When Your Husband Speaks Fluent Keyboard

Marcus has been building custom keyboards for about six months now, which means I’ve been subjected to approximately 847 explanations about switch types, actuation forces, and something called “thock.” Today’s lecture was about the difference between Cherry MX Browns and Holy Pandas.

When Your Husband Speaks Fluent Keyboard

I tried. I really did. I nodded in all the right places. I asked follow-up questions like “So which one is clickier?” But somewhere around the discussion of tactile bumps versus linear switches, my brain just… left.

The evidence

You can actually see the moment I realized I had laundry to fold.

The man can explain the entire mechanical keyboard ecosystem with the passion of a TED talk speaker, but ask him where we keep the dish soap and he’s lost.

The retreat

This is the same person who took three weeks to notice I got my hair cut. But he knows the exact grams of force required to actuate a Gateron Yellow.

I love that he’s passionate about something. I love watching him get excited about his hobbies. I just wish his hobby was wine tasting or vacation planning instead of tiny plastic switches that all sound the same to me. Don’t tell him I said that.