One Mouse Down

I know, I've been blogging lightly lately—say that 10 times quickly—but not much has been happening, just doing whatever it is I do. This morning, however a distinct event occurred, so I rushed to the keyboard to tell the world. The mouse was acting funny: In effect, it was clicking on everything I moused over. The last straw came when I moused over the iTunes Store screen and, without meaning to, bought a song by the Jeff Hamilton Trio called "Juicy Lucy." Never heard of either, but before I knew it the little downloady wheel was spinning.

It's a weird feeling, buying a song by accident. It's kind of like one of those movies where you have a yuppie couple with the seemingly perfect life, everything buttoned down and in place, or maybe you have a curmudgeonly guy living alone, withdrawn and not really in touch with how sad he is, and then in either scenario some foster kids fall from the sky and end up in the household, underfoot and turning everything upside down, but in the end everyone finds out What It Really Means to Care. I don't know if I really care about the song "Juicy Lucy" at this point but who knows? Maybe by the end of the film.

So anyway, it's Apple's main mouse that they sell, with a tiny scroll ball and clickable on either side. I thought people should know about this possibility if they're using this type of mouse to do computer-assisted microsurgery, say, or monitoring the launch status of the missiles on a nuclear submarine. If you're using that Apple mouse you want to keep an eye on it.