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April 2, 2006

New Flat Screen–I Can See the Words!!!

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 9:20 am

Should I Have Let the MSM Provide Tools?

I guess when you’re going blind, you don’t really notice, especially when dyslexia runs in the family. Still it was getting hard to miss the fact that I was correcting mistakes over and over. Then my editor–yes, I have an editor–was finding even more. I had started to think of my writing as chili–better on the second day.

Cash flow can be a bit of a problem, especially when a most deserving son is wowwing them at an expensive school called Georgetown. Laptop blogging was my only answer–that and squinting–until I knew I was doing harm to myself and to my brand. Credibility means a lot to this writer. How could I promote my blog, my business, and my brand, when I preach one thing and deliver another?

All of you have been most gracious and forgiving of the repeated repeated repeated and mispelled misspelled words that have been the bane of my writing–your reading–existence. Alas, I was looking like what Tom Glocer and Trevor Butterworth would call a “citizen journalist.” Ew. I lacked the tools for these over-used eyes to see the words. Perhaps I should have spoken to Tom and Trevor about their suggestion that the mainstream media provide tools and editors? Hmmmm. No.

New Computer, New Flat Screen

Instead, waited and waited until this past week when–my tax return check arrived and THEN within what was a matter of minutes a new desktop with a wonderful flatscreen display arrived in my office. And . . .

My God! I Can Actually See the Words!!!

My thoughts on why this took so long

Don’t be me. Spend the penny and save your brand. Not the other way around.

Personal Branding logo

I finally followed my own branding advice. At last, I have fixed the problem. In my opinion, far later than I should have. As my friend, Nancy, often reminds me, “Liz, sometimes you’re so fast, and sometimes you are sooooo slooooow.”

My apologies to everyone who has read through the errors and skipped the multiple corrected posts in their feeds. Hopefully, this new purchase make my visual weakness a little closer to irrelevant. You should also know that transitioning computers is incredibly easier and way less painful than it was a mere six months ago.

BIG CHESHIRE CAT GRIN!!!

I’m thinking of taking a typing class next. Do you think that might be a good idea?

Smiles,
ME “Liz” Strauss

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4 Comments to “New Flat Screen–I Can See the Words!!!”

  1. April 2nd, 2006 at 10:04 am
    Mike said

    Congrats on the new rig !

    I have trouble with seeing a laptop, so I stick with my 19″ CRT’s.

    Typing sucks, as I can only use about 3 or 4 fingers to do so and I have a brother with almost total dyslexia and I struggle, on bad days, with only a slight case. Usually, I only have to reread each post/article/comment 3 times to get it almost perfect.

    Make up for lost time and brand the hell out of yourself !

  2. April 2nd, 2006 at 10:07 am
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Mike!

    Happy Daylight Savings. I have about four posts going. I don’t want to knock everyone over, but they’re going to be some fun ones.

    Yeah, I’ve read some posts seven times on that darn laptop and still not got them where they should be. Paper didn’t help much either, by the time I got there my eyes were dead already.

    I’m delighted to be able to see again!

    Thank you for sticking with me.
    Liz

  3. April 2nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm
    Martin said

    You’ve been doing this all along on a laptop!!! Are you nuts! I have a laptop which is gathering dust after I decided I was going to blog full time on it – that lasted a few days and a some headaches later. Now the laptop is mainly being used by my 5 year old.

    You know Liz, you’ve set yourself up for the grammer/spelling police to come by and sniff around :-)

    I had one “grammer police” a while back gave me advice over a few weeks on some of my errors. On the 7th email he tried to sell me his editorial services !!! Don’t they say it takes 7 contacts with a potential before you get a sale :-)

    I have my trusty old desktop with a 17″ LCD monitor – now what would get me excited is getting a dual monitor setup.

  4. April 2nd, 2006 at 5:56 pm
    ME Strauss said

    Hi Martin,
    I now report with much glee and happiness that the laptop is in a room about 30 yards from where I am typing this! I can see. It’s so amazing to know what the letters are.

    Truly amazing. It’s like cleaning the windshield of the car after too many days of rain.

    Liz

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