That title describes so much.
Last weekend 7 of us took a weekend trip to Las Vegas for Beau’s 40th birthday and for March Madness (college basketball tournament). We were there for 3 calendar days but it felt like about five or six days because we were up about 20 hours out of each day.
It is now 4 calendar days after my return and I think I have finally recovered from the sleep deprivation. It sure was fun though to be able to do that.
Next stop? Disneyland in May. Pretty much the same thing but with a slightly different target audience (very slight).
Then I also don’t know how many days it has been since I switched to Dvorak, something like 15 or so? Today I peaked at about 40 words per minute but a more accurate assessment is more like 33. I still make a lot of mistakes and sometimes have to pause for a couple seconds to “gather” myself for the next word.
I think I am going to be good at this though.
blief 
Kind of like having a newborn baby in the house. You don’t know what day it is or how long you’ve been up, but you know you are absolutely exhausted!
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That’s every day for me (although Miranda’s 4 months now).
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That’s getting pretty fast on the Dvorak? Did you glue the letters to the keys? Your previous post made me want to do the same, but I don’t think I want to try unless the keys have the Dvorak letters glued to them.
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No, I am doing it without any crutch (as it were). I think it would definitely help to have that help especially for some of the ones giving me trouble and things like colons, greater-thans, and question marks to name a few.
Also, recall that the first time I tried this I lasted for about 3 weeks before it was obviously too frustratingly slow. When I picked it up again this time I was just about exactly where I left off.
So add a modified 21 days to my total number of days in usage.
AND my mistake rate is very high…but it has stayed the same, about 8-10 mistakes per minute.
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Vegas was indeed fun. I don’t think that I have recovered from my sleep deprivation however. Of course I have not had two kids to condition me to operating on little sleep. I am hoping to catch up on my sleep this weekend. I am on-call though so I am hoping for no 3 a.m. calls.
Have fun in Disneyland!
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I used Dvorak for a couple of years at work, but only for entering my timeslips. Then one day I accidentally closed my timeslips program prematurely and restarted it in Qwerty. I thought I could type just one entry in Qwerty but soon discovered that I had to look at the keyboard to find the keys. Yet, if I opened any other application, Qwerty was just fine and Dvorak was impossible.
I know it was totally a mental thing, but it was really weird!
I have since stopped using my timeslips program and so went my Dvorak usage. I hope it isn’t too much trouble to learn again.
I never had troubles with finding the keys except for the odd ones like you mentioned: +_ /? are all difficult to remember and find. I think I kept a keyboard layout on paper nearby for the first two weeks.
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