Nothing, really

After a large struggle, my Dvorak typing is up to the chronic level of 30 words a minute. And that's only using the home row. My attempt at learning the keyboard layout has been rather severely hampered by Windows 98 - I've demolished my laptop's keyboard so that I can still use a standard keyboard on my main computer, and trying to install drivers for anything in Win 98 has made me appreciate XP even more. I don't know why I was so reluctant to change operating systems now - convincing the laptop to stay in either keyboard layout and not switch at random to one of its own choosing is difficult in itself.

I was planning to use "Mavis Beacon 4", a typing tutor that I discovered in a bookcase, but despite it proudly saying that it teaches Dvorak the lessons seemed to be absent from it. In its place, there was a phantom layout option, which crashed when it was touched. I even went as far as opening the lesson database separately and switching round the Dvorak and Qwerty lessons, but the database was made with an earlier version of Access and reduced in size by about eight times when it was saved out again. The program, not expecting this, crashed again, as is characteristic of the entire operating system.

There are 26 days to go now until Whitney moves to Scotland. Before, having a long distance relationship wasn't exactly easy but it was something that I could accept. In the last month until we don't have to deal with it any more, though, coping with it has suddenly become the most difficult thing ever. I will have to occupy myself with getting the modsite finished.