WORLD WITHOUT E

I thought I was going mad. How could I mislay such an important thing? I had it last month and it was in its usual location during March, April and May too. How can I possibly fill in my diary without utilising its ubiquity in our dictionary? Any consonant I could do without, but without this tiny chap, this most common of all, I was struggling, truly I was. My ring digit is drawn towards a gaping chasm to W’s starboard and R’s port (using nautical words as my only option). I am told, by our IT wizards, that Alt-101 (with Num Lock on) is a solution; it sounds hard work, though.