Post brought to you by the letter P.

[nwhiker]

BamBam walked all over my computer while I was getting a cup of tea.

I chased him away, but as he left, he managed to lock the computer, so I had to enter my password again.

It didn't work.

I tried again.

Still no dice.

I checked what I was typing. My password starts with a P, and no, it is most definitely not Passw0rd.

My keyboard wouldn't type a P.

Now, I hate my computer, it's a POS, and it was expensive enough that I'm galled that I trusted that anything Costco carried would be at least minimally decent. They stopped carrying this model shortly after I bought it, and things didn't really go to sh*t until it was out of the Costco warranty. It's still under MSI's warranty, but since they take it away and I'd be stuck with no computer for a while, that's not happening. Anyhow. Back to the letter P, which it would not type.

I tried using the ASCII code, but there is not number pad on the keyboard, so that was iffy anyhow, and Fn-Alt-112 didn't produce a P (or any other letter when I tried other ASCII codes).

Dh had a wired keyboard that for some off reason his company sent him. He doesn't use it, but I grabbed and plugged it in.

And it didn't type any Ps either.

Totally freaking weird.

A full reboot fixed the problem, but I have to wonder what happened. That one was a completely new one on me.

Also, it had a long while since I last restarted so it was a pain in the ass.

But I have my Ps back.