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Last week was a quite eventful one. Let’s have a look at Wednesday and Thursday, for example.
After waking up some time around noon, I celebrated Wednesday by spilling a good amount of coffee on my keyboard, somewhere around the letter ‘M’. Rotating the keyboard to various interesting angles I managed to let most of coffee run out of it. It seemed to work fine for two hours or so, until letter ‘L’ stopped working. I switched to another keyboard (it’s lucky we nerds have spares around) and later I took it completely apart to clean it up:

If you ever need to get inside a Keytronic Lifetime Designer keyboard without removing all the keycaps, here’s how. After removing the upper cover, remove the following keycaps (in Finnish layout): scroll lock, ’2′, ’7′, back quote (the key left of backspace), PageUp, ‘*’ on keypad, ‘S’, ‘H’, ‘Ä’, ’6′ on keypad, left Alt, and Insert on keypad. The clips which hold the thing together are then accessible.

Cleaning it up didn’t help, though. There was liquid coffee between the plastic “sheets” on which the contacts were printed, and apparently it had done some damage. I must study it further. Too bad, it was quite nice keyboard.

In the evening Toni dropped by to watch some anime and a movie (Horror Express (Eugenio Martín, 1973); it’s pretty hilarious at times even if it not intended as a comedy.. and it’s got Christopher Lee in it). Probably for a last time in a while – I hope you like it in Kuopio. I really enjoyed our evenings with beer & movies.

On Thursday I received the bed I had ordered in the beginning of July. Or, rather, the rest of the bed – they first brought it in on the previous week, but the design had suddenly changed without a notice to the shop. The original version is basically held together by notches in the wooden sides and feet, like this:

A very simple and nice design. But the new version I received had a bag of screws and wooden pegs and fake endpieces to make it look like the old design – and I disliked it immediately. According to the factory they had changed the design because the old one wasn’t strong enough, but I still preferred the old one and managed to get it switched. One day I’ll probably find out if it was a mistake…

As to reasons for getting this one: my bedroom looked very silly for being so sparsely furnished after I dumped the bookshelf. For that reason and for almost falling out of bed a few times I wanted a wider bed. I also wanted a more solid bed instead of a spring mattress softness, and test sleeping on the “futon” mattress of my sofa felt good. There was no 120cm wide bed frame (the size I would have preferred) for the model I wanted (or in the whole line-up of the manufacturer) so I got the 140cm wide model, which feels too big…