lera-92-07 diary

petak, 11.09.2009.

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so... I'm getting somewhat proficient at morse code... well, better than I was a year ago. A year ago I ordered a 2 CD set of morse code lessons. Since then it's been kind of on and off... but recently I have plowed through it with more enthusiasm, and I know all the letters of the alphabet except for Q, Y, X, and Z. Well, I know Q and Y, but I keep mixing them up.It's been a great thing for me recently, what with me having no social life whatsoever... it's a great distraction from that, better than eating in the Ikea cafeteria, or people-watching in Square One. It's a great thing to take your mind off of stuff, because, as daunting as it is, sooner or later, the more you listen to the CD, it actually starts to sink in, and you make progress. Like, the milestone I have now reached, is while I'm walking from the GO train to work, I look at something around me, and I mentally spell out its name in morse code to myself, or I spell out things on street signs or whatever. It's fabulous, it's another language, and I have mostly learned it. The first day I did that easily, it was like a little breathless eureka moment and it was awesome.And that's not all... I think I'm at around 5 words per minute, which is like 15 km/h. Slow. My next challenge will be to get practice MP3s on the net, which are rated at speeds up to around 40 wpm, which starts to sound like a human modem. If I can get 15 wpm, fabulous. That seems to be the higher level of ham radio license in canada anyhow, who cares about ever achieving 40 wpm. I will be happy if I can decipher the morse code automated IDs that the local repeaters beep out periodically during the day (on my scanner). Morse code is geeky? Faaaahhhhhkkkk... who cares. I have a ham radio license anyhow to go with it. One of my favourite things about playing the piano was practising scales... same thing - enough repetition, the skills start to develop, and it's satisfying.And! I am teaching one of my co-workers to knit. I started her off relatively hard, with a 2x2 rib for a scarf. I figured, we're all grownups, why not? Flipping gears between knitting and purling is still messing her up, but she seems to be getting it all right. I'm showing her how to recover from mistakes too... as a kid, I learned one thing at a time, but as adults, we need lots of things to keep our interest level and motivation high.

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