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Barb: Sure we'll still love you - even with typos! Funny thing, I've found this a 'typo goddess' who resides in this household and accompanies me to work everyday. Maybe she is related to yours. I've found she likes to: Make my space bar malfunction - sometimes 2 spaces at a time, sometimes none - or could this be because I dropped the keyboard on the floor last week? Choose another word other than the one I intended - and alas the spell-checker not knowing my intent fails to find these. Please, can someone invent an 'intuitive' spell checker??? Makes my index finger double-click the mouse sometimes when I really intended to single-click. Has made me hit the DELETE key when I didn't want to - and caused me to lose wonderful thoughts I'd typed and can't reconstruct. Hits the SEND key before I really should send a message. Has made me mis-direct email with embarassing results: I once sent an icq message intended for my daughter to my son - when I was complaining about something his wife did. Makes the keyboard foreign to my fingers at times, and finds all kinds of weird combinations to masquerade as 'words.' Makes my fingers tired after typing and retyping, so I say to heck with grammar, capital letters, etc., etc. Has made me wonder if I should just hand-write, but then at certain times of the day I can't read my own notes. What stranger came while I was unaware and dared to write on MY yellow legal pad!!! So I struggle along with this keyboard. At least I can tell what the letters are even if they sometimes are transposed - or worse. Since my dx, this 'typo goddess' seems to reside with me at all times anymore. . . and has caused amusement for co-workers, friends, and family. <sigh> If you need some levity (or frustration) in your life, I will happily pass her on to you. Anyone interested? :) Barb K (one of the other Barb's) -----Original Message----- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Barb_MSN Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 3:55 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Non-PD--- Typo Goddess Strikes Again Dear List--family.... I seem to make LOTS more typos and grammar-screw-ups when I type online after midnite (as I've been doing since my move last Nov.) In rereading the 3 or 4 messages I posted tonite (12:45 a.m.) I can see mistakes I never would've let slip by me in years past. This pisses me off - at myself 'cause I used to be a perfectionist (not in everything, mind ya, but definitely when I did public posting)