Some more of my shots from the harbour today. Neil sent me some of his (much better) photos but I made them the wrong size, so I am waiting for him to send them again sometime.
Meanwhile, Monday started off as planned, I was up early, I got straight out of bed and straight up that mountain, to the quarry anyway, and then back down again; all at a fast pace/slight jog, just to test the knees. Then I got to my desk and only stopped for lunch and here I am doing Tuesday’s post and it’s 14.30 and I’ve not written any boko* yet. But as soon as this is done…
Now, talking of writing, here’s a thing. My typing is appalling as I have never learned to type correctly, I can type quickly though and, when not copying, I can probably manage around 70 words a minute maybe 80. But only about 50% of them will be correct. My fingers (I use four on one hand and three on the other) bump into two keys at once, very orften, and so I end up with words such as ‘orften’ and ‘managew’ instread of ‘often and ‘manage.’ In some cases I simply get the word wrong and many readers will no doubt be aware, so I will put ‘no’ instead of ‘on’ and ‘if’ instead of ‘of’ or even ‘bog’ instead of ‘blog.’ There is nothing I can do about those automatically speaking, but there is something I can do about the ones where my fingers have learned the wrong fingering, as a musician would say, and so repeatedly type the wrong word, or hit the wrong keys.
I use the AutoCorrect function in Word to change certain words for me. There are some common ones, ‘teh’ for ‘the’ and so on. I have some more specific ones though such as ‘hen’ (not a word I use often) changes to ‘then’, the rationale being that when I read through I will pick up on: ‘we went to the shops hen we went home’ and ‘I saw a then in the chicken coup’, and it’s quicker to do things this way around than it is to go back and make changes the other way.
There are some words that I type consistently incorrectly that I can’t really change, such as ‘nto’ for not, because I also type ‘nto’ for into sometimes, so I have to leave those and manually change them later.
But all this did give me an idea for how you can get back at someone in your office, someone you really don’t like and want to wind up. When they are next out of the office and have left their Word programme open, slip in, get the autocorrect box open and add in your favourite auto corrects. Here are some ideas for you: for Dear Sir change to Dear Madam, for Dear Madam change to Dear Madman (and see how long it takes for them to figure it out). For Yours faithfully you could change to Yours Marianne Faithfully and for Yours sincerely you could try Yours snivelly.
And so on, I am sure you can come up with many of your own. And, remember, the more you get to put in, the longer it will take for them to track them down and change them back. But when you get caught out, don’t tell anyone it was me who told you! And as for the boko* above; this didn’t show up as an incorrect word in my Word document so I checked the dictionary and could not find it at all. I have no idea how Word comes to think this is a real word, it’s not in my auto-change as ‘accepted’ and so I’ve gone and added it; for boko read book.
