Oh gypsysailor, I was going to name you as someone I'd like to get to know better! Not romantically, you've made it clear on here that you have a wonderful marriage (lucky you!) but intellectually: even though we've disagreed often I like the way your mind works and you're one of the few who seems to be in my age group and to have had and are having an unusual interesting life, as have I.
Oh sob sob it's never to be, there's a basic incompatability .... I'm an incredibly fast typist, so fast sometimes computer screens can't keep with me, maybe because I learnt on a manual typewriter as a child ........ which means I'm having a meltdown trying to learn how to operate my new touch phone and laptop ....
Remember that book "Future Shock"? Do any other older people on here feel they're in that state far too often these days?
Talk about total incompatibility, often my computer goes to sleep between long words. Oops, wake up you silly machine.
The only class I regret dropping in high school, when I went on one of my adventures, is typing. Just never got back to it.
Well my dreams are totally dashed now ....... still, not the first time, I'll cope.
What really bugs me is that fast typing is a skill which has been very useful to me for .... do I want to type this? oh why not ...... more than 50 years and now the only place I can exercise is it on this desktop: on the laptop and even more so on my new infuriating touch phone, I'm like a child with clumsy fat fingers and no coordination whatsoever.
When I say useful, I mean both in my personal life as I'm also a fast thinker and talker and on a decent keyboard my fingers can keep up and during my years as a legal secretary and then law clerk I was always the fastest around in any office. Politically, I could produce inflammatory leaflets and flyers faster than anyone else in any collective I ever belonged to. I can still do fast and pointed letters to newspaper editors: in fact, I'm the leading letter in today's state newspaper, which was a great thing to wake up to early this morning.
Have fun whatever you're doing today gypsysailor and everyone else too, I'm in a good mood today
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Oh gypsysailor, I was going to name you as someone I'd like to get to know better! Not romantically, you've made it clear on here that you have a wonderful marriage (lucky you!) but intellectually: even though we've disagreed often I like the way your mind works and you're one of the few who seems to be in my age group and to have had and are having an unusual interesting life, as have I.
Oh sob sob it's never to be, there's a basic incompatability .... I'm an incredibly fast typist, so fast sometimes computer screens can't keep with me, maybe because I learnt on a manual typewriter as a child ........ which means I'm having a meltdown trying to learn how to operate my new touch phone and laptop ....
Remember that book "Future Shock"? Do any other older people on here feel they're in that state far too often these days?
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Talk about total incompatibility, often my computer goes to sleep between long words. Oops, wake up you silly machine.
The only class I regret dropping in high school, when I went on one of my adventures, is typing. Just never got back to it.
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Well my dreams are totally dashed now ....... still, not the first time, I'll cope.
What really bugs me is that fast typing is a skill which has been very useful to me for .... do I want to type this? oh why not ...... more than 50 years and now the only place I can exercise is it on this desktop: on the laptop and even more so on my new infuriating touch phone, I'm like a child with clumsy fat fingers and no coordination whatsoever.
When I say useful, I mean both in my personal life as I'm also a fast thinker and talker and on a decent keyboard my fingers can keep up and during my years as a legal secretary and then law clerk I was always the fastest around in any office. Politically, I could produce inflammatory leaflets and flyers faster than anyone else in any collective I ever belonged to. I can still do fast and pointed letters to newspaper editors: in fact, I'm the leading letter in today's state newspaper, which was a great thing to wake up to early this morning.
Have fun whatever you're doing today gypsysailor and everyone else too, I'm in a good mood today