It's Just Too Cold

[rick_the_ogre]

It's supposed to warm up a bit starting tomorrow, which is a welcome break from the incredible cold of the last several days. I chose not to walk this morning, for the second day in a row, based strictly on the sub-zero temperature. This cannot go on.
It's Even Better When I Forget It's Coming

2:00. I glanced up from the work I was engaged in,

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[nodressrehersal]

I'm curious about the Dvorak layout and your typing. Did you learn on the traditional keyboard and relearn, or did you start with this layout? Also, do you type with all fingers, or fewer than all?

I'm wondering about kids who do so much texting and hunt-and-peck typing, if the Dvorak layout would be easier to learn on.

I'm too old a dog to teach a new trick to, but now I'm curious about my typing speed. Also, do you track it because you use it for your job, or because you like tracking it?

Answers to all your pertinent queries

[rick_the_ogre]

I'll take your questions in roughly reverse order:

• I'm tracking my speed because I'm a huge geek, and because I found a tool that would let me. Also, I was casting about for things to include on my notional "next" Mission101 list (even though I've got another sixteen months left to complete the one I'm working on now) and thought re-wiring my brain sounded like fun.
• In answer to the implied question--I am a "knowledge worker", identifiable by my girly-soft hands and my ability to go to lunch at whatever time I feel like it; so I spend all my working hours and a fair amount of my leisure time at a computer keyboard.
• I made the switch at 40, which is almost 300 in dog years. And, although it seemed for several months there that I would never again type with the same facility that I had had since I was . . . oh, I don't know, 16? . . . my speed really started to kick it up in the last couple of months.
• Dvorak would almost certainly be easier to learn on for first-timers, since all the vowels are conveniently located on the left-hand side of

Re: Answers to all your pertinent queries

[nodressrehersal]

Well thanks for humoring all my questions with such interesting answers.

Both my boys (17 & 22) took typing in school and spend a fair amount of time at the computer, but I'm not sure they type the traditional way that they learned. I can type fast the old fashioned way-QWERTY- without looking at the keyboard, but I'm absolutely going to download that program so I can measure my speed.