it.  It is compact in size and as my pinky reaches for delete, I often hit F10 one of those randomly used unknown use buttons.  It makes whatever I'm working on, disappear.  Now you know.  Also good to know, if you hit it again, everything will come back.

This keyboard does have two advantages.  When working on something that is Mac related and I need to push the "open apple" button, I now actually have one and don't have to guess around at the PC version of the same button.

And it has letters on the keys, so I should be able to set anybody up to use it, Eric, CJ, Grandpa or whoever, and they can find the letters they need for whatever project they are working on.  But I am signing the kids up for keyboarding as soon as I can!



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I doubled checked and you're right Ellen...both sets of bumps were on the F and J, maybe I had it backwards, but at one time I know they were different....or maybe there has been an agreement to just put them on F and J.  Thanks for pointing that out...I guess I'll do better research next time.

ps....Eric also told me the real words to USB and he distinctly said Bus for the B.