This and That

[susandennis]

Project #2 did not kick in... But, project #1 kicked up big time. Whew. But all is good.

And I got my swim on. Boy, did it feel good. I missed seeing the people - the sweet woman who can only come because she brings her altzheimer's husband with her so she can watch him while she works out - the woman who doesn't do classes but is nearly always there when I am doing much the same stuff - the woman who checks you in and takes your money... it was just fun to see them all. But mainly I missed the water and the way it makes me feel... I can stretch and move and feel so graceful.

And my new eye rocks. I can see the clock from the farthest part of the pool! I can read signs and see people's faces. It's fun. My good MP3 player was dead. (Turns out the battery was dead and is getting juiced up now.) But, I had my backup so all was saved.

I didn't stay too long - only 45 mins - cause I had work to do. But it was great anyway.

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My new recessed lighting has put my electrical capacity over the line, I'm afraid. Ameria's vacuum popped the breaker once. Last week, I had the A/C on and when I turned it on the lights flickered. Saturday night, it got really warm in here and I turned the A/C on and to mega cool. 10 mins later the breaker went - and the router and the modem and the TV and both TiVos...

So I sent a note to Sheri (the designer who hired the electrician and did the planning). She's all over it and is meeting the electrician here later in the week. It's cooler this week. I want to get a fix in before it gets hot and while it's still on the mind of Sheri an Walker (the electrician).

Meanwhile I just saw that there is a power outage in the neighborhood which just misses us. Whew.

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I love this laptop (Asus Ux31) but something about the way I type and some of the keyboard function are not getting along that well. I'm a touch typist and pretty fast so I'll be typing along only paying attention to what I want to get down and I'll hit something that throws the cursor up 4 graphs or highlights a giant load of text and then deletes it. I've tried lots of tests in hopes of figuring out where/when I'm going wrong in hopes of disabling that handy function. So far no good. I just hope there is not a finite number of times I'm allowed to user ctrl+z

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Baseball tonight is the angels... so 7 pm.

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[howeird]

but something about the way I type and some of the keyboard function are not getting along that well.
This is why I sent mine back, and I am not a touch typist. I do type about 110 wpm, if you don't count the 97 typos. But I have to watch the keys most of the time, so I know when it's me and when it's the machine.

A pity - it's a fast, pretty, solidly-built PC with a super-sharp display.

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Is there still a pool at Rainier Beach? My folks used to go there, down the block from RBHS, at what was then (and may still be) the middle school. It would be an easy light rail trip - about a 2-block walk from the Rainier Beach station.

[susandennis]

Oh! I did not think of the light rail!

Yes, Ranier Beach has or actually will have a fabulous pool. It is being rebuilt from the ground up. I've seen the renderings and pictures of the progress and it's going to be amazing. But it's not going to be amazing until 2013. I can't wait!

For me the keyboard issue isn't a showstopper (obviously) but I can see how it might be. I just love the rest of it too much.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted to hear that your surgery was so successful!

[zimzat.livejournal.com]

Is it possible your hand is gliding against the touchpad? I've run into that problem numerous times in the past. There was a nifty feature on one of my laptops where the touchpad was disabled within so many milliseconds of keys being typed, to prevent the mouse from accidentally moving the cursor or doing other wonky things. I think they've done away with that feature, though, because there are legitimate reasons to type and mouse at the same time (games, for instance).

[susandennis]

I have had that on some laptops (I keep the touch pad turned off on my work computer) but I don't think that's it... however, maybe I'd better pay closer attention to that possibility... hmmm thanks!

[susandennis]

Actually, you might well have cracked the case!! I went and looked at the touch pad details and found something called Asus Smart Detector which does pretty much what you describe and is configurable.

I configured it to cover most of the touchpad. My fingers are crossed. Thanks!

[zimzat.livejournal.com]

Here's to hoping that was an easy solution. *crosses fingers* :)