Spent tonight popping all the keys (except one) off my keyboard and deep cleaning the whole thing. It took about two hours and it was a good use of my time, if I do say so myself.

For real, it's SO satisfying to use a fully cleaned keyboard.

I am so bad at getting the keys back on

though my keyboard is probably very overdue for a cleaning

ʟᴇɢᴀʟʟʏ sᴏᴜᴘ : I took a photo of my keyboard before I started, which proved essential because SO MANY of the keys' letters are totally worn off.... I ended up matching wear patterns to the photo like a friggin' detective but I DID IT.

I think it's been like a YEAR since I got this keyboard though and I'd mostly like... wiped it clean or blown it out? Which does NOT get all the cat hair out, let me tell you.

I turn mine upside down and spank it, but unfortunately, that definitely doesn't get all the dust and stuff out

YEAH I've done that before too... but I still had a LOT of packed-in kitty fluff to pull out with tweezers before I dunked each key in the bath.

(The bath was a bowl of warm, soapy water--not an actual bath tub. To be clearn.)

.... I wanted to add that holy heck but my fingers hurt, except that thanks to the internet, the exact phrase that my brain produced was "my fingies hurt" and I HATE that.