jaywallace1

For When The Bird Drops.

Writer. Youtube: snowcapfilms. | Letterboxd: jaywallace1 | Bandcamp: snowcapmultimedia | Into Vaporwave, Poetry, Motorcycles, Movies.


I've been a Mac user for more than a decade by this point... oh god, it'll be two decades in three years. Anyway, I've noticed that my typing skills have declined significantly since I stopped writing monthly articles for the local music magazine during COVID, and have taken to try to improve it again. This is only helped by a new recent purchase: an MX Mechanical Mini Keyboard made by Logitech. Don't ask me what type of switches are in it, because I don't know. What I do know is that the Apple keyboards I've been using since my first Macbook Pro in 2010 and my iMac 4k in 2019 feel flimsy and are not satisfying to use. Hell, I can type faster on my ancient iPad Mini using the touchscreen. This thing, found at Best Buy for $150, is hefty and clicky and clacky and fun to type on. Why not?

I'm a hunt-and-peck doofus who has to look at the keyboard while I'm typing to do anything, baring websites and passwords that are just muscle memory at this point. I downloaded the Typist app, which is pretty good, but is revealing just how awful I am at typing. I didn't retain any typing skills I learned in high school so it's impossible for me to type quickly unless I am in the zone or just staring down at the keyboard. My current (lack of) skills are also hampered by the middle finger on my right hand having to be bandaged up because my fingertip is split open from the cold dry air in Colorado and the cheap leather gloves I wear at work that just absorb what little oil/moisture are in my skin. So I can touch type with only nine fingers, and am beseeched by errors due to my middle finger that's hurting and has no feeling, unless I hunt-and-peck. Love it.

My Saturday is calm and uneventful as I write this. A strawberry lemonade Spindrift sits before me on my now clean desk. I'm irritated by the pain in my right middle finger and the persistent errors that come from it. I do like this keyboard (This was a "Hey, I got my tax return" impulse buy alongside a pretty good $50 Sony voice recorder.) but I feel like I an absolute caveman trying to type on this thing. So, I press on. Uh, type on. Clack on, whatever.


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