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

  

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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).

• Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
• Since July 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for six product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Please check out our press page to see some of the news coverage of our work, linked here.

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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:

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).

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