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[fbhjr]

We saw my wife’s family twice this week, New Year’s day and Friday night.


Her aunt is really enjoying the iPad and doing OK with getting it to work. The main thing she wants to use it for is showing it off to the people at her pool in her retirement village. Whatever works for her.

Based on something ms_danson said last month about teaching herself to write in a different script, I’ve decided to try writing my notes at work in cursive instead of block letters.
This is the first time I’ve used cursive writing since high school. I admit I had to go back and see how some of the letters were made.
I’m not saying it is great hand writing, but it isn’t worse than what it was.

It might get better as I keep practicing. Maybe not. We’ll see.

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[blue-eye.livejournal.com]

I guess you normally print? I use cursive because it's quicker.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I have a long history of not writing well at all. That's one of the reasons I favor things with keyboards.

My mother once tried to improve my handwriting by making me copy the works of Shakespeare. She thought I'd lean Shakespeare and improve my writing at the same time.
The result is all Shakespeare sounds vaguely familiar to me, but not something that thrills me, and my hand writing didn't get much better.

in high school progress was made when one of the English teachers assigned an attractive teaching assistant to help me improve my writing.

It is one of those things I must practice to remain at all acceptable. And, I just don't.
But, the cursive is more fun. Maybe I'll write more.

[evrgreen.livejournal.com]

When I was in second or third grade, I got an award for the best penmanship in my class. Sadly, it has been going downhill since then. When I focus on it, I can write very clearly and some might say "pretty". But, so many years of typing on keyboards, and printing in block letters in lab notebooks and writing numbers/equations has left my cursive writing skills a mere shadow of their former selves, too.