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Cookies are bad for your laptop.
I'm eating a Christmas cookie, and a crumb fell on the touchpad of the laptop. I dab it with my finger to pick it up, and now my touchpad doesn't work. Restart. Still doesn't work. It does have an amber light in the upper left, so I don't think it is broken. I dug out the traveling laptop, the one I use in hotels because there's nothing personal on it, and google "Disable touchpad". Turns out if I tap the upper left corner of the touchpad, as one does as there is a crumb there, it disables the touchpad. Tapping it twice re-enables it. I've had this laptop 3 or 4 years, never knew that.
Earlier, I was attempting to book a hotel room so that we can visit the granddaughter for her birthday. The hotel's website was acting up and I was unable to reserve a room, but at one point a price came up less than what I normally get. So last night, I tried again, their website was acting normally. I copied the url and opened it in a private window. In private windows, the browser can't read your existing cookies. The lesser rate came up again. "Holiday rate" it said, even though we aren't booking until mid January. I was able to book the room at the lesser rate. I tried again for a second stay, we're going to Chicago in February, but it didn't work. Maybe the hidden promotion only lasted until the end of January. But, in the future, I'm going to book in a private window just to see what happens.
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