My friend Adam and I were discussing keyboards the other day (as it turns out, he does use a dvorak layout keyboard) and he asked me about the "s" key. I lost it some time ago in an airport. The story is very uninteresting. Mostly it's about how dumb I can be sometimes.

So then he asks me how I've been typing s's in the meantime, and I explained that I'd just been pressing the little nubbin underneath where the key used to be. I thought I was being all clever and good with the keyboarding skills.

So then he asks me why I didn't just pop off a lesser-used key, such as the function key, and use that key-cap in place of the missing s key.

Honestly, I hadn't thought of it - in spite of the snarky comments about moving key caps around to spell different things on the keyboard.

This whole incident just illustrates one thing - sometimes, I really am that dumb. (But now I'm typing with an s key that looks like it should type a \ or a |.)

Books: The other night I couldn't sleep, so I stayed up into the wee hours of the morning writing another short story. It's one I've tried before and failed at miserably. I didn't finish it. I kind of got to a point where I thought "that was dumb. and forced" and I decided it meant I was too tired to be functional so I went to sleep. I haven't re-read the stuff yet. I'm too scared to let it see the light of day. Many times, when it comes to writing, things tend to look worse in the morning.