One thing I miss most about living in Hawaii is eating at Zippy's. They are a local "fast" food place that serves up heaping plates of local favorites.

What school trip was ever complete without someone in the class bringing a "ZipPack" bento for lunch? This includes a pile of rice, a fried chicken thigh, mahimahi and of course, a slice of fried Spam. Plus you could get a side order of kim chee :)

For my birthday, I'm playing the Fortieth Fantasy Game, wherein I have my favorite treats to eat. I don't want a ZipPack; I want Nappies. A dozen coconut Napples... which is wha they call their turnovers because the name of their bakery is Napolean's. Mmmm.... Naaaaappppples. The apple Napples are good too, but this is my fantasy.

I fill out the online order form and the shipping is more than the cost of the treats...but you know, it's not that I MUST have them, it's that I CAN. And so, I clear the form and sigh happily, knowing that a box of these is a click and a paycheck away.

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The keyboard is done. Now I need to get used to it. In a way it's like learning a new language. I find myself translating as I type. Years of touch typing to undo...but so far, not as painful as I fretted over. Indeed, in many ways it is a lot easier. The keys are set into logical patterns and I am already touch typing just very slowly.

The LAN guy had never heard of Dvorak before. Luckily, I had printed out the instructions on how to make changes to the registry so he followed them and all is well. Whew!

I do wonder why they had to change the placement of the punctuation, but the keys all seem to flow. I like having the period where the E key used to be. It's a simple but elegant placement. Even if I do tend to look down when reaching for it!

Iron Steph graciously added comments for us Netscape users. Now I can make my little observations like the non-Netscapers! Bwahahahaha! Wow! Typing Bwahahaha is VERY satisfying on this keyboard. I wonder if Mr. Dvorak used that phrase a lot himself?

I'm going to try switching to the Dvorak keyboard. My right wrist is often painful and now my arm and half my hand falls asleep or goes numb when I type.

The LAN guy needs to come to the office though to stick in the NT CD so that I can change configurations on my keyboard.

And then I need to go home tonight and switch there.

It'll be interesting to see how long it takes me to return to gusts of up to 90 WPM!