Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Aug 13, 2021 12:55:30 pm PDT #8448 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I think it's going to be two every week, which good news/bad news....

I could switch mousing hands easy enough, but never could write well with my left hand.

Do righties usually mouse with their right hands? I think I started using a mouse when I was temping and, as a lefty, it wasn't worth rearranging things. It does mean I can write and mouse at the same time! Just one more way lefties have to adapt to the right-centric world!


-t - Aug 13, 2021 1:13:24 pm PDT #8449 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I've gotten so used to the trackpad in the middle of the laptop I don't remember how I mouse. I think it's on the right. I'm super awkward when I try to do anything with my left hand, but I did learn to sweep left-handed because (so the theory goes) my great-grandmother was left-handed and she taught my grandmother and my mother how to sweep and mom taught me. I think there was some other random sporty thing that I didn't even realize had a dominant hand that I do left-handed but I don't remember what it was.


EpicTangent - Aug 13, 2021 2:01:28 pm PDT #8450 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I have nerve damage (Erb's Palsy, from birth) in my right shoulder, so I've become left-handed for some things that I assume I would have been right handed for. I still write right (though I can write left, because it was a goal in middle school; it's painfully slow and not as neat), but for everything else, I kinda have to try it and discover which way feels correct.


Trudy Booth - Aug 13, 2021 2:05:49 pm PDT #8451 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

My grandfather was a lefty, but the nuns tied his arm to his chair so he wouldn't use it. The end result was he used his right hand for anything he learned at school (writing) and his left for anything he learned at home (using a knife). This included sports - he was a righty batter but a lefty golfer.


EpicTangent - Aug 13, 2021 2:31:35 pm PDT #8452 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

And I play guitar lefty (well, "play"). Even though my right hand/arm is strong enough, reaching over the body of the guitar to strum or pick is just not an angle I can do, for whatever reason. But reaching up to the frets, no problem. So, Paul McCartney, the Muppets, and me - that there is some illustrious company.


Sheryl - Aug 13, 2021 2:44:31 pm PDT #8453 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

Tomorrow we hit the road and head to CT to visit my parents. Let's see how that goes....


EpicTangent - Aug 13, 2021 2:51:22 pm PDT #8454 of 30000
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Driving? Yikes! Good luck!


Laura - Aug 13, 2021 5:52:42 pm PDT #8455 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.

My grandfather was a lefty, but the nuns tied his arm to his chair so he wouldn't use it.

My mom assumed she was supposed to be left handed because she did everything left handed except writing. Yep, nuns and she was born in 1921. Her handwriting was awful.

Have a good road trip Sheryl. We leave in the morning for NY, but with 3 animals and no child. Animals are fairly easy to keep entertained on the road.

I am a bad Buffista! I had dinner with Pix tonight and we just talked and ate and didn't think to take pictures. I hang my head in shame. It was nonetheless pure delight to spend the time with her.


meara - Aug 13, 2021 11:07:06 pm PDT #8456 of 30000

Aww yay dinner together Laura!

I went to a friend’s for an evening bbq thing which was great and I even met a few new people, but now my throat hurts a little/is v dry from being outside in the smoke. Yuck.


Theodosia - Aug 14, 2021 9:27:07 am PDT #8457 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

I taught myself to mouse Lefty so that I could take notes with my right hand. My left eye is dominant which means that my brain is cross-wired in some fashion.