This is one reason.....

[nwhiker]

... I love my spouse.

1. I have an MSI laptop. It was a POS pretty much from day one and I hate it. The keyboard started crapping out about 3 months after I bought it from Costco but I couldn't replace it because I was in the middle of a graduate program and could not be without the laptop for the time it would take MSI to repair it, Grr. Keyboard was unreliable but still vaguely functional until about 2 years ago when it became unusable.

2. So I've been using a bluetooth keyboard since. It's bulky and annoying but it works.

3. We are going to Yurp in February and ugh, what to do? I mean, I don't want to lug my keyboard internationally, especially since we might not be renting a car so train etc.

Solution 1:
Buy a new computer. I don't strictly need it and I really didn't like that expensive solution. It would have worked, of course.

Solution 2: drop in a new keyboard. That was my preferred solution but... all the available keyboards are drop-shipped from China and one month isn't enough to reliably get one here.

Solution 3: Dh had said we could just take his Surface, which, fine, but I hate the tiny keyboard on that thing. So... he suggested I bring along my bluetooth keyboard to use with the Surface. Lightest most portable solution yet!

This is one of the reasons I keep him around. I never went down the path of how we could share the Surface because I hate the keyboard on that thing.

😃