I abandoned this blog a couple of years ago and I think that was partly through boredom, seeing that a fair bit of our world was still at peace then, and politics in Australia, and South Australia, were rather settled. In short the really wasn't anything to be grumpy about, outside or inside the family circle.
More likely, though, the literary hiatus developed from my typing standards having dropped from "just fair" to "lousy"! There's nothing that discourages literary flow more than having to correct at least one typo in every word.
I blame all deficiencies on either failing eyesight, lack of co-operation between brain and fingers, or the fact that laptop keyboards (and most of the desk-top PCs) don't fight back. Every keyboard I've had in the past four years at least has insisted on energising "CAPS/LOCK" if my little finger goes within two inches of it.It's been a long struggle, but here I am again!
A year or two ago I loaded a speech recognition program for my laptop. It seemed like a good idea, but the software wasn't then able to make much sense of my voice.
A month ago I updated the software (Dragon) and now we're getting on well (after a bit of dictate-orial tension), and I can now talk to my computer and get much better text with much less bad language.
But that's not all! Last week I sat my laptop up at the back of my desk, connected it to an additional monitor, and then installed a new and separate keyboard . That's such an improvement in itself that I've actually really and truly typed this post with my poor old Dragon left lamenting, and I've only had to correct about six words (so far). Next post will be dictated, and we'll see what we shall see.
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