Fun with Dragon

Antonio Pedro

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3nio_Pedro 

I am really enjoying using the Dragon voice recognition software; it really is so much easier for me now, then wrestling with the keyboard.

Not sure what happened, but I managed to open the spell check, and did a check of my first sentence, at the end it said spell check finished, and I said okay and it shut spellchecker.

Really hope I manage to find out very soon, what the commands are so that I can happily navigate between applications.

Once I know the commands, it'll be even more fun using Dragon, I hadn't expected it to be so easy to dictate, I thought it would be inhibiting.

On the contrary it’s much easier; it lets my thoughts flow very easily which is good.

Mind you it has not all been plain sailing, as well as the couple of hours because the laptop crashed and I couldn't get started ages.

After trying for about an hour to get you started, finally called Richie, I did not want to disturb him before, because I knew he was cooking.

Richie brought the external hard disk and tried to start the laptop from that, it took half an hour before he got the option to start from the hard disk.

This was very worrying I really thought that was it and I was never going to get into the laptop again.

I'm so happy that Richie got it working again, it's now six o'clock but I don't care, and post is written 263 words written in 20 minutes not bad for a Dragon novice

Relaxed Thursday

Dianna, 1977.
Mimi Parent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Parent

Took it easy today, after being so very upset because of my hands, arms being so weak.

My laptop problems upset me even more; the thought of no computer, no internet, and no blog was not good.

As well as no connection to my dear blog friends, no connection with the world.

I need to feel like I can make a contribution, write my blog and share experiences with other people.


Amazing to think people in 147 countries read my blog and I can read many blogs around the world too.

What a nasty thought and worse what an unpleasant reality if I could not do that anymore.

I was so scared my laptop was ‘dying’ so worried I could not think, my mind went blank.

Then the message about disk space on D came up so I emptied it and problem solved.

That gave me a huge boost, feeling I could do something, could solve the problem.

Feeling I can make a difference, even a small one is so important right now for me.

Sunny Monday.

Marleen and Cyril.Sunny Monday.

After my physiotherapy session with Mathilde, I had an appointment with an adviser from the council.

From an organisation called Mozaak, she was here to have a look at the apartment and me, to see whether I qualified for airco.

She left after an hour; I am none the wiser what the decision will be, as she did not give me even the tiniest clue.

Really hope that the Mozaak will let me know as soon as possible what the answer will be, hopefully before it gets hot.

I shall have to wait and see, more patience, what an expert I have become in the last years, in being patient.

I even have to be patient with my laptop, which keeps freezing every time I try to do something.

Even just opening a mail or a word document or moving between both or scrolling up and down in my mailbox or word document.

Richie had a frustrating few hours trying to see what has caused these problems; he tried to make a backup of my profile.

This did not work out as the laptop kept freezing, so no backup, which was very annoying as Richie had spent ages trying.

He discovered a couple thousand old mails of mine, which I had long deleted but for some reason were still there.

I hope that we can sort this out, and I hope that it will start again tomorrow, my nightmare is that it won’t, horrible thought no laptop, no blog.