technology and life

Okay. I'm clumsy. I know that. But it really irritates me when some things are designed to screw you up. I'm sure that's not what they had in mind when they designed the laptop. But it really messes me up sometimes. Not the whole thing. Just that pain in the arse mousepad thing under the keyboard. First of all, I don't like it. I got an optical mouse to use instead. It still screws me up, though. I type really fast. The keys can usually keep up with me. However, on these stupid laptops, my hand brushes across that little mousepad and registers it as a "click." Usually, since I keep bumping it, the mouse is not in the same place as where I am typing. So then once my hand "clicks," the cursor is somewhere else. Since I type so fast, I don't usually realize this right away. All of a sudden, I'm typing in a completely different area. It often involves separating a word and typing in there. It's highly irritating. I am told, however, that I can turn this feature off. Excellent! Except that it's not. Since my personal laptop is a piece of garbage, the USB ports are rather temperamental. Sometimes, they don't work at all. So, if I turn off that little built in mouse and then my USB ports decide they are PMS-ing and don't want to work, I am screwed. Fantastic.