The biggest steno news is that I have been using steno for real (voluntary) work! I have been producing captions for AXSChat.org :-). It has been wonderful to be using steno for something so real - real people, real deadlines! Each video is uploaded on a Tuesday morning (Adelaide time) and then a Twitter chat takes place in the early hours on Wednesday. Ideally, I will be captioning these videos by the end of each Tuesday to enable people who rely on captions to have access to the video before the Twitter chat. I have only managed that once so far - I am still significantly slower using steno than qwerty, so I compromised by captioning in steno for the first four hours and then using qwerty to finish off in time. When I did the whole thing in steno, it took me an entire week (working around my children - I only have Mondays and Tuesdays to myself until my youngest starts school next year).
Unfortunately, I had to skip captioning last week's video due to appointments on the Tuesday followed by a heavy cold that made it very difficult to catch up again. Then yesterday, I was over the worst of my cold (although still with no voice!) and we went roller-skating as a family. Right at the very end, I fell awkwardly and broke my ankle :-(. First broken bone I've ever had - it's curing me of my childhood jealousy for people with casts and crutches! I'm flat on my back in bed - the four hops required to reach our ensuite are very difficult - so I won't manage captioning this week, but hopefully I'll be up and about before too long.
At least it's given me plenty of free time to update my blog!
xo Ros
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