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…but I’m sure glad it does!  This is a wireless keypad that you would use with a laptop.  You just plug that little whosit into a USB port on the laptop, and voila!  You now have a numeric keypad just as there is on a regular desktop keypad!

Last night, I was once again trying to get Mike’s work laptop to connect to the DSL here at home.  I think I’m actually getting somewhere with this never-ending efort…now the laptop is picking up a strong signal from the modem/router that’s connected to my desktop.  Only thing is that it STILL won’t connect to the internet.  Gonna try to find out what I need to do to fix this.  So close, yet still so far…sigh!

Anyhoo, one of the most annoying things about working with the laptop is that it doesn’t have that numeric keypad on the side, only the numbers on top.  On my desktop, I always use the keypad when typing in numbers, to me, it’s so much easier and faster.  It’s very frustrating to not have it on the laptop.

As I said, I had no idea that something like this even existed. So, I wasn’t even looking for such a thing when I went to check out the weekly deals at Buy.com.  But when I saw it, on sale for about ten bucks, to boot…I had to go ahead and order it.  Normally these sell for about fifty bucks, but this one is refurbished, and I was able to order it at a huge saving.  I also got free shipping, too.

This isn’t just for my own convenience when I use the laptop.  Mike uses numbers a lot in his work, and this will make it easier for him, too.  This thing is very compact, he can keep it in one of the pockets in his laptop bag so it will always be handy.

Hey, for ten bucks, it’s hard to go wrong! :D