…Jane, bless her, got out in the darkish smalls of 5AM and lugged our garbage to the curb through 6″ of snow, while I was sleeping away.<\/p>\n
You have to read her account of Shu-shu’s stunt last night. We laughed, OMG, we laughed.<\/p>\n
And Dragon and I are getting along very well: using it means sessions of intense concentration, usually a couple of hours until my ears overheat. There are moments I have to stop and coax it to understand that there’s a diff between mani and money—to my ear, very, very different, no way you could mistake the two, but because it’s set for English, it’s reluctant to hear the accent on the second syllable, and didn’t pick up that one is mah and the other is muh—<\/p>\n
On the other hand, I was amazed that it picked up Bren and Cameron without my having to ‘train’ it — it just knew the words. <\/p>\n
And it is a lot easier on my fingers. <\/p>\n
I can also say that someone using it with a word processor like WordPerfect or Word is going to be a lot happier than someone using it for social media. The wp’s themselves have some settings that clean up the edges.<\/p>\n
I think I can recommend this technology as finally ready for prime time. Getting a good headset helps a lot—I used the free one provided and it hurt my ears after about 30 minutes. http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003VW41G8\/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 is the one I bought. Andrea brand. And it’s very comfortable: no pain, just a sense of ‘ok, my ears are officially too warm and I want a rest’…after a couple of hours. <\/p>\n
I spent many, many hours in the mandatory language lab at OU, using headsets that were probably military surplus. Not bad ones, but OMG, after a while your ears begin to protest. I wish they had one adjustment: the amount of pressure they exert on your ears. An earbud would be even nicer. But this set I have is mike and headset and the working time I can easily tolerate with it is about the limit at which my brain begins to go to mush in a writing session. Time then for a break.<\/p>\n
Because it is capable of filtering background noise, I can also keep my habit of watching telly while I write…it’s my white noise and colored lights. And I’ve done it since the days when I lived alone in a small house and wrote at a desk (the only chair in my living room that ever wore out) and the only way I was going to keep in touch with the world was watching telly WHILE at the keyboard…<\/p>\n
Now I do knock off at 5 pm. Even on birthdays and Christmas and New Years I usually get in a few hours. But I am relieved to say my fingers are feeling a lot less stressed. Just because I CAN type over 100 wpm doesn’t mean I want to do that for hours every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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