dagosa–I don’t text. The reason I have keyboard skills is that my parents forced me to take a typing class in the summer when I was in high school. I hated going to class, but later I appreciated the skill. I practiced on the typewriter we had at home–an Underwood #5 that my dad had purchased many years before as a used typewriter when a college was updating its equipment. That typewriter is sitting on my workbench today and I’ve been told it is a real collector’s item. I have problems bending over and getting up and down. I stained the deck on my house a week ago and being on my knees and getting up and down really did me in. I am undergoing tests next week to see if I can participate in an adult physical fitness program. If my joints are going to ache, I am going to give them something to ache about.
chunkyazian–I used LaTex on the math papers I wrote. However, in the recent papers I did in computer science I found the special symbols in Microsoft Word sufficient for what I was doing.
As for shifting gears, I haven’t owned a manual transmission since I sold a 1948 Dodge that I owned back in 1989. I did have to drive the 1995 Ford Mustang with a 5 speed manual that belongs to my son and his wife. Shifting gears was easy–once you learn it you never forget. However, the car sat too low for this old geezer to be comfortable. Do I like modern convenieces? You bet I do. Can I adapt to them? Well, its getting a little more difficult to learn new tricks at age 70.