A few folks have asked to see what jewelry I’ve been working on lately so I decided to inflict them on everyone rather than try to remember who all asked so I can email them individually.

So here you go….

These are all chainmail – made from lots of little rings that I weave together. I buy the rings instead of making my own like some folks do.

This is a choker made from enameled copper. It’s not really as dark a pink as it looks.

This is an enameled copper necklace and earring set. No findings yet.

This is the same set (basically) in sterling.

This is a sterling choker.

And this is a sterling set as well. The earrings for this set also match the choker above.

I do make other types of jewelry as well and might even get around to taking pictures of those as well.

My keyboard stickers arrived yesterday and I immediately set about applying them to the various keyboards I use. I’m actually a little surprised at the fact they make as much of a difference as they do.

They fit the various keyboards really well – I’m impressed.

I’m still having some interesting issues with a few letters – like ’s’. I have absolutely no idea why I’m still reaching for an s where there isn’t one now AND wasn’t one before either.

Maybe a wire is crossed somewhere?

Today is a little better again. I’m getting a tiny bit faster and I got to a huge 17 wpm while trying out a typing tutor program I found.

Very error prone though, which makes me not nearly as chatty as normal.

But I’m sticking to my guns and not flipping between the two.

I noticed today that it took me a tiny bit of time to consciously reset my mind to type when I sat down at my desk. I really wanted to just pound out a few words and (hopefully) shock myself with how fast I’d become overnight.

Right…

I may be deceiving myself but I think today was marginally better than yesterday.

But today also included an attempt to write some c# code. Talk about an exercise in frustration. The often used period and semi-colon were ever elusive and I wanted to scream after only a short time.

I gave up for the day when the urge to throw my keyboard down the stairs – a whole three lines later.

Still no keyboard stickers.

I don’t actually have my Dvorak keycaps yet but I went ahead and started the switch.

Today was officially day 1 of the great Dvorak journey. After a little while of getting the pc’s set up, I was off and … painfully pecking but mostly erasing.

I’ve already been tempted to give up because it has proven to be even more frustrating than I anticipated. But I know it’s a good long term investment, so I’m continuing to forge on.

My typing speed is about 10wpm from about 90wpm.

So far the lessons are:
1. Windows assigns language per instance as a default so I need to see if I can do a global default setting.
2. Punctuation is very hard to find.
3. Growling at it doesn’t help.