Here’s Evidence of How Much I Type… (plus a Special Request)

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Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)...


For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:

Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).


December 2, 2018

Well… if you follow the Lead Safe Mama website, you know I write A LOT.

Sometimes I write 10 or 15 articles in a day (if my kids are out of the way for an extended period of time and I have no distractions)! Usually, my articles are just two or three-pages long, but sometimes they are five, 10, or even 30 pages!

There are currently 1,409 pieces and pages here on the site!!!

What you may not know is that I also type close to 100 words per minute (with some typos, but I’m fast). That’s one of the reasons I am able to produce so much content!

As I was writing an article about kitty litter today, I took a look down at my keyboard. Luckily I was trained in traditional typing methods back in high school (c. 1985), so I actually don’t need to look at a keyboard to type and mostly don’t ever do so. If I did, I might get just a wee-bit depressed.

These are photos of my keyboard today:

Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)...

Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)...

E is basically “disappeared.”

A is gone, too.

N also gone.

S is on the way to being disappeared soon as well!

That’s how much I type. That’s how important a laptop is to the work I do.

As you can see from the screenshot below, I have a kind of crappy computer by modern standards. Also to note… it’s not even mine… my husband “loaned” it to me about two years ago and I have never even installed most of my stuff on it. I just got used to it for the website and social media (where my work helping families and answering questions about Lead lives). I haven’t had my own computer work station since I lost my non-profit (through the whole legal mess I have been in for the past three years).

Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)...
This is the “Get Info” screen for this laptop!

My husband got this five-year-old laptop a couple of years ago from a client (he fixes Mac computers for people, or at least he used to!). It was a “brick” completely non-functional. After helping the client recover her data and getting her up an running on a new machine, the client gave him this “brick” so he could try and resuscitate it.

My husband is a Mac magician. Together we were among the original members of the Apple Consultants Network when it was first founded. I have been a consultant working with Apple Computers since 1987, and my husband started working on Apple Computers in 1989.

As a result, he eventually got this “brick” back up-and-running.

In addition to the laptop being beat up, it also hosts the following other issues:

  • It only contains 128 GB of storage, which is almost filled up because of all the photos I take for this site.
  • It has a dead “audio out” port, so I cannot use it to show videos for the presentations I give.
  • The microphone also does not work, so I cannot film Facebook videos or any other kind of face-timing with people (like Skype consultations, etc.).
  • I also cannot install the current operating system because my drive is full, so that makes things run pretty sluggishly.

I share this with you today (as we head into the first night of Chanukah) just to put it out there for two reasons:

  1. I think it is really quite funny that I have totally worn off so many keys with my typing.
  2. If anyone has a newer/ better/ less beat up Mac laptop that they might want to donate to the cause (give to me for free OR give to me so I can pay them for it in six or 12 months, when I have some more funds available)… that would be very much appreciated by so many.

I would appreciate it.

My readers would appreciate it (because it will keep me publishing)!

My husband will appreciate t (because then I can give him back this old beat up, resuscitated laptop so he can have a laptop again)!

Thank you for thinking about it!

For good measure, here’s a link to my dream/ fantasy computer a fully configured brand new 15-inch MacBook Pro! (Linked here) But any computer is a step up from what I have and would be lovely!

Tamara Rubin
#LeadSafeMama

Evidence Of How Much I Type! (& a request)...

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2 Comments

  1. Have you ever tested computer mice, laptop keyboard keys, etc.? I’d be interested to know if the roller disk that I use my middle right finger to scroll up and down websites has any nasties in it, nevermind the left and right buttons. Also, the part of my laptop that my wrist rests on. There’s a sticker where my right wrist rests. I tried using the search bar on your website to look for “mouse” and “computer”, but I didn’t get what I was searching for. Should I bother mailing in a computer mouse to you, or do you think it likely doesn’t contain nasties on the outside?

  2. I have this same problem with wearing off the “ink” from several keys on my MacBook Air laptop.
    I was wondering if any lead of heavy metals in the keys? Have you ever tested?

    Thank you,
    Claire

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