Britt's Blog

My laptop is filthy. I drag it around every waking minute (it seems), I eat while I use it, and I probably don’t wash my hands enough. As a result, my computer has all kinds of grime all over it and crumbs in the keyboard. (And probably swine flu virus too.)

My “A” key got a crumb stuck under it and wasn’t working right. (My students will be happy to know that this mishap occurred after I finished entering grades for the semester—otherwise I would have been unable to give a grade higher than a B+.)

Anyway, I popped off the key to remove the obstruction (my, there’s a lot of cat hair under there, too) and as always I forgot how to correctly reassemble the little white plastic interlocking ring-lever doohickies underneath to get the key back on.

It is deeply annoying that there isn’t a good tutorial out there on how to do it, but at least this one had a (underexposed, blurry) picture that is clear enough to see how it was all supposed to go. Reattaching a key on a MacBook Pro.

I post it here in preparation for the next crumbectomy.