Au claire de la lune

"Au claire de la lune,
mon ami Pierrot,
pretez moi ta plume
pour ecrire un mot."

For you non-francophones the silence of the past day was due to a flatlined wireless keyboard. There were signs of death, then she flatlined. Batteries checked out ok. Used to be the pencil got too short to sharpen or your Bic ran out of ink. With a flatlined monitor there is no way to call for online help. One cannot google an SOS of any sort. Search for the keyboard operating guide? Go ahead, waste your time looking for it.

After buying a new wireless keyboard and reading the Logitech online support pages I discovered that not only my wireless mouse has a connect button, the keyboard does too (NE corner). A beep, a pulse. Wake up Lazarus. Time to get back to work. C'est la vie.

PS the new Wireless keyboard has nice soft keys and a built-in trackball. I'm going to keep it.