Agreeable rise in the price of gold

A few years ago I bought some gold bullion and the present Brexit chaos seemed the best time to sell it. As a US citizen living overseas some investments are tricky to report or heavily taxed but bullion is basically just a capital asset that I can report on Schedule D so it seemed worth including among our investments. I have made a profit of around 25% which is pleasing.

Keyboard with separate keypad

The Cherry keyboard that I cleaned does seem to be working much better. The BakkerElkhuizen keyboard that I returned has a refund in progress and its replacement from a different eBay seller seems to work well. The seller did have difficulty providing the correct model number having apparently failed to discover it clearly printed on the keyboard's underside.^*

aldabra asked about keyboards for the left-handed and I can report that this latest BakkerElkhuizen keyboard came with a separate accessory: a numeric keypad that plugs into the main keyboard via an extensible cable such that it can be placed on one's chosen side of the keyboard!

The numeric keypad accessory is a curious thing. It can work standalone as a calculator and has a 00 key. It also has its own NumLock state, slightly imperfect in implementation: if one depresses numbers while its NumLock state does not match the main keyboard's then it toggles the keyboard's state just for a moment and mostly gets it right.

^*Update: Glancing again at eBay I see another seller making the same mistake, their text contradicting their photograph.

Healthful food for free

If I am flown long-haul with my children then I get extra salads to eat. Now we have university open days for applicants holding offers (where our younger goes as the guest of our elder child) I find that I also receive the fruit that came with the provided packed lunches. Today's haul includes an apple and a clementine. I came along to the previous open day so got my own cookies too; I wonder what I will harvest from next Saturday's.