Luke’s Notebook

The subject translates into “Now I know my ABCs.” More on that later.

This Saturday started pretty early, as I had an 8:30 appointment to visit an attorney’s house in Belleville, where he wanted me to troubleshoot some problems he was having with his computer.

After working a couple of hours there, I stopped by my Aunt Mary and Uncle Tom’s house, to take a look at their computer. Aunt Mary had wanted me to come over to do a little bit of maintenance on it.

I ended up running a few different adware/spyware scans, I cleaned up some of the obsolete or unnecessary startup programs, and then I started a defrag(mentation) on the hard drive.

This afternoon, I spent a few hours working on the steno machine, learning more about court reporting. I’m happy to say that I now know the entire alphabet on the initial (left) side of the keyboard! It goes as follows:

A (A)

PW (B)

KR (C)

TK (D)

E (E)

TP (F)

TKPH (G)

H (H)

EU (I)

SKWR (J)

K (K)

HR (L)

PH (M)

TPH (N)

O (O)

P (P)

KW (Q)

R (R)

S (S)

T (T)

U (U)

SR (V)

W (W)

KP (X)

KWR (Y)

S* (Z)

It sounds confusing, and it really is initially. But now it makes sense, and I’m memorizing more and more! It’s actually kind of fun to learn this!