...and breathe!

[caddyman]

There is nothing quite like a catastrophic keyboard failure in the middle of an online game to get people racing around trying to sort it out.

The batteries on Furtle's Mac keyboard upped and died (fortuitously) during a break in a Warcrack Raid. Our infinite supply of AA batteries seems to be infinite no more. We needed four and found two. Scrounging from a number of sources, including a rarely used transistor radio and the remote for our Freeview box, which currently only lets us watch Channel 5 increased our selection, but the keyboard remained stubbornly inactive.

I have a spare cordless keyboard that works by some other system rather than the Mac's bluetooth, but having spent several months in a corner with a plug adapter sitting on it, it seems that the batteries therein were flat, too. Happily, THAT keyboard only requires two, not four AA batteries and after some faffing, the raid continues. Tomorrow we buy more batteries. New ones for Furtle's keyboard, plus several spares and some replacements for my rarely used tranny. I may not bother replacing those in the freeview remote. I can get Channel 5 on analogue...

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

heheh I've been here in the middle of a raid only to have the wireless battery's mice run out. It's both embarrassing and highly annoying. Of course you NEVER have any other batteries around when this happens.......

[littleonionz.livejournal.com]

Oh I've been there with the whole raid keyboard death thing, luckil ghatanothoa knows where the batteries (as well as the bodies) are kept.

[probablyscotty.livejournal.com]

I am assured that confessions of wireless keyboard and/or mouse in a raiding or pvp guild WILL lead to cries of "n00b".

Apparently. :-P

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

yes but who wants wires - so messy!

[fencingsculptor.livejournal.com]

Gaia ?

Homeless Penguins, Polar bears ickle cute Pandas.....

But deffinately not the Duracell Bunny.....

[romney.livejournal.com]

Megatokyo

[pauln.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't you replace the batteries in the remote so that they're available for raiding next time?

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I like wires.

I'm such a luddite I deliberately have a mouse with a ball as well. Cos when it stops working properly all I have to do is pick the fluff out.

I find the way that every time I move my laptop at work I lose connection to our "wireless" network really special.

Sometimes I think that technology has got a bit ahead of itself where computers are concerned.