I really cannot be trusted with dangerous instruments any more.
Yesterday I took a phone call while I was in the middle of cutting out some cardboard pieces. After I finished the call, I went to hang up my phone... didn't realize that I was still holding my X-Acto knife... THEN PLUNGED IT INTO MY FINGER!
It hurt for a second, but I honestly didn't think it was that bad.
Until I pulled the knife out of my finger.
Blood. Everywhere.
I wrapped it in a paper towel I had in my desk, sent a couple texts one-handed on my blood-spattered keyboard, then rushed to clean out the wound and get it bandaged up.
Then come back to clean up the mess... which looked like a murder scene. I felt like I needed to call one of those mafia cleaners or something.
Anyway... it bled through multiple banadages before it clotted. Then this morning it was in pretty good shape, all things considered, and I got to clean it up. Good as almost new!
There was a casulty amongst the carnage, however.
Some of the keys on my keyboard were sticking. Since it's Apple, you can't just unscrew it to clean it out, so I did the best I can with soaking a rag in solvent so I could un-stick the keys. As I was scrubbing to get the residue out of the keyboard, I noticed that my key caps were being wiped clean!
But no problem there. I have a fine-point Sharpie marker!
I thought I was being smart by letting the keyboard dry for a couple hours, but it made no difference. The Sharpie started smearing almost immediately. So much for Sharpies being a PERMANENT marker!
Oh well. Probably need to order a new keyboard anyway since the A, W, and Q are still sticky no matter what I do.
I could be in serious trouble if I need an A&W Root Beer, and we can't have that.
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Do you not touch type?
I do. And when typing I never bother to look at the keys. But there are times where you’re just pressing a few letters or using them for something other than typing where it’s handy to know what you’re pressing.
I’ve been so worried about this with my Apple Keyboards (not blood, per se, but other liquids) that I got one of those protective plastic covers for both my external keyboard and the one built into my MacBooks. It takes some getting used to and they do get kinda nasty pretty quickly but I’d rather do that and replace a $5-10 sheet of plastic every year or so than ruin the keyboard. Also, I do wash them in soapy water every so often. Doesn’t get rid of the discoloration but makes me feel better about germs.
I’ve gotten blood on my keyboard before. Soak a paper towel with Windex. Took it right off and without wiping out the keycaps.