Joy, joy, joy!

I’ve been increasingly frustrated with my mouse lately – it catches, horizontal movement is jerky, vertical motion is sketchy at best, and so forth. I’ve taken it apart, I’ve cleaned it, I’ve tried different rolling surfaces… nothing works. It’s also very flat, which causes me to hold my wrist is a rather “broken” fashion.

Today, while surfing, I nearly smashed the ruddy thing – is it too much to ask that a mouse, I don’t know, mouse correctly?

Then I remembered that in my laptop case o’goodies that MLG gave me a few months ago, there was a mouse. A useful addition when you get fed up with the little button that the laptop has for mouse movement, or if your hands are the size of my husband’s, for example, as opposed to my own tiny fingers. I tend to use keyboard commands while working with the laptop, so the little button isn’t a problem.

I dug it out. I plugged it in.

Glory! Will you look at that! Smooth pointer movement; a nice arch to the hand-rest; and a gentle click (so quiet, in fact, that I can barely tell I’ve selected something). No more mouse-abuse on my desk!

Marc, I so owe you. Are you keeping track?