Wokiebear in love

Wokiebear (whose real name I don't know!) published this on depoman:

I just finished a two-day RT depo with my Etch-A-Sketch Pink (yes, I got the pink, but only because I wanted the pink to honor my Big Sis, who died of breast cancer...she was my mom, too, because we have a large family). I checked my untranslates. It was .9 percent. I am estatic. I'm off and running. I came home feeling like I hadn't even written all day. First day was 230 pgs, second was just 120 pgs. I had absolutely no pain at all in my hands. I actually felt refreshed. I couldn't believe it when I checked my untrans. I used the macros from the writer, too. Makes me feel joyful to write all over again. I even felt like it helped me be faster in writing. I did made one other tweak on the job to the vowel U as I felt I was missing it some where I didn't realize that before. And I've only been actively using the LS on the job for just a month.

What did I do? I didn't immediately start writing and practicing from a job. I came in every night and practiced on it with fingerdrills to make my mind acclimate to the different feel. Why my mind? Because my fingers already knew where to go...my mind didn't with the new didactics. So I trained my mind first w/out pushing it. THEN I practiced on a depo I already had. THEN after a week of intensive training, took it with me. I also feel I am indebted to the reporters who posted their config file because I used one of those and just had to only tweak it minutely. Why at night? I reserve daytime for work...nighttime is my me time for whatever and I could practice w/out interruption from anyone. I don't feel like I'm skating on ice anymore. It feels comfortable and at home. I did use a support for my wrists at first so I would not put them on the keys or "rest" them on the home keys until I felt at ease w/out the supports. I used a gel mouse pad I have -- had to use two, one for each side. Once I started taking my pearl out on the job, I never looked back and tried to go back and forth to my Mira so that my brain would gel into place.

I'm going to actually save money on this pearl because I won't have to have (yet) that expensive Support contract with Stenograph.

Oh, what a pearl....(pink pearl)!