The on-screen keyboard represents many things to many people. To the crippled, it represents the last hope of typing things legibly. To the tablet user, it represents the frustration that a one-button mouse-finger is not enough to run a computer system. To the laptop user, it is a reminder that once those keys are broken, they stay broken, until you spend a fortune. To me, at least for now, it is a reminder not to keep my sugary liquids on my desk. Thus dies a keyboard that, for 11 years, has been my favorite, and was a faithful reminder that Gateway used to be somebodies. Until they made computers with defective parts, ugh (other story--moving on).
     Luckily, the computer guy at work was nice enough (and a bit of a packrat) to have spares, so my drivel will continue unabated (you lucky readers, you).
     The Montgomery Ward in Huntington Beach used to anchor a Mall called the Center Avenue Shopping Center. The mall died, but the Ward's stayed up for nearly 14 years. Just three months ago, it was intact. This Saturday, I saw it gutted, wounded, and about to collapse. The new mall, Bella Terra, is about to consume the space for new stores--I assume. Got about 110 pictures of it. Will be back in a month.
     Cons All-Star shoes look pretty cool (see I, Robot), but they are not padded to do anything else. In the time I wore them, I injured my feet badly enough to need three surgeries. The replacement shoes, in this case, were a brand called D.V.S.--a skate shoe that is not only roomy enough to hold wide feet but centered and padded to take all sorts of punishment. After two years, I wore holes in both soles, and I didn't even care until it started raining this week.
     So, new shoes. And since the brand and size are a big esoteric, I got them online.
     Not much else new, but I felt like sharing.