gotta back up the credit card goal...wowsers everything is on that these days.  :(   I attempted cleaning my keys...didn't work...I probably spent a good 40 min with q-tips and alcohol, just too much got spilled under them.  And being it's a laptop I think I"m going to try to get someone that knows what they are doing to do a thourough cleaning and maybe some general maintenence as well.  Bye bye money...I wish I had some connections there.  Ah well.  Gotta do what I gotta do. Well, it's late...so I am going to head off to bed.  Almost 3am.  I have plans to probably head out this afternoon with an old friend who is down in the area visiting...so I hope to get up at half decent time and get a shower and all that.    Just wanted to check in for a few min before I sign off for the night.  I think my entries are going to be shorter for awhile.  Either that or my fingers are going to get an extra workout...it takes a lot more pressure to put the keys down and then they don't really want to come back up.