Today's News and Weather Report

[la_samtyr]

Well, so far we have missed the worst of the storms, though that could change at any time. (I keep reminding myself of this because otherwise it's too easy to think no storms will come this way.) The snow we did get last week was not too bad, though most local schools were closed Thursday and Friday. We've had a little bit more since then but nothing major. Yesterday a lot of it melted off but today was too cold to do much melting.

Writing continues but slowly. Saturday I got a wireless mouse and I am working on my laptop now, which isn't too bad -- or at least it wouldn't be, if I could keep the cursor from jumping around all over and cutting into the wrong sentences/paragraphs. Nothing is worse than typing along only to discover that half the sentence has gone elsewhere. I am sure it is because I keep hitting the wrong keys on the laptop keyboard but unfortunately, I will just have to shut up and deal. but -- one of the pluses is that I now have spell-check again! :) [Because yes, even though spell-check is supposedly 'on' for my desktop, it isn't registering properly. Go me.] I'm also trying to get back in the overall mood I was in before my desktop decided on the latest tantrum. But there is progress -- just not as much as I had hoped for. And of course I am getting all sorts of ideas for everything but the story I am supposed to be working on. ::dramatic sigh::

One thing I do wish I had was a quick way to add in various names and other words from Tolkien to the dictionary section. All of the umlauts and other accents are hard to add properly. The umlauts are easy to spot but with names like Cirdan and Celebrian, I have a hard time being sure if the 'i' has an accent or not. And yes, I know they do but honestly? it doesn't always look like it.

Ok, time for me to switch computers again and see what sort of progress I can make .

Ttyl!

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

My text tends to jump around on my laptop too.I've never found out why.

For accents ect, I just paste one of my stories, which features names I use often such as Eowyn(with accent) into Word then use the spell checker and add all the names to to dictionary when it attempts to correct them.

I also set auto correct to change none accented names to accented ones. I type Eowyn and Word automatically adds the accent.

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew why the cursor seems to be so 'floaty' on the laptop. The worst of it is that I never seem able to figure out what *might* be causing it. I'm hoping that a computer course can help with that.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

If you ever find out,please let me know!
Just googled and found this
http://ask-a-geek.com/2011/03/when-i-type-with-my-laptop-the-cursor-keeps-jumping-around-and-i-overwrite-things-ive-already-written-what-is-going-on/

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the link! That really did help quite a bit although I never have figured out how to turn the internal mouse or keyboard completely off.