ALPHA-NUMERIC is a term that I can BLAME FOR WHO I AM!!
I am currently now over the age of 60 years old. If I ever finish writing, it will no doubt be labeled a DICTIONARY of my life. Today as I move my weary fingers over a keyboard my mind can easily move to those days in 1968 when I was 17 years old and just just a teenager. I could write a book series on the reasons why I waited until a senior in high school to finally sign up for a typing class in those Dark Ages before the computer. The one thing about us humans and creativity it does provide jobs for historians.
There were times in my life that a museum of typewriters could have been something I held qualifications to oversee. From my very earliest childhood memories my maternal grandparents each had their own different kinds of typewriters. Script type once had an actual typewriter devoted to that concept in contrast to the old business typewriters. Script typewriters could find similarity to your own inhome computer and not the one you had to use at the office to write those more important things like court papers for filing, and you had to impress people with neatness. This age of choosing your own font on a computer has a history, trust me. My grandmother's typewriter only typed letter that looked just like the following:
Computers today may be in most homes, but in the 1960's it was not my personal experience that everyone had a typewriter in their house, WHY? Pen factories got more business back then, AND put out workers in pencil factories. Try learning to type when you are 17-18 years old starring at the above letters. Not the learning experience I would wish on anyone, even those worst enemies. Then they would have a good excuse in my own personal opinion for why they are the way the are. I would then UNDERSTAND them.
Try using "I learned how to type on a script typewriter" as your personal excuse for screwing up. Haven't tried blaming that one for the way I am, but it would make sense at the age of 60. Learning eye and finger coordination with an old manual script typewriter would definitely go under the C's. My "C" section of my Library of Life is large. The word "C'hallenge (CHALLENGE) will be found in that section. The word CHALLENGE then has it's own little dictionary. ORGANIZING THE LIBRARY OF LIFE HAS NOT BEEN EASY!!!
The term BRAIN STRAIN has a very expanded meaning for me personally. I just heard the admonish of KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID in 1983 and took it too heart making my own filing cabinet of LIFE. Don't give me words that are made up LETTERS like you find on your keyboard. This is the RESULT - the HUGE LIBRARY OF MY LIFE IN ALPHA ORDER AND NUMERIC in relation to ages and dates. BRAIN PROGRAMING by life situations should NOT be minimized!!
I heard this simple little saying: KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID when I was 34 years old back in 1984. I was then drowning in non-simple and feeling stupid that I was drowning, back in the Dark Ages when 1 computer could fill a whole ROOM that had to be temperature controlled. I can see MANY advantages to living in a vacuum with nothing going on around you, would make for an easier path to gain self-understanding. But then, this vacuum would have the problem of supplying me air, water, food and hopefully be temperature controlled given I don't like extremes in either hot or cold. Then I would be blaming the vacuum for my problems. But then I would have the advantage that my Library of Life just have a "P" reference section called "P" and only "P"ROBLEMS and my whining about the whole temerature control problem with my vacumn.
