My eye doctor suggested that I should use a larger monitor and key board for my writing which, of course, includes this blog. The new computer arrived yesterday and I am using it right now for the first time to write this blog.
So far it is being very nice to use but I had really hoped that I would suddenly, magically become a more competent typist. So far that is not happening. Thank goodness for spell checker. The closest I ever came to failing a class was when I took typing in high school, back in the bad old days when carbon paper was my nemesis.
This new monitor does have a lovely large screen, a 24 inch instead of my laptop's 13 inch. Thinking about this makes me laugh. I was in sixth grade when my father brought home our first television set. It was awesome, a Zenith brand 'portable' that sat on a table top and probably weighed at least fifty pounds. It had a 13 inch screen, black and white of course, and received three channels through an antenna on the roof. Flash Gordon, Captain Kangaroo, Gunsmoke, Saturday morning cartoons and more kept us enthralled.
Now I can watch a TV show on my computer, through the magic of split screen, while also blogging or answering emails or attending a Zoom meeting. I can do that all at once, but "new and improved?" I'm not so sure.
No comments:
Post a Comment