I ordered the VITAC book. I had the bright idea to e-mail VITAC directly and see if they knew where I could get one, and someone e-mailed me back the next day saying I could call and order from them. It’s a good thing I had poked around the VITAC site a bit, because the e-mail simply came from the author of the book and had no subject! I discovered this morning that there are actually still three seats open in the Caption Masters class. I guess the other display was an error. So I might still be able to take that in July, and all the information in the VITAC book might be discussed in the class, but that’s all right. You can never have too many steno books, I guess.
Yesterday I was on depoman searching for posts about something or other, and I came across the suggestion that one should add dictionary entries from the machine to practice fingerspelling. And it’s a useful thing to be able to do, anyway. So I spent a good hour yesterday getting that all set up. I’m still trying to figure out my alphabets, though. I need to have a way to fingerspell in capital and lowercase in realtime and in the global window, so that’s four alphabets. I spent some time on it today and I think I have it worked out.
I got my two minutes together today, and I also managed to stack three words, although not on that final take. "Here and staying" came out as STKPHAOEURG. I got to record a drill exercise at 120, which is better than I’ve done for the past 2 days, but I also had to record one at 50. Apparently, I have a really, really hard time with "fr-" words, which is weird because FR is my brief for from, which I write all the time.
It’s really fun to be able to do things from the machine. After every take, I go back and write any mis-strokes five times, along with the words before and after them. It was always a hassle to take my hands off the machine to scroll down through the take, but now I don’t have to!
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