Posts Tagged ‘bad vision’

Writing on a Plane

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I’m still adjusting to this keyboard.  Wait, nope.  It’s more I’m still adjusting to the mouse pad.  I keep hitting it while typing, and the cursor jumps around as a result.  The keyboard itself is fairly close to a standard keyboard with both shift keys and the enter key uncompromised.  It’s the home, end, and where the arrow keys are relative to the right shift and right control that are getting me.  I use Ctrl+Shift+Arrow Keys a ton while typing.  Kinda like how I use the backspace all the time.  Rare for me to get things out right the first time.  And my typing speed would be so much quicker if I could.

I set up the magnifier to follow the cursor which is working out really well.  Earlier I didn’t have the feature turned on, and I would be typing and typing and then the text would no longer be on the screen.  I’m still really jolty with moving about the screen when zoomed in.

There is one really inconvenient part about my awful vision.  (Okay, that’s a lie, there’s a lot of inconveniences.)  I am often amused at the thought that people must think I’m looking at what they’re reading or at their computer screen when in reality I’m just zoning out and can’t see a thing from such a distance.  On the flip side, with everything majorly enlarged on my computer screen, anyone with decent vision can read exactly what I’m writing.  Like now.  On the plane.  Folks down the aisle behind me can most likely see this just fine.

Gives me another reason for preferring the window seat.

Audition, Sleep, and My Eyes

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Well, my audition went pretty well. It’d been nice if I could have played that damn diminished chord correctly at least once, but that was just nerves.

Well, I’m looking forward to sleep. I’ve done a lot of that today. And I even had 7 1/2 hours of sleep last nite. Granted, I kept waking up every once in a while (don’t know why) and I’d be thinking full speed. I don’t even know what I was thinking about, just the fact that I was thinking, thinking. Then I’d fall back asleep shortly after waking. So, I’m not really sure how deeply I slept, since I was aware I woke up and that I was thinking, minus specifics. I slept in the car on the way home (about a three hour drive) and then took a half-hour nap before dinner.

And now I’m planning to go to sleep and it’s only 10:11 PM. Amazing. So, supposedly, I should be awake tomorrow. Right? Uh, right.

Regardless, I’ll be able to see well by 4th period. I’m going to the eye doctor’s during 3rd to pick up my new glasses and (overnight!) contacts. I’m excited. To be able to see up to par (my 20/40 version of par) for the first time in two years. Woot!

What a sad thing to be excited about. But, I do get overnight contacts. Which is the coolest thing I’ve ever had eye-wise. (Being turned yellow to look at the back of my eyes and having electrodes stuck on my eyes definitely don’t fall into the “cool” category. Though those two things are probably the most unusual things I’ve done eye-wise.)