Subj : Re: Daryl update To : DARYL STOUT From : NANCY BACKUS Date : Tue Sep 10 2019 22:26:00 -=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 09-04-19 17:45 <=- Replying from the Pond, 10 Sept at about 10:28pm... NB>> So I've been hearing... the Bahamas are being hit hard, and now NB>> they are saying that he'll take a hard right away from the coast, NB>> so an oblique hit rather than straight on... But a slow moving, NB>> very wide storm... not nice at all... DS> There's practically nothing left of some of the Bahamas. :( Two of the islands, anyway... Some of them weren't badly hit, thankfully... And the storm dissipated as it went up the coast, so it wasn't as bad as it might have been... But indeed a monster storm while it lasted.... NB>> Perhaps our keyboards are older and therefore built better... all NB>> the keys are still quite visiible on my keyboard... and I'm using NB>> it a lot... ;) DS> I had bought some keyboard covers at one time, but they have become DS> "abused and torn". I need to order some new ones from Amazon. Never used keyboard covers... I suppose that they might keep things a little cleaner.... ;) NB>> I've become somewhat of a touch typist, now that I've been typing NB>> echo etc messages for these many years... When I did take a NB>> (mandatory) typing class in high school, I did pretty well, until NB>> the teacher noticed that I was looking at the keyboard while I NB>> typed... which, it turns out, was NOT the idea... oh, well... NB>> She put a piece of paper over the keyboard so that I couldn't see NB>> the keys any more, and that was the end of my competency.... But NB>> years later, when I ended up having to type in the dark sometimes, NB>> somehow my fingers learned approximately where the keys are.... and NB>> on a computer, in a nice text editor, it's easy enough to fix the NB>> typos on the fly... theoretically, at least, and assuming one sees NB>> them as they happen... DS> At least I am not like the setup where a blonde is at the DS> computer...there's white-out liquid paper all over the monitor. [snort] Neither am I... DS>> That's what I did in basic band...looked at the keys on the DS>> xylophone instead of at the music. Understandable.... getting so that one can read the music and find the keys without looking does allow one to play more difficult music, but sometimes one has to memorize the music so that one CAN watch what the hands are doing... DS>> I still have a classic Story And Clark spinet piano here at my home, DS>> but I'm sure it's out of tune now. I haven't played it in years, and DS>> can't get to it in the front room, for all the clutter. One of these days, maybe you'll get enough clutter cleared to get to it... ;) NB>> Ride the wave... and remember the good memories of her... :) DS> That's all I can do. Too bad there are too many vacation red DS> flags...I would've loved to have taken some time off from everything. Maybe things will settle out some and you'll be able to do so after all, eventually.... :) ttyl neb .... Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn't do again. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.20 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5 * Origin: Fido Since 1991 | QWK by Web | BBS.FIDOSYSOP.ORG (1:123/140) .