When you just look back

In the past few months, I’ve been either working (on my full-time job) or working on my MBA assignments. I think things are (gradually) getting frustrating for me, as I wasn’t doing a lot of activities, of which the primary goal is to simply have fun.

When I was browsing my RSS feeds, I read about an USB-interfaced (and MIDI featured) musical keyboard, with which you can connect to a Mac and use it on Garageband. Playing a musical instrument was one of the things I wanted to do, especially after my study. I had to ask myself whether it was good time for me to really go for an instrument or I should simply wait until the end of my study program. After a while, I decided to go for one, instead of keep asking myself when would be the best time to do so.

Fortunately, the one I wanted to have was still available on the market. A couple of weeks later, it was on my table. After a while, I found myself not having enough time for (literally) playing with this new toy, but the fact that I have a musical instrument on my hand and I could play it whenever I want to, already made me feel happy enough (at least for the time being).

Another toy I had in mind was yet another keyboard. But this one is a computer-based keyboard (meaning you’d type with it). The one I was thinking was a Bluetooth featured wireless keyboard from the Apple. I already have several few (external) keyboards on my office desk, and I thought this could be my next one, partially because I’m using the same type of the keyboard in my apartment.

As it turned out, this keyboard could be paired with both my iPhone and iPad, as well as my MacBook Pro. Although my original intention was to use it in my office, I slowly start thinking about using it somewhere else, such as in the subway (U-Bahn, in German) while I commute to the office and back to my apartment (in fact, this post is written in the train).

It actually takes some courage for me to open my bowser and start typing my story on my blog. Perhaps my blog-posting frequency would be increased as I start writing in my “sliced” time(s).

..And after I started my new keyboard in my office, it sadly turned out that the (functional) layout was quite different from a normal Windows keyboards (namely, the positions of Alt and Command keys), and that there is no way to switch those keys with other keyboards in use. I’ll probably keep using this new toy as an extra input device on my iPad (or iPhone, if needed).