I also learned to type back in '79 on a manual typewriter. I think I got up to 45 wpm. Now I can type faster, but my error rate has all gone to heck (thanks to computers).

My accuracy is kind of for crap, so typewriters (and temp agency typing tests) are still my nemeses. Hooray for auto-correct.

I used to continually try and learn shorthand--and fail miserably.

I'm not sure when I got to the point of being able to type usefully without looking at the keyboard--probably university. It wasn't that required for the programming I'd done up to then, because it was so damned slow. Even now I usually do still look at the screen--I'm not good enough to be able to spend all my time looking at the source of what I might be transcribing.

Problem with touch-typing is when people think they're upgrading keyboards. Half-size backspace key on this one, plus the insert/home/page up being a row lower is annoying. My sister's laptop has a numeric keypad. Confusifying.

Apparently, when cats rule the world they will ride around on pigs....

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Oh, once I had a temp job that involved editing documents in Word. My typing speed was slower than the other temps, but I more or less kept up because I knew and used a lot of Word and Windows keyboard shortcuts for editing.

I am sleepy and cranky and having annoying conversations, and I can't tell if they are just annoying because I'm cranky. Feh.

That is a cat on a pig.

I have a head ache.

I don't want to type anymore.

I am Jesse.

Shit I did not say: To Mac's therapist regarding getting evaluation appts "Yes, I know this will take a long time, stop telling me to be patient. I do not fucking feel like being patient!"

I am getting sicker as the day goes on. This does not bode well for my week.

I just gave my (former) minion a barely-cryptic pep talk, so that made me feel a little better.