I am sitting here typing on a new keyboard and looking into the depths of a 27 inch monitor and I don’t know how I feel about either. The keyboard feels a little small and the screen feels a little large. The irony is the keyboard is larger than my last and I should be better at typing on it but my natural hand position is further out than modern keyboards. I want a full full sized keyboard and a separate accounting block.
If I could have my hands roughly three to four inches apart everything would feel much better. Right now I have my hands running into each other and the keys feels a little small. I am able to type, as you can see and this keyboard is exactly the type I want. I think the issue is I learned to type on a typewriter and have longed to go back to those days. So I got that style of keyboard but it is shrunk down for modern computers.
The screen on the other hand. I feel like I am inside of it. It looms over me and it is tilted down with no way to un-tilt it. It is staring at me like it wishes to consume me. Pull me into its computer world and devour me. I am afraid of it. I should have measured my desk before buying a 27 inch monitor because it is standard.
New equipment can often feel imperfect even if it is an upgrade over old equipment because we get used to one way of working and then have to learn a new way. I want to feel and hear my fingers fly on the keys. I want to watch the words appear as if by magic on the screen, and right now that is starting to happen. Funny isn’t it.
This is my first longer writing with this new keyboard and the satisfying clicks of the keys are certainly satisfying, but I still wish I could use my natural hand position, and that the keyboard was tilted at a 45 degree angle. That would provide a little more comfort, and writing this sentence is how I learned about the legs on the back of the keyboard. Now watch my fingers fly.
I don’t have much else to say so I will end on this. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
David Huzzard Writes 