Restless

I'm feeling a little restless, a little dissatisfied with the look here. But I'm not crazy about the other possibilities and I'm feeling too 'net-stupid to figure out how to make things look the way I want them to look. However, the restlessness will reach critical mass and I'll be at a point where I won't care how long it takes me to make things the way I want them, and I'll change things.

I do that.

I go along, mildly annoyed by a situation, pretty much able to deal with it...and then one day I snap and mildly annoying is suddenly absolutely intolerable.

Usually it's about money. I don't want to spend the money to fix the situation, so I don't...but only for a while because that moment of snapping will come.

Or most of the time. Sometimes I don't snap. I haven't snapped yet over a laptop--I go through waves of craving one, and I come thisclose to buying one, but I can't quite make myself spend the necessary money, and the wave subsides. This has happened two or three times in the last couple of years.

The thing that hangs me up--or one of the things, anyway--is that I use one of those "natural" keyboards, the ones with the split in the middle, so that the b & n keys are further apart than the t & y keys. And the t & y aren't anywhere near each other. This keeps my wrists pretty much straight and it keeps my fingers from crowding one another...and it keeps all my really bad typing habits under control. (Like reaching for the 'n' with my left index finger.)

Sadly, they don't yet make laptops with a keyboard like that. I could always plug my existing keyboard into the laptop, but since the chief selling point of a laptop (for me, anyway) is portability, lugging a larger-than-ordinary keyboard around with the laptop kind of defeats the purpose.

So maybe changing the look of this blog'll turn out to be like the laptop: more trouble than it's worth... Anyway, we'll see...