Or ... in this case, coffee!
Coffee? Yes ...! Allow me to elaborate:
As is my wont - being a "creature of habit" - breakfast (the more cynical types might call it "brunch"!) for ME is rounded off with a steaming mug of Nescafe' Instant 'Original' - [usually] somewhat precariously perched within easy reach of my right hand - when settling down to peruse 'Today's Posts' on the forum.
Well ...... I had been warned that such a practice amounted to "an accident waiting to happen" ... and happen it DID ... this forenoon!
Yes ... you've guessed! Due to a simple, momentary lapse in concentration upon hearing my wife's approaching footsteps (it was THIS website I'd been accessing - NOT one of the kind likely to cause an
like me any embarrassment from a guilty conscience
- honest!) I inavertently knocked over a practically-full mug of coffee onto my computer keyboard.
... no use in
over spilt coffee!
Whilst Myrna mopped up the ensuing sticky mess, I rummaged frantically through our linen cupboarding silently that I'd still be able to lay my hands on the cardboard box containing my OLD keyboard.
Phew! Luckily it was still there, the connecting cable fitted my present model ... and, as we say north of the Border, "Bob's yer uncle"!
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Originally Posted by grahamw48
) I must take after my dad in *that respect. Away back in 1977 when he was sixty-five - younger than I am now - he suffered a massive heart attack ... which he survived, but was hospitalised for 3 weeks ... and someone at my work kindly gave me a collection of the 'Scots Magazine' for him to read during his recuperation. Oh ... how he enjoyed reading this publication, since it provided an otherwise extremely active man with "something to occupy his mind" at least, and helped ease his frustration at having to give up work (despite having already surpassed the normal retiral age).
