Yep....... (RE: Of Styli and Men...)

All of you knew this was coming, didn't you?

Less than a week, and I manage to lose the stylus on the Surface Pro.

Hell, I knew it was coming.  I told myself over and over again,"You're going to lose it!"

Bu it survived around 5 days of being toted between my hotel room and the office...  No problems.  I was super careful.  I babied it...

Yeah.  I lost it.

Somewhere, between my hotel room, carrying stuff to the car, the 6 hours of drive time, and walking through my yard to my house, I lost it.

I'm pissed.

It's the one truly abysmal bit of design on this system.  Why, in God's name, did you not put some sort of clip on the damned thing?  A not very strong magnet holding this thing that just begs to be snagged and pulled free from the system...  Oh, GENIUS!

Anyway, I honestly have no one else but myself to blame.  (Believe me, I've tried to find someone else...)

I went on a crazy spree this evening.  I've ordered an original replacement, but only after ordering the first straight capacitive stylus I came across.  Then, while looking at some other examples on eBay, I got to thinking...Hmmm...

An excavative trip down through the laptop layers, and out comes my old HP TC1100...  Pop out the stylus (this is the damned RIGHT way to stow a stylus), and...

It works.  Perfectly.  And it's actually a sight more comfortable to use than the original Microsoft-supplied model, owing to its larger girth.  Alas, I swore in my past OCD-ness, I'd ordered a spare for the HP.  But...No...  Can't find it.  Replacement tips, yes.  Spare, no...  (A trip back to eBay netted me a couple old clunker TC1100 styli for sale.  Not worried about worn tips, as I do have spares for those.  Ha ha...)

So, I guess I'll use the TC1100 stylus while I'm home, and then drop by Best Buy back out where I'm working to grab a generic.  It's going to be while before I get back home and get the ones I ordered.

I am going to have to stop by the Computer-Shop-Across-the-River to see about the T23 and the XPS M2010 tomorrow.  Wonder if they might happen to have an odd capacitive stylus loose about..?