I was in the Apple Store yesterday, more specifically the Genius Bar, with miscellaneous airport issues. I asked my genius what is the best way to clean my keyboard. He said shut the machine down and clean everything except the screen with a Mr. Clean sponge. A Mr. Clean sponge?
A dirty Mr. Clean sponge
A commercial is being shot at our house tomorrow. In preparations, I’m taking down all our Nelson Bubble Lights. I’ve heard many ways on how to clean these fiberglass lights. The strangest being that a woman used to bathe with them. I’m strange, but not that strange. I usually use warm soapy water but today I’ve decided to use the Mr. Clean Sponge.
Mr. Nelson meet Mr. Clean
There was a small part of me worried that the Mr. Clean sponge would end up eating through the fiberglass and leave me with a skeleton of a bubble light. In case you aren’t familiar with the Mr. Clean sponges let me say these mystery sponges are a miracle. Many a times they have saved us when a Sharpie was wielded incorrectly by one of our kids. They are made in Germany, no ingredients active or inactive are printed on the box. Even the warnings on the labels are vague. “To avoid accidental ingestion keep out of reach of toddlers and pets.” That about covers it.
Alright, back to the computers. So I shut down my laptop and clean all the keys, the top and bottom and restart. The Mr. Clean sponge seems to have disabled my track pad. It’s completely stuck. The geniuses never warned me about this. What have they been drinking? I consulted numerous discussion chat boards and everyone says that I need to reset my PRAM. Resetting your PRAM is sort of like doing Twister with you fingers.
A Stretch
To reset your PRAM you need to shut down your computer, hold down the command and option keys along with the P and R keys restart hold these keys till you hear the second tone. I didn’t believe this was going to work with unsticking my track pad.
I have more hair on my chest
Tomorrow I’m going into the hospital to have what is hopefully going to get my heart rate back on a normal sinus rhythm. My cardiologist is going defibrillate me. It’s kinda like rebooting or resetting my PRAM. What can I say? I guess every 49 years things like this just need to be done. Right? Anyways, I know I won’t have my camera with me so no photos and besides I will be under a general anesthesia.
Hi Ted
I was “defibrillated” in ‘98 after some passing out episodes. It was actually a test where they were trying to determine if they could make my heart go into “fibrillate mode” and it did so then they had to “defibrillate” me (rather quickly it think). It felt a bit like I had been run over by a truck after, but here I am telling you about it.
I am in awe really of how much modern medicine knows about the heart. It seems to be more like a machine than any other part of our bodies and therefore not subject to the idiosyncrasies and mysteries of other health issues. I have received two, top of the line replacement parts for mine and they have done me very well.
Courage.
Ariel