#40ish

[smananthamarie]

I make no promises...

But I miss this outlet, and may try to come back to this more...

So we look like this now:

I'm going to be 41 next week. *GULP* That feels so....uncomfortable to say.

My kid turned 4 in May and she's a real goofball

The Library I used to intern with...well I've been working there the last year and a half!

ANNNDDD if anyone out there still does WW ...you can find me on connect @ towandtheamazing .

It turns out my much of my consistency issues stem from ADHD....soooo lets hope the dopamine keeps on flowing ;)

[typhin-hoofbun]

Yes, I did! I'm about to turn 42, actually. So I had my first "actual touch typing" class in 9th grade, which would've been 1996-1997.

In elementary school (I went to a private school for grades 1-6), we had a "computer lab" class with Apple computers, especially the IIc and later the IIgs. We were not taught proper typing then, just things like LOGO, a brief bit on BASIC, and various programs/games like Word/Number Muncher, Carmen Sandiego, and Oregon Trail.

In middle school, there was very little in the way of "computer lab" courses available. I remember one which had an art program, and one of the kids found one of the demo images and claimed he did it himself because he figured nobody would know, I guess? (It was a minor animation based on that famous painting of a diner that Google tells me is named "Nighthawks" and was done in 1942 by Edward Hopper.)

In high school, I was told I could "pick an elective" by someone who was claiming it was to prepare me for the "college experience", but when I asked for the "most advanced computer class I could get" (because I had always been a total computer dork my entire life), I was put into the incomprehensible "KBD DOC PROC" or similar. Only to find out that stood for "Keyboarding and Document Processing", a fancy way of saying "typing". The first day, a flyer was passed out titled "Don't be afraid of the Mouse - It's not a real mouse, it can't bite you." I was internally screaming even before the teacher introduced the computer and uttered the line, "This TV-looking thing isn't a TV, it's called a mon-i-tor." So much for "most advanced".

In addition to typing tests, we also did basic "word processing" programs, but between it still being 1996 and it being public school, we were still using DOS-based programs. I forget which one exactly, I believe Microsoft Works was chosen though Lotus 1-2-3 was present. The next year, "Business Computer Applications" would switch to Windows 95 and use Word and the other programs in Office. And the remaining two years were basically the exact same class.

I hadn't been using touch typing, going into the class, but since I was already familiar with using computers, it was a thing I "knew" but didn't see the point of using (until I was actually forced to). The teacher, however, was someone who detested computers as a general rule. During the final exam, we were told to just type a passage from the book and "get as far as we can" in the allotted time. When I asked what to do if we finished, she met the question with a "This will never happen" scoff and went "Just start over, I guess." I was on my third pass when time ran out.

My senior year, I was up to roughly 80 WPM. I only continued to improve, especially when in early college. I was playing a website-based game (Pre-Flash, I think) that included a chat room where you could enter using your character's name. Since the game had a limited number of turns per day, they encouraged you to simply play multiple characters (as long as you didn't use them to funnel resources to one another to give yourself an unfair advantage). So I ended up in that chat room with anywhere from 3-5 characters at once in different windows. I'd keep up with multiple conversations, and that practice was probably the biggest leap in speed.

I haven't tested myself in a long time, though. So I don't know where I am anymore. ^_^;;

This is a subject that really interests me because I (28 years old) had computer classes in grade school where learning how to efficiently type was a big focus. As a result I have a very high WPM (words per minute) count and am an excellent touch typer.

However, I've heard that they started phasing out computer classes in a lot of schools because it's assumed that kids/teenagers already know how to use a computer in this day and age. But smartphones are more popular than computers now, and as result a lot of Gen Z/Gen Alpha kids are able to text very quickly but their typing skills aren't as good.

[vykodlak]

quick dorn inbetween playing

[elderwisp]

𝔩'𝔞𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔢𝔱 𝔩𝔞 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱

[suddenly-stickmin]

"Woah, it's really coming down." ___________

It's been raining a lot here lately, the clouds turn to this really nice sea-green color, so I wanted to make something inspired off of that! The music used here is "Learning Spy". I was listening to it while coloring n thought it suited the rain-vibes nicely.

[vlarelythere]

Hold the boi gently

[hballegro]

i present; my first viewing of MASH, heavily condensed

all said by me in a server with my friends where they give me a channel where only i speak, because i speak to much

feat; a snip from a real story about alan alda that my anthro professor told me [story happened around the time the movie The Aviator was in the casting stage]

[eruscreaminginthedistance]

Man, just realised that Feynriel is now pretty much guaranteed to not turn up in Veilguard, which was actually one of my biggest wants

[enden-k]

day 2 of "dont talk to youn about till" btw 👍

[aphidclan-clangen]

so....... when do we get to see the mountain of other kits from alder, titania, and pigeon.............................................

Never lol

[muse9915]

We love a fun g-string under boring work clothes…What colour should I get next?

Please reblog and follow to share the love!

[pngheavy]

[princedevitt]

Alright here are my darlings

[cricketclan]

because I'm curious does anyone have any little headcannons / voice claims they think might fit some of the cricketclan cats?

[mostlyghostlyy]

It's always "Dale would embarrass you this" or "Dale would embarrass you that" but what about "I openly talk shit about him when he's right next to me in public"

[aisling-saoirse]

Dry Bed, Monksville Reservoir, West Milford, NJ - Dec 7th 2024