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Daughter Number Three finally got her room cleaned this week. We’ve been after her for longer than I care to admit to get it picked up, but she’s been complaining that there just isn’t a place to put all the stuff that’s in that room.

Early last week her older sister was watching a tape that her grandfather made when the oldest daughter was about 18 (or so) months old and Daughter Number Three was but a twinkle in her father’s eye. The bedroom’s current resident got a look at how it was kept way back then and inspiration hit. She spent several days going through that room picking stuff up off the floor and throwing out the junk. That room now looks better than it has in months, with one little problem: the electronic spaghetti under the desk. The wires going from the keyboard and mouse to the mini tower under the desk are a real problem. Because of the distance involved, it’s too easy to disconnect the mouse from the keyboard just in the course of using the mouse. The keyboard frequently gets unplugged because its cord gets tangled up in your feed when you try to get up from the desk.

I think the solution is going to be this wireless keyboard and mouse. The keyboard has extra buttons that control multimedia functions so you can increase or decrease the volume or swith tracks on your background music without switching out of whatever application you’re running. The mouse has a couple of extra buttons that can be programmed for common tasks as well.

The wireless keyboard and mouse set that I found on sale just now has one feature that didn’t come with the cheaper set I got myself a few years ago: a wrist rest. Given that I type with my two middle fingers these days, a wrist rest isn’t really anything I’d ever need, but the girls who use the computer in back are both fairly accomplished touch-typists and they would probably appreciate that little feature.

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