'N'-y way

I have had my faithful laptop for about three years. It's a bit slow these days and is rapidly running out of hard disk space. I shall have to delete some of my porn stash. But it serves me well for the most part. The vast majority of my Plogs have been composed upon its keys, and an inumerable number of emails have been drafted.

I touch type. I can do about 70 words per minute. More if they're all really short words like "the" or "and". "Discombobulate" takes a little bit longer, as does "ambidextrous". I don't think I could type "discombobulate" 70 times in one minute. Perhaps I will try at the weekend. Christ, my life is empty.

Anyway, although the laptop is a bit creaky at the seams, it's generally still operational, with only one real flaw... the 'N' key is worn away. Well, not quite. The 'N' key still works, it's just that the little white letter 'N' is worn away. This isn't a major problem. As I said, I touch type anyway, so I rarely look at the keys themselves. But I wondered how this happened.

Then I realised. It's my surname. Never in the history of surnames has a surname had such an imbalance of letters. THREE (count 'em) 'N' letters, and only one other letter at all. No wonder the 'N' lettering is worn away. I'm surprised the whole laptop isn't lopsided. A lopsided laptop. Or a lapsided loptop.

Hmm. An early night, I think.