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What did you do this week (and weekend)?

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As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!

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    autumn
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    We went on a four-night trip to western NC to a cabin that had a fireplace and fully fenced in yard. I got a ton of work done on my crochet project (baby blanket for my SIL), played video games,...
    • We went on a four-night trip to western NC to a cabin that had a fireplace and fully fenced in yard. I got a ton of work done on my crochet project (baby blanket for my SIL), played video games, and watched a bunch of TV.
    • We put an offer in on a house, it was accepted, so I guess we’re going to be moving, barring anything too expensive in the inspection on Monday. This is my first home-buying experience!
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    1. rosco
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      Congrats!!! First time home buying is a huge step! I'll keep my fingers crossed nothing pops up during the inspection.

      Congrats!!! First time home buying is a huge step! I'll keep my fingers crossed nothing pops up during the inspection.

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    hydrachia
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    I got a new keyboard, and I've decided to try to switch to a non QWERTY layout. I didn't spend that much time looking into the different layouts, and I just chose the workman layout which looked...

    I got a new keyboard, and I've decided to try to switch to a non QWERTY layout. I didn't spend that much time looking into the different layouts, and I just chose the workman layout which looked interesting. I've been practicing for about a week now, and I've mostly got touch typing down, though I still miss some keys reasonably frequently. At this point I can type well enough for it to be workable, though I'm still much slower than I was with QWERTY.

    Does anyone have experiences with learning a new keyboard layout and roughly how long it takes? (If you have, what resources did you use / do you know of?) I'm reasonably confident that I'll end up learning it well eventually, but it seems like it's going to take a while.

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      1. hydrachia
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        Thanks for the advice! It's been going reasonably well so far, though I probably haven't going about it with the best strategies. I ended up with workman on my desktop and qwerty on my laptop,...

        Thanks for the advice!

        It's been going reasonably well so far, though I probably haven't going about it with the best strategies. I ended up with workman on my desktop and qwerty on my laptop, which has been useful to make sure that I can still type on both, but it can get confusing at times (though that seems like it's improving with practice).

        I was using keybr with some customization before, but monkeytype looks much nicer! (Finding typing practice programs that actually let you use backspace is annoyingly difficult.)

        One thing that I hadn't considered would be that much of an issue is video games - the default keybindings are all designed for qwerty and rebinding them all in every game is a pain, so it's easier to just switch back to qwerty while in the game.

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    2. autumn
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      Back maybe 20 years ago, I learned Dvorak pretty well. I think it took 2-3 months to get back up to speed, but I eventually dropped it because I had to be able to use public computers...

      Back maybe 20 years ago, I learned Dvorak pretty well. I think it took 2-3 months to get back up to speed, but I eventually dropped it because I had to be able to use public computers occasionally. My brain couldn’t hold the two layouts in tandem.

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