Well, Briggsy left here to continue her tour of NZ yesterday. The house seems strangely quiet now. Not that shes noisy or anything, she just settled in like she belonged here. New Zealand seems to do that to her. As others have already said, Q4A has really come alive lately.
We didn't get to go horse riding on Monday as we had planned. What are the odds of 30 people showing up at Stonehurst Farm to go riding on a Monday afternoon in November? Better than we had anticipated apparently. We missed out. So we will go this coming Sunday evening when she passes back through town on the way North again. We've booked this time. I'm not to sure about this horse riding caper. Its been many years since I have been on a horse, but if Briggsy can Pilot a Kite Buggy, I guess I can ride a horse.
In other news... at work today I've been trying out speech recognition software. I can now dictate emails and other documents, launch programs, and operate windows menus all by voice. This means I can drink coffee, pick wax out of my ear, and continue working at the same time! Its still a little clunky and some of the mistakes it makes are amusing but they say its gets better as you train it. I have to learn not to curse out loud at the machine anymore. If my PC is annoying me I have to say 'stop listening' to disable the microphone before I can swear at it. Otherwise it will diligently record every word I say. Obviously this kind of takes the sting out of it. I might have to resort to hand gestures.
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