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Hey, are you a mouse person? Yeah, I didn't bring it today. I have to say, I am so addicted to my

mouse, my red Microsoft mouse. I have a confession. I got into the office today and I realized they

didn't have the little dongle for some reason the USB

dongle. I thought about using a track pad all day and the thought just gave me so much

pause and frustration that I went home and got my dogle. And it was probably it's about a half

an hour, 15 minutes each way.

And I was just sitting there kicking myself the entire way.

But it's amazing how just like this, you know, decades old technology is something that I'm so

dependent on still, still.

Yeah, I feel like I could get away with track pad in a pinch.

You wouldn't go home.

I probably would not have retreated to go get the mouse.

But I get it.

Every day I use one, but I would not make a special trip to get one.

I could have done it, and I have done it in the past, but it has made me so grumpy by the end of the day to be using a trackpad because I just find it unwieldy.

It's like using, you know, like a piece of spaghetti to try and point at something.

You know, it's like, I get it.

I understand why people are okay with track pads.

It's just not me.

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