the other day i had a young German lad staying at our house ... i say young he was 23 but everything is relative when it is the day before your birthday ... and as i typed that i realised that tomorrow that makes him half my age ... doncha just hate the young :)
anyway i digress ... at one point he showed me something on the computer and asked if he could check his emails ... i sat across the room chatting while he answered a few emails ... and i got so jealous ... he just effortlessly touch typed ... really fast and really accurately ... it really really annoyed me
i can type quite fast with two fingers and i figured that must mean i know the keyboard but don't know how to use all my fingers ... i have a nice flat laptop keyboard ... maybe just maybe i can learn to do that ... it would be so useful ... i could do so much so much quicker ... obviously it would be the same old nonsense i was typing but i would do it in less time
so ... i ordered Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing version 16 ... and i am going to try and learn ... begging the question ... can you teach this particular old dog some new tricks Mavis? ... i
we shall see
naturally from the point of view of this blog it makes negligible difference to the reader ... but productivity might improve ... errors could be less ... and i will have added a skill to my set
RSI here we come
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A certain David person gave me a fre mavis CD teach yourslf do da because I felt the same, I wanted to learn to do it proeprly, letetrs in the right order etc...but the Cd turned out to eb cracked right across the middle..as uselss as Piglet's burst balloon.....................
"as uselss as Piglet's burst balloon..." now that's not an expression you hear everyday!
As for touch typing, I so know what you mean Steve. Let me know if the Mavis method works, I might be tempted myself.
it is 22, ey!
the german lad.
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