[gui-talk] mysterious cursor skipping all over solve3ed

[Joel Deutsch]

Some of you may recall that, a while back, I said I was having problems with 
this. I'd, say, composing an email in OE and suddenly find Windows making 
sounds at me that i was typing in a place where you couldn't  , that sort of 
thing. Then I'd press Insert  F to see where I was, and I'd be at the 
Desktop, or  in the OE inbox list or even in Word or whatever.

This interested a few listers, though not many. The general consensus was 
that, as my laptop was still a   new experience for me, including having a 
track pad, that I must not know quite where it was and be touching it or 
even brushing a hanging sleeve against it. None of which, I knew, was the 
case.

Well, an I T professional friend discovered that the track pad had gone bad, 
become oversensitive, and we're talking the teeniest atmospheric vibrations 
here, or maybe nothing stimulating it at all.

No, on my laptop there is no key combo or even a BIOS setting where you can 
disable the track pad, as some of you reasonably offered. So he pried open 
the keyboard a few inches, borrowed a tweezers, bent his hand backward at 
the wrist, and pulled the track pad's plug out of its socket.

Then he fastened down the keyboard cover, and that took care of the problem. 
A sighted person can still use a USB or Blue Tooth mouse, but that's a moot 
point, as I have a Dell desktop, too. Whatever. For better or worse, , in 
sickness and in health, until death us do part, this Acer laptop is mine, 
all mine.

And so it ends. Yes, soon we'll buy the little postwar house with the picket 
fence, have 2.5 children, and buy two mini vans and a driver to take them to 
soccer, unless their retinas are going south, too.

The End.