We’ve got a little keyboard problem (Actually a “new” keyboard problem.) called the ‘invisible’ #6 (now that time the 6 appeared as it does about HALF THE TIME)
The rest of the time it drops out and you never notice it unless you’re specifically going back to find it. Grrrrr….Grinding the teeth makes no one happy except the dentist.
But perhaps we can work through it. I’ve cleaned it with air… finally gave up and tried a little 10/40… which made no difference except possibly now it will attract some dust and we WILL have a recurring problem.
The real problem is ME. I *never* took the time to take touch typing because it was so onry (and I’m not even sure about how you spell that since it’s a dialect of the West..) So I spell you as yoiu or something like it …. And stuff like that all the time.
With the old manual typewriters I just went back and “X”d it ouit (see there’s an ouit that snuck in there – and I let it stay) … it’s just irritating when you want to provide perfect copy and the perfect flees away.
I’m also going through the pangs of deciding (and coughing up the $$$) to utilize a ‘voice to text’ program that lets you just talk to the machine and it turns out 98% perfect text for you once you have mastered dictating to the machine and it knows how you sound.
I bought a pgm…but it did not work – or I did not know how to work it – and I mailed it back for a refund… there were additional compensations to be made and I did not know how to make them – which is a dangerous thing with a credit card OR a debit card… there you leave yourself open to be ‘cleaned out’ – and I’m getting older and tired(er) of correcting these *millions* of typing mistakes and the extra time it’s taking me now.
Seems like passing my 80th birthday cake has got something to do with it –even with the helpful typing corrector that makes simple corrections without even being asked. So maybe I’ll become a “whiz-bang” at getting things written.
But I’m going to give up now. Yesterday was a LONG and tiresome day – and it looks like we’re going to have another one later this month. Oh boy!
Thanks for joining in.
Cordially, IN HIM
Jack Buttram
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE STINK IS STILL HERE
Just a Minute: Forty eight years ago we had a picture of a little girl plucking the bloom of a flower on a black and white TV screen. In its background bloomed a huge nuclear fireball and explosion. It was paid for by the Democratic National Committee for their candidate Lyndon Baines Johnson in the summer of 1964 and run on all the major TV networks across the country. Its intent was to portray Senator Barry Goldwater as a radical and a war monger.
I saw it on TV again last night.
Originally it ran only one time but the smell of the twisted and unfairly mangled
Propaganda effort lingers to this day. Some things may not be unwound or undone. I lived through that campaign. It was a sad commentary on the quality of our news mechanism and indeed the smell and effect of that radicalism still lingers to this very day.
In having our election we need not repeat mistakes. Instead we learn from them – discarding the dishonorable.
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