So it would appear that my keyboard, after doing much battle with my fingertips, seemingly broke out in mini-battles amongst its inhabitants, the keys.

First off, there IS no “E” key.

QWFRTY??!! how is THAT pronounced– Kwiffertee? I liked Kwertee just fine! But it seems that the E was having an identity crisis and wanted to become like its neighbor, the F… oh wait! Where’d F go?

SLIG?? Shouldn’t that be something down the lines of… SDFG? “SLIG” is pronouncable! Maybe this row wanted the pronounceablility QWERTY had.

My best guess is that E ran away, F moved up a story and I made a clone of itself.

O, no….

I and P are perfectly intact, but O is GONE! O woe is a keyboard sans O!! Perhaps O decided that the numerical equivalent of nothingness, 0, was more slender and O wanted to slim down. Slimmed down a lil’ bit too much, as it’s not there anymore…

Or perhaps it caught Spacebar Syndrome?

Either the spacebar threw a party and C, V, N, M and > took off…. or the spacebar was putting on the peer pressure to said keys about how cool simplicity is through empty space, and they decided to try out that ‘fashion’.

Besides all the individual key drama, this old HP keyboard (P2359AA, doesn’t look like they make em any longer) has been a wonderful computer companion.

My geeky goal?

To completely wipe off every key’s letter print.