Spilled My Drink Dammit

On my tablet.
Spilled my Morning Monster into my KB this AM

Completely fried it… and stickified it too.. Tried to clean it, but nope. No spacebar nor letter ‘c’ ‘v’ or ‘b’

What can I say? I’m a fucking genius amiright?

Thankfully a replacement (the same one!) is on the way w/an overnight from the ‘Zon for $18!!! So SCORE!

The tablet does NOT however allow me to go and do my usual thang, so I’ll get y’all in the AM.
More Later
BCE

22 thoughts on “Spilled My Drink Dammit”

  1. Need to go to your local thrift store/Goodwill/Calvary Thrift/Deseret Industries/etc…..and buy several perfectly good donated keyboards. They’ll be wired (be sure they have the USB, not the circular DIN connector), not Bluetooth, but for the cost there vs ‘Zon, I think you could tolerate a little inconvenience. Buy more than one, for that rainy……errrr……Monster day.

      1. Out camping once, we forgot milk, so…
        We poured a beer over corn flakes. We already had pretty good hangovers, so we figured what the hell.

        Any port in a storm.

  4. In the past, I’ve taken the keyboard, doused it in rubbing alcohol, mashed all the keys then blew it out with compressed air. In a few hours it’s dried out.

    That said, they are cheap enough. I keep a few wired ones around. Those are like $6.

    At least it wasn’t a laptop. I’ve done that too.

  5. Just for grins, take old keyboard and dunk it keys down in distilled water – has to be distilled. slosh around.
    Soak for a couple of hours, shake out moisture and allow to drain more and air dry in a warm place keys facing down, if no warm places, an oven set at around 100 to 140 F for a few hours.
    Once dry, allow to cool and repeat. So long as the cock up is simply conductivity messing up the onboard logic, this has saved a few of my keyboards over time.
    If electronics fried, then there is no fix.

  7. Buried in “Windows Ease of Access” is seldom noticed “On Screen Keyboard” app that places a virtual keyboard on the screen and allows typing input using a mouse. It is painful. Easier is to get a cheap (Walmart) USB keyboard to use as backup…

  8. You ought to see if they make a keyboard cover for the style/brand/make/model of the keyboard you use.

    Basically it’s a keyboard condom. Fits over the keyboard, makes it so water and schmutz doesn’t get into the keyboards.

    They also supposedly make ‘sealed’ keyboards and liquid resistant keyboards. Probably a lot more expensive than a keyboard condom, but…

  10. A lot of us know the pain you are feeling and have found out the hard way that keyboards and liquids do not mix. I’ve even had the Bluetooth keyboards quit connecting for some random reason that did not involve liquids. As others have mentioned, it does not hurt to keep a few wired keyboards around for those occasions when your keyboard quits working for whatever reason.

    The same goes for the mouse. A wired mouse is practically free, so buy two for backups.

  12. Hey BCE—

    Unrelated to the sloshed keyboard, but I saw this little gadget mentioned in a post and thought of y’all and the ’rents. Maybe take a peek and see if’n it’d be of help.
    https://getjubileetv.com/
    Peace,
    Bear

  13. A proper response to anyone from “the gummint”:

    Well Sir, one could infer from your actions that you were born out of wedlock, but then this is only one of many possible conclusions.
    I bid thee kindly go elsewhere to practice your peculiar craft.
    Door closes and locks.

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