maju

I was woken out of a deep sleep by the cat batting something around near/under my bed at about 2 am. Grrr. This morning I discovered a pingpong ball near the bed, so I promptly stashed it in a basket full of musical instruments (which the girls never use any more) where the cat will never find it. Violet was also woken up by the cat in the early hours and had trouble going back to sleep, so she was not happy this morning.

Sometime during the last couple of days when Violet has been using my computer to write in a Google document, the " and @ keys somehow got reversed. I meant to try to fix it yesterday but I forgot, so last night when she was trying to write and found it was still happening she took the computer to her father to see if he could do something about it, as I was brushing my teeth at the time. For some reason, up until then the problem had not been happening for me, but after my son in law thought he'd fixed it, it had spread to my ongoing Google doc in which I'm writing right now. I was very annoyed by this, but after I'd done a fair amount of poking around on the internet to try to find some help I decided to just try changing the computer's keyboard language. All the information I had found had suggested that to fix this problem you need to switch *to* US English, but my computer was already set to US English so I changed it to Australian English and viola! The problem disappeared. (I checked both in Violet's document and in mine.)