Dirty Keyboards & Locked Doors

Filed Under (News, Random Thoughts) by myjaxon on 19-05-2008

Ian freaked out Jesse and I yesterday. If you have been reading Ian’s site, then you’re aware that we’ve started a new sleep method; if you haven’t been, we’ve started putting Ian to bed using the Ferber Method (which is Cry It Out) to get him to go to sleep. Well, we laid him down about noon yesterday, and he didn’t like that, and he was sleeping by 12:30ish. About 1pm, I sent Jesse in to open the bedroom door so Ian could let us know when he was up. It was a simple thing to do…crack open the door enough so Ian could stick his hand out and open the door. What Jesse wasn’t expecting to find was a locked door. Ian had locked himself in the bedroom and we didn’t even know it could lock. There is nothing on the outside doorknob to indicate that it could even lock, so we had no way of getting into the room. Ian was still sleeping, so we were able to freak out about it on our own. We called Emergency Maintanence and they called us back pretty quickly. They talked with Jesse on the phone, trying to give us different ideas on how to get the door open until the guy could get here. Thankfully, we were able to get the door open, unfortunately, Ian had woken up 3-5 minutes before that. Either way, we got him out and they are suppose to show up this afternoon to change the lock so it doesn’t happen again.

In other things, I was watching the Colbert Report this afternoon and I saw them talking about an article from the BBC. They are talking about how a study found that computer keyboards can actually be dirtier than someone’s toilet.

Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.

Sadly, I can actually believe it too. I know my old keyboards could be quite…interesting.

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