The the past week or so, maybe longer, the wheel on mouse of the desktop PC was acting up. When you scrolled down it would jump and jitter, sometimes huge chunks of pages. Scrolling up it was fine…so Saturday we went to Staples and bought a new mouse. We opted for a corded mouse for a couple of reasons, its eco-friendly (no dead batteries filling the landfills) and cheap at twenty bucks. As a bonus it had a PS2 adapter which I used so as to free up a USB port and now I don’t have to crawl under the desk and swap out the cables for the web cam or scanner depending on which one I need at the moment.
Today while sitting on the screened porch listening to the FRS getting their hats handed to them 7-1 by the Tampa Devil Rays the cordless mouse on the laptop quit working. 6 weeks and kaput. The cute little receiver which barely sticks out of the USB port was HOT to the touch. Just to be sure I swapped the AA battery out of the mouse with a different one, I tried the receiver part in another port on the laptop (I had to pull it out with a pair of pliers it was so hot) and tried it on the desktop PC and it still didn’t work. Guess I’m going back to Staples tomorrow.
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