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I didn’t even finish the second Harry Potter movie. I got tired of watching it about half way through. I’ll still finish tomorrow, but watching it felt like reading Cliff Notes missing all the good parts. There are still cool parts in the movie and the movie great for visuals but I’d choose the book over the movie any day of the week.

Ragnarok Online just finished downloading all of updates while I was typing this. I’ll be checking it out shortly. That’s all for now.

I have all of the keys memorized, now I just need to practice. It took less then 24 hours to learn. So far I like it a lot.

I don’t have much to talk about right now. School was good this morning. I’m downloading the free Ragnarok Online game that rcebrnr told me about and I’ll check that out later. I’m about to eat some cold pizza and watch the Harry Potter movie.

I guess I’ll have to wait for a day or 2 before I start writing blogs with the Dvorak key setup. Surprisingly I’m having no trouble switching from one style to the other. The program I posted about in my previous post keeps a log of how long you’ve spent practicing and I haven’t even logged an hour yet. I think after about two or three hours of use I’ll be able to use it casually. When typing in the program I was getting about 20 WPM, but it is a lot more comfortable typing with it (from my limited use).

I haven’t blogged about this, but I’ve been seeing a blind accupuncturist. Today I had my last visit with him, he said I’m back to be healthy again. I just need to continue doing the exercises he taught me. I also got to see him use his computer today. I was suprised that the monitor was on while he was using it. When you looked at the monitor it just had a bunch of garbled text. He had one of those little braille pad things that I first saw on Sneakers. It was pretty neat seeing him use it (but for what I didn’t know).

I had a pizza from Paizza hut for dinner today and I realized I eat those just for filler. They don’t really taste good (or bad). They just make you not hungry.

Finished Harry Potter book 2, started book 3 and will watch the movie tomorrow (part 2).

On to dreamland.

The first day of school went quite well. I got there about a half hour early, a head teacher (or something) gave me the books I’ll be using, then over an hour and a half went by before I started teaching. I got lucky, no kids crying, throwing up or anything like that. Their level of English is very basic right now and for some it was the first time learning English so I’m started with the “What’s your name”‘s and “My name is”‘s plus some other simple vocabulary. I think this should turn out being a really nice job. I have to be there at 8, start teaching at 9, take a break or 2 (I thought 2 was 1 too many, but I won’t complain) and finish at 11. Pretty nice hours I say.

This might be my last qwerty blog. From reading other people’s experiences I think I’m making the switch to Dvorak. I’ll probably use both for a little while, but I’ll struggle through my blogs with Dvorak from now on. I’ve actually gotten ok using qwerty too. Hmmm… Maybe I’ll do a speed test to see where I stand now. Then I can compare it to Dvorak when I get comfortable with it.

[imagine a pause while I find a website to check my Words Per Minute]

I found a crappy one and looked for something better but didn’t find anything. The score I got was a little over 30 WPM (BLAZIN’!!)

I’ll be posting again tonight so I’ll finish here.

We played two games of Scrabble at game club today and I think won both (official rules need to be checked). In the first I was helped by my miltown spelling of acquited (notice the missing T for those whose spelling matches my own). By the time someone noticed we were too far into the game to change it. We also played Clue. That was the time I’ve played that game and I’m really impressed at how fun it is. I think if I played it a couple more times I’d have a full proof system worked out for beating it, but it’d still be fun.

I start the new job tomorrow, I’ll post about how that goes tomorrow. This morning I had to help I Ping move some stuff from her companies office to a warehouse. After I did that I chilled at home for a spell and went to game club. I want to get to bed early tonight, so I’ll finish off here.

‘Till tomorrow.

I just threw my digital camera batteries on the charger (after many a month of non-use), so fresh pic’s should be on the way.