I eat wires for breakfast
March 6th, 2002Toby is a bitch.
I've probably spent over $300 replacing things he's chewed through: Brad's mouse cord, Jaclyn's mouse cord, the power supply cord to my dell laptop, my digital studio headphones, about three DC power supplies, a couple ethernet cables, a CDROM to soundcard cable (I have no clue what those are called), a IDE cable, one of my mice. And now… I find out that he's chewed through the cord to my relatively expensive, USB, optical three-button plus scroll wheel trackball.
I've seen him do it. He bites and bites and bites as hard as he can and closes his eyes while he does it. I used to let him sit under my desk or on my monitor while I sat in front of the computer. Not any more.
This really pisses me off. I could understand him doing it if the wire was moving or wiggling like a toy (which explains why he went though so many mouse cords) but my trackball cord doesn't move because the trackball doesn't move. Grrrr.
So now I'm using a crappy, non-optical mouse without a mouse pad, and with barely enough room to move it which means I have to pick it up and move it to get more distance every time I want to go from one end of the screen to the other. It is very annoying and I am very displeased.
