Holli, wow. Your last sentence brought the tears to my eyes. It seems to me that this sums it up perfectly.
...I have a manual typewriter tucked away, too.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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Katerina Bee - Apr 30, 2004 7:08:55 am PDT #4337 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
deborah grabien - Apr 30, 2004 7:36:52 am PDT #4338 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Ah, Return of the Underwoods....
erikaj - Apr 30, 2004 8:09:04 am PDT #4339 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't...my fingers are not strong enough and I'm Typo Queen...I do miss the productive-sounding click though.
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2004 8:13:47 am PDT #4340 of 10001
brillig
I've got an idea for a drabble theme--the first time you really appreciated music, be it rock/pop/classical/the blues, whatever.
(Yes, I'm listening to some music, and it's made me thoughtful)
Katerina Bee - Apr 30, 2004 9:05:39 am PDT #4341 of 10001
Herding cats for fun
I have fond memories of learning how to type on Grandpa Stanley's old gray steel Royal typewriter. I had to hold my hands at shoulder level and build up some speed or I couldn't hit the keys hard enough. Good times, good times. Then I had to learn how not to pound the crap out of today's more sensitive keyboards.
Beverly - Apr 30, 2004 12:13:54 pm PDT #4342 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I never mastered a manual, but I tore up jack on an IBM Selectric. Come the apocalypse, it's a rock and a...harder rock for me, I guess, when the paper runs out.
Well, I know how to make quill pens, and I have beaucoodles of dip pen and extra nibs, and I know how to make ink. I'll betcha I could learn to make paper, too. Faced with the rock option, smelly papermaking seems the better way. Less toe-injury, too, from dropping documents.
Ginger - Apr 30, 2004 12:43:45 pm PDT #4343 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I learned to type on a Royal Standard, and spent four years on my student newspaper and my first year as a reporter pounding out hundreds of stories on Royal Standards. I saw one in a thrift store a while back, and I could barely push the keys. I still have two manual typewriters around here somewhere, just in case of the end of civilization as we know it. I need to put by a supply of ribbons.
erikaj - Apr 30, 2004 12:55:09 pm PDT #4344 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
If the world ends, will somebody come take my dictation?
Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2004 1:03:30 pm PDT #4345 of 10001
brillig
A Smith-Corona portable lives under my desk. It needs a good cleaning. It's kind of an icon. Where it is, is my home.
Nearly every job I've gotten can be traced back to a Secretarial Typing course I took in high school. IBM Selectrics, those honking big beasts. First day of class, first instructions. "Turn on the machines". Big whirr of fans. "Hit the Return button." The guy sitting behind me does, and the carriage return flies off the machine onto the floor. He stares at it, then looks at the teacher.
"I should just drop this class now, right?"
Astarte - Apr 30, 2004 1:10:23 pm PDT #4346 of 10001
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
BWAH!