ok so I noticed one pattern of my keys fucking up is like, the affected keys would sometimes refuse to type when shift was held down. That's been a factor since the start of this nightmae.

But tonight I noticed that for some reason they'd specically get finnicky if i tried to type right after the letter U. Like that seemed to set it off, like if I wanted to say UMPIRE in all caps, it'd give me trouble

So I popped open the U key and got rid of a noticeable little bit of shmutz and now its been normal so far?

like totally normal?

I wonder if when I had been fucking around with my keys trying to swap mechanisms.... fucking with the U key is what gave me those six days of total normalcy. like SOMETHING had to have happened to make it stop wigging out for so long.