macbook

For my birthday, my husband, parents, and grandmother all pitched in and gave me enough money to buy a refurbished MacBook. It was much needed, especially considering that I now use my laptop for most of the time I am awake and cram it full of the crazy copy I write all day.

But here’s the thing: it is better than my old iMac in every way except one. It has a slightly bigger screen, it goes faster, it holds more, it picks up our wireless internet consistently. But the keyboard is considerably bigger than my former keyboard. I heard that there were lots of complaints about the original iMac keyboard being too small, but it was perfect for my puny, stubby little hands.

The result of the keyboard size shift is concentrated in a problem with my left ring finger and its constant confusion of the “S” key and the “Z” key. It seems like it can’t quite reach to “Z” key when it needs to and that, as a result, it now often overcompensates and hits the “Z” instead of the “S”, as if that’s going to help matters.

The result is that I’m very often mixing up my Zs and Ss, especially near the end of words. More specifically, all of my copy has started sounding like a British Rapper. Here are two examples:

“…that allow educational policy students to realise the skillz needed in….”

“… analyse chartz and tables for further….”

Let’s hope I can correct this problem before I turn in something like this to a client. …home boyz.