Ow! (and some Blackpool pics...)

[cenea]

I’m sorry I’ve not been about much the last day or so and I am behind on so many emails and posts. My RSI has suddenly caught up with me, and so I am in huge amounts of pain - all of which I probably deserve. Ibuprofen is very much on the menu, however, so fic writing has been sadly delayed, but not, in any sense, cancelled!
Seeing as I can’t write

Comments

[uk_sef]

training the voice recognition on my new laptop
Now that's more what I call an annoying and nasty task. I suspect it would annoy me even after it's trained. I don't get on well with such things (including predictive text systems, automatic spell-checkers etc).

My hand pains interfere with drawing rather than with computer keyboard use though - and there can't plausibly be a replacement trainable compu-artist thing for manual work like that. So I've been plotting individual pixels on the screen instead of sketching on paper much. I never did get on well with a tablet interface.

[cenea]

It's not too bad, as I've been using various forms of voice software for some time - four years ago, I had no use in my hands at all for a bit. The trouble is that voice recognition is useless to me for creative writing, which is what I love most, I just have to type or handwrite for that - both of which cause pain!

Sorry to hear about your troubles - replicating drawing skills is surely even harder!

[uk_sef]

So are your hands worse again because you went out this summer to have fun digging? Or is it purely a typing type of strain injury?

[cenea]

It's not the digging. I think its just over-doing it and being lazy with voice recognotion over the last few months. Sadly, the thing I love the most - writing - is bad for me! I'm regretfully badly made :P

[uk_sef]

The internet is full of slightly "defective" people - ie those who have problems of one type or another with reality. As the only virtual space (given the absence of telepathy etc), it's where they will inevitably congregate - or at least aggregate - in greater numbers.

[cenea]

Hehe, yes. But the trouble with me is that it's interfacing with un-reality (i.e. the internet, and computers in general) that's causes me the most trouble ;)