Mellie, We were getting along fine until you brought up Hitler! Yuk! Well, okay, I share a birthday with the Marquis de Sade, so as long as I don't have any of Hitler's genes, I'll be content. I don't know whether lack of coordination goes with left-handedness, but that's me. I have broken toes three times in my own living room. Does that count? Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mellie" <Mel@i12.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: [BSChat] Left or Right? > OK, I am left handed, was told once that I was accident prone due to this as the opposite side of the brain works to the hand used. so how come all you other lefties ain't having my accidents? > > at school, (primary age 5-7) the teacher tried to get me to write with my right, I cried when I got home as I could not do it, my dad had a rubber filt and fled up to the school and said as and when someone could "put him down and stop him getting up, then they could tie my hand behnd my back" funny there were no takers LOL. > > I use the mouse with my right hand, so that I can make notes with my left hand. > > I turn paper, and can't write on the blackboard either. > > Am in good company all us "lefties" (caggies as they are called here) Michaelangelo painted the sisteen chapel with his left hand, personally I would have used a brush LOL > then again Hitler was also left anded! > Mellie > IBSSG > > How Come My Coat Of Arms has Ties At The Back? > > List Admin: > AUS-NSW-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com BAGNALL-L@rootsweb.com BATE-L@rootsweb.com > BENTON-ENG-L@rootsweb.com BLACKHAM-L@rootsweb.com FEREDAY-L@rootsweb.com > HOLLOWOOD-L@rootsweb.com HOWDLE-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Attachments are not enclosed unless previously notified > My AVG is updated every 24 hours > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

I read somewhere that lefties are more accident prone, and they also said we die sooner. But, their study group was a bunch of left-handed professional baseball players. lol Pleeeese!! I think the numbers would even out more if they included some women in the group, with or without a sport connection. lol Well, except for Mellie. They have to leave Mellie out of the group. lol Unless she's wearing her helmet. Two sets of odds for Mel, one with, one without the helmet. lol My grandmother was left handed, the only one in her family. And she was a first generation American, German parents. And in their culture, left-handedness was considered to an evil thing. So, they would stand behind her and force her to use her left hand. She cried and cried, she said, but for the rest of her life, until she was in her 70's she wrote with her right hand. Then, she became a bit palsied and went back to her left hand, because it was less shakey. (In Grandma's family of 10 kids, there was only one with brown eyes, and they told her she was adopted. lol It didn't pay to be different in that family!) As for Hitler, I think he was just plain sinister, regardless of the hand he used. Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Mellie" <Mel@i12.com> Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BSChat] Left or Right? Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 22:38:50 +0100 OK, I am left handed, was told once that I was accident prone due to this as the opposite side of the brain works to the hand used. so how come all you other lefties ain't having my accidents? at school, (primary age 5-7) the teacher tried to get me to write with my right, I cried when I got home as I could not do it, my dad had a rubber filt and fled up to the school and said as and when someone could "put him down and stop him getting up, then they could tie my hand behnd my back" funny there were no takers LOL. I use the mouse with my right hand, so that I can make notes with my left hand. I turn paper, and can't write on the blackboard either. Am in good company all us "lefties" (caggies as they are called here) Michaelangelo painted the sisteen chapel with his left hand, personally I would have used a brush LOL then again Hitler was also left anded! Mellie IBSSG How Come My Coat Of Arms has Ties At The Back? List Admin: AUS-NSW-SURNAMES-L@rootsweb.com BAGNALL-L@rootsweb.com BATE-L@rootsweb.com BENTON-ENG-L@rootsweb.com BLACKHAM-L@rootsweb.com FEREDAY-L@rootsweb.com HOLLOWOOD-L@rootsweb.com HOWDLE-L@rootsweb.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Attachments are not enclosed unless previously notified My AVG is updated every 24 hours Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 19/04/02 ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

Mike says, "I have CPU, scanner, printer, lamp, CD's, etc. all to the left of the monitor & keyboard" Okay, Mike. But I also have a cat or two or three sprawled out between the keyboard and the monitor, and another one on my papers. Then there's my coffee mug, my dinner plate, a stack of books..... I don't think I want to go on with this. This room is a mess! Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shuler Michael" <grinch42@mindspring.com> To: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com>; "BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L" <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: RE: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > I'm ambidextrous, Sharon, but I use my mouse right-handed due to the > available space on my computer desk...about the only spot that is logical > is to the right of my keyboard, since I have CPU, scanner, printer, lamp, > CD's, etc. all to the left of the monitor & keyboard. I set it up that way > because of my tendancy to always grab a CD & load it with my LEFT hand, and > discovered that the space between the keyboard and everything else, even if > I moved the monitor and keyboard to the right, didn't leave what I > considered adequate space for my fat left arm. And I agree, things like > CAD are easier for a south-paw when used with the left hand, but being > "ambi", I managed to adapt (don't use the CAD all that often, compared to > the other 'puter things). > > Mike > IBSSG > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Sharon Workman <workman@dreamscape.com> > > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > > Date: 4/22/2002 12:52:15 PM > > Subject: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > > > > Sheepers, > > When I bought my first computer two and a half years ago, I decided from > the > > beginning to use the mouse with my right hand. I've had no problem until > > now, when I have Paint Shop Pro, and have to use the mouse for work that > > requires good eye-hand coordination (for drawing and such). Now I see I > > made a mistake. I can't switch - too strong a habit built up using the > > right hand. > > > > Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left hand? > > > > Sharon > > IBSSG > > > > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > > Unsubscribe from the list: > > > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub > scribe > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > --- Shuler Michael > --- grinch42@mindspring.com > --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. > >

Sue, Do you stutter? :>) Remember when they said making a child switch hands caused stuttering? Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue & Bobby Bates" <bsbates@netease.net> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> wrote.... > > Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left > hand?< > > I've been using my mouse with my left hand for awhile now. I think > I switched over when my right wrist was giving me problems and have > just stayed with it. It also frees up my right hand for writing while > mousing. :-) > But, I should mention here that I am more or less ambidexterous. I > really believe that I was intended to be left handed since I'm also > left eyed. I remember very clearly the day that I was seated at my > little table drawing with crayons about the time that I was 3-4 yrs. > old. > Dad saw me scribbling away with the crayon firmly in my left hand > and he told me that I should use the other hand (my right). > Naturally, I asked 'why', typical kid, and he told me that it's just > easier that way, that things are made for people who use their > 'other'/right hand. I can remember having to remind myself to change > hands from time to time because Daddy said I should and I've been > mostly right handed ever since. > I'd forgotten about this memory until Bobby and I were discussing > my left-eyedness not long ago and he made the statement that most > left-eyed people were also left handed, which makes sense, I guess. > The crayon scene I just described came swooping in from my unconcious > memory like a movie short and I realized that I really had been > intended to be a Lefty. :-) > Best, > SueB > > > > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Creative use of your delete key is encouraged. If you disagree with the subject, CHANGE the subject. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

> Sue, > Do you stutter? :>) Remember when they said making a child switch hands caused stuttering?< W-w-w-what? M-m-m-me st-st-stutter? N-n-n-no. Actually, sometimes I can get rather tongue tied and have had occasion when it's been hard to get a word out but not like Mel Tillis or anything. Don't think I'd really call what I do stuttering. Wasn't tickling children supposed to cause stuttering as well? Best, SueB

Jan, Yes I turn the paper. What's completely impossible to do is write on a black board. I have to stand on my head. I'm glad I don't teach school. <g> Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Garland" <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Carpel Tunnel Syndrome > > > Sharon, do you turn your paper now? That's what I do to keep from bending my > hand unnaturally. > > It's real tough to bring the muscle back if the nerve is damaged. That's > what causes the atrophy. > > Jan G.

I tried, in a very concentrated effort, to learn to use my left hand as well as I do my right one. It was useless ! I even bound the fingers of my right hand to force me to use the left one and it was a disaster . Nothing worked. I was just trying an experiment in being ambidextrous . it went the same way my Spanish lessons went, nowhere. Jack Childers in OKC

I agree with Wild Bill. I use the generic gas all the time, even run my Snow Cone business generator on the same stuff. I get Sam's RV Magazine and sometime back they covered this subject and the outcome was that it can actually damage your engine to use that high octane gasoline if your engine doesn't require it, and they said very few engines actually require it. Jack Childers in OKC

Sheepers, When I bought my first computer two and a half years ago, I decided from the beginning to use the mouse with my right hand. I've had no problem until now, when I have Paint Shop Pro, and have to use the mouse for work that requires good eye-hand coordination (for drawing and such). Now I see I made a mistake. I can't switch - too strong a habit built up using the right hand. Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left hand? Sharon IBSSG

GOT to agree with you, Edrie...eating left-handed is a HUGH problem. When the attempt was made to break me of it, it resulted in a somewhat more awkward situation...when I try to drink right handed, I have the tendency to drink out of the side of my mouth. To cut my food with my right hand is so awkward for me that I tend to eat bites too large. The compromise I made with myself really confuses people...I cut with the left, drink with the left, but normally will use fork or chopsticks with the right. NOBODY can figure how to set a place for me at the table! Mike IBSSG > [Original Message] > From: Edrie Broughton <etfoam@inreach.com> > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/22/2002 1:00:03 PM > Subject: Re: [BSChat] Left handed switching > > There was never an effort to switch me but it was suggested several times to > my mother that I should be switched. The last teacher made the best > argument...I appeared to be almost ambidextrous. I do many things both > handed, some things only left handed and a couple of things only right > handed. For instance I only prune or use scissors right handed. I pretty > much only write left handed. I hand sew with either hand. If one hand gets > tired I unconsciously turn the work over and switch hands. Used to drive my > mom nuts. > > The one thing she insisted on was when I was in first or second grade she > taught me to eat right handed. It is a good thing. Both my sisters married > left handed and one niece on that side is left handed. My husband had one > left handed sibling and two siblings have left handed spouses. There are > not enough corners at the table, so they all get marched in a row. > > EdrieAnne IBSSG > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Blacksheep-Chat-L@rootsweb.com is a wide spectrum Chat List, Topics allowed are almost anything.restrictions are: > Political discussion, religious prosylitizing, and aggressive behavior, any of these topics will result in restricted priveleges. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Shuler Michael --- grinch42@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.

"Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> wrote.... > Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left hand?< I've been using my mouse with my left hand for awhile now. I think I switched over when my right wrist was giving me problems and have just stayed with it. It also frees up my right hand for writing while mousing. :-) But, I should mention here that I am more or less ambidexterous. I really believe that I was intended to be left handed since I'm also left eyed. I remember very clearly the day that I was seated at my little table drawing with crayons about the time that I was 3-4 yrs. old. Dad saw me scribbling away with the crayon firmly in my left hand and he told me that I should use the other hand (my right). Naturally, I asked 'why', typical kid, and he told me that it's just easier that way, that things are made for people who use their 'other'/right hand. I can remember having to remind myself to change hands from time to time because Daddy said I should and I've been mostly right handed ever since. I'd forgotten about this memory until Bobby and I were discussing my left-eyedness not long ago and he made the statement that most left-eyed people were also left handed, which makes sense, I guess. The crayon scene I just described came swooping in from my unconcious memory like a movie short and I realized that I really had been intended to be a Lefty. :-) Best, SueB

I'm ambidextrous, Sharon, but I use my mouse right-handed due to the available space on my computer desk...about the only spot that is logical is to the right of my keyboard, since I have CPU, scanner, printer, lamp, CD's, etc. all to the left of the monitor & keyboard. I set it up that way because of my tendancy to always grab a CD & load it with my LEFT hand, and discovered that the space between the keyboard and everything else, even if I moved the monitor and keyboard to the right, didn't leave what I considered adequate space for my fat left arm. And I agree, things like CAD are easier for a south-paw when used with the left hand, but being "ambi", I managed to adapt (don't use the CAD all that often, compared to the other 'puter things). Mike IBSSG > [Original Message] > From: Sharon Workman <workman@dreamscape.com> > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: 4/22/2002 12:52:15 PM > Subject: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > > Sheepers, > When I bought my first computer two and a half years ago, I decided from the > beginning to use the mouse with my right hand. I've had no problem until > now, when I have Paint Shop Pro, and have to use the mouse for work that > requires good eye-hand coordination (for drawing and such). Now I see I > made a mistake. I can't switch - too strong a habit built up using the > right hand. > > Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left hand? > > Sharon > IBSSG > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 --- Shuler Michael --- grinch42@mindspring.com --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet.

As a kid, being amblyoptic in the right eye, and being right handed, I had to learn to shoot left handed. In the Army, it just became natural to shoot left handed. To pick up a rifle and put it to my right shoulder, is just as awkward (sp) as it would be for a rightie to put it to his left shoulder. Dale Goodwin Salem OR

I used to be very left handed, but as I gotten older, I find myself becoming more ambidexterous. There are some things that I've always just done with the right hand, playing guitar, playing golf, the mouse, ironing clothes. But I'll always write and eat left handed. It's pretty deeply ingrained. <g> The nice thing about eating left handed is that my hubby is right handed. We sit by eat other in the restaurants and we've been known to hold hands while we eat. <g> Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "JACK CHILDERS" <jaxone1234@msn.com> Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] Left handed switching Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:04:53 -0500 I tried, in a very concentrated effort, to learn to use my left hand as well as I do my right one. It was useless ! I even bound the fingers of my right hand to force me to use the left one and it was a disaster . Nothing worked. I was just trying an experiment in being ambidextrous . it went the same way my Spanish lessons went, nowhere. Jack Childers in OKC ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Bill, my engine does ping when I put methanol-laced gas in it, and the gas from the cheap stations seems somehow dirty, by comparison. Don't know why. I use either the medium or high octane. Works better. Car is peppier. I drive a Camry, but the engines in my Honda Accords also had to be better gas to keep them ping-free. My husband has a one-ton truck and he can put just about anything in it, too. Seems like the truck engines are different, somehow. They also tend to last longer. Hubby wants to build a hybrid engine into an old bus to use as an RV. lol when he has the time. Of course, all that comes after we finish the house and a few other little projects. lol Jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Wild bill <farnorth-ak@gci.net> Reply-To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] SOARING GAS PRICES Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:00:35 -0500 "J. Garland" wrote: > > The gas you get at the "off-brand" stations is often very poor quality. At > Exxon AM/PM places, they have a higher mix of methenol (wood alcohol) in the > gas, and that can also harm some engines. Even at Costco, they tell you that > they sell the next-to-the-worse grade of gasoline on the market. > > I like my car. I'll buy what's best for it. No point in buying crap gasoline > to save $300 a year and then need a new engine. > > BTW, here in CA about $1 of the price goes directly to gas taxes. And what > the state does with it, sure isn't obvious on the roads. > > Jan g. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > Ah but you are mistaken there. I have a very good fiend that has a gas station and he tells me that indepents get their gas from the same places like Exxon, Mobil, Philip 66 and so on. And most all of the automobiles will run on 87 octane. If you use it and your engine doesn't ping then you are just wasting money if you by premium gasoline. if you have a fuel injector system, then if you add a can of injector cleaner every 2,000 miles, you have the same thing as the higher price gasoline. This is something that most consumers don't know and it has been promoted by name brand gasoline refineries, just so they can charge more and reap a larger profit. I know I use nothing but the cheapest gasoline in my 89 s10 pickem up with a 4.3 v6 and the engine has 175,000 miles on it and has never had a wrench put to the engine. And I get 27 miles mpg on the open road. Also I still make trips to the lower 48 in it. -- Wild Bill, North Pole, Alaska Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans. ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com

Sharon, don't feel bad. I need a desk with side boards and a "bread board". lol We often eat at our computers, too, so I try to keep the food and drink as far from the keyboard and mouse as I can, but it's not easy. Desks aren't really made to work the way we do. I have a desk that's 5' long and 24" deep. Has the pc box, printer and screen on it. Then there's file folders, snail mail on the left between the box and the screen, notes and non-paper "stuff" between me and the screen, and the top drawers get used as flat spaces. And so does the pull-out with my keyboard and mouse on it, which used to be a drawer, hubby built me a shelf that pulls out, makes life easier. I've been trying to get in the habit of keeping a stack of file folders handy. Seems like I'm always coming up with papers that need to go somewhere but I don't know where, so I'll make a file and a name that's general to a category, but specific enough to find the paper again. And I have a file cabinet, so eventually it gets put into another more general file thingy. But, I'm keeping the stacks of notes to a minimum this way, so I guess it's working. I'm finding that I put more than one note i the file. Later, if I can condense down the files by combining them, it's easy to re-use the emptied file folder by putting a new name on it. Jan g. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> Reply-To: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:48:10 -0400 Mike says, "I have CPU, scanner, printer, lamp, CD's, etc. all to the left of the monitor & keyboard" Okay, Mike. But I also have a cat or two or three sprawled out between the keyboard and the monitor, and another one on my papers. Then there's my coffee mug, my dinner plate, a stack of books..... I don't think I want to go on with this. This room is a mess! Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shuler Michael" <grinch42@mindspring.com> To: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com>; "BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L" <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:18 PM Subject: RE: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > I'm ambidextrous, Sharon, but I use my mouse right-handed due to the > available space on my computer desk...about the only spot that is logical > is to the right of my keyboard, since I have CPU, scanner, printer, lamp, > CD's, etc. all to the left of the monitor & keyboard. I set it up that way > because of my tendancy to always grab a CD & load it with my LEFT hand, and > discovered that the space between the keyboard and everything else, even if > I moved the monitor and keyboard to the right, didn't leave what I > considered adequate space for my fat left arm. And I agree, things like > CAD are easier for a south-paw when used with the left hand, but being > "ambi", I managed to adapt (don't use the CAD all that often, compared to > the other 'puter things). > > Mike > IBSSG > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Sharon Workman <workman@dreamscape.com> > > To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> > > Date: 4/22/2002 12:52:15 PM > > Subject: [BSChat] Lefties and the Mouse > > > > Sheepers, > > When I bought my first computer two and a half years ago, I decided from > the > > beginning to use the mouse with my right hand. I've had no problem until > > now, when I have Paint Shop Pro, and have to use the mouse for work that > > requires good eye-hand coordination (for drawing and such). Now I see I > > made a mistake. I can't switch - too strong a habit built up using the > > right hand. > > > > Do you other lefties operate the mouse with your right or left hand? > > > > Sharon > > IBSSG > > > > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > > Unsubscribe from the list: > > > Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub > scribe > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > --- Shuler Michael > --- grinch42@mindspring.com > --- EarthLink: The #1 provider of the Real Internet. > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com

Michael, I think switching for eating has to occur early in childhood for the switch to 'feel' natural. I have eaten right handed for so long that I really don't know when I was switched. But I have a fair idea. My dad went to sea with the Weather Project for 3-4 years that ended when I was almost six. Sometimes he as only gone three weeks, other cruises like the one to Japan and back took three months. On one of the trips to Japan he brought my sis and I chopsticks. Since Mom didn't have much interest in eating when he was away it spread to sis and I. In order to make eating more fun, Mom had chopsticks night where we would eat our meals with chopsticks. We all got pretty proficient but then I didn't use chopsticks again until I was about 24 at Christmas dinner with my Chinese boss. I picked them up and couldn't do a thing with them. I put them down and was talking to the person to my right at the table. Then I noticed I had food at my mouth. There were the chopsticks in my left hand which knew what to do....I had been trying to use them with my right hand and it wouldn't work. So I learned to use the chopsticks before Mom switched me. So the switch had to be after I was three and before I was in first grade. EdrieAnne IBSSG

OH--yes, I remember that, too. Also, poster board was tough. You can't see where you've written and it's hard not to smear things. I use uniball and pilot brand pens so I don't smear the ink, it soaks in real well, very fast. jan G. ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> Reply-To: "Sharon Workman" <workman@dreamscape.com> To: BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BSChat] Carpel Tunnel Syndrome Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 14:06:51 -0400 Jan, Yes I turn the paper. What's completely impossible to do is write on a black board. I have to stand on my head. I'm glad I don't teach school. <g> Sharon IBSSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Garland" <zippywebgenie@hotmail.com> To: <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [BSChat] Carpel Tunnel Syndrome > > > Sharon, do you turn your paper now? That's what I do to keep from bending my > hand unnaturally. > > It's real tough to bring the muscle back if the nerve is damaged. That's > what causes the atrophy. > > Jan G. ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== Unsubscribe from the list: Mailto:Blacksheep-Chat-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsubscribe ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com

Edrie, I've never seen a left handed mouse. Even though you can switch the mouse in the computer, the shape of the mouse isn't usually right. I've been using a track ball for three years now and it's a very right handed thing, using the thumb to direct the cursor. No way will it work left handed. I have no problem with using it, but I'm not using it to draw graphics. That's a whole different thing, takes a lot of control to draw and our meeses aren't designed to track by location on the scree. That takes an electronic brain in the mouse, so it knows where each point is on the screen. I got my husband, who likes to draw graphics, a digitized pad which comes with a pencil-like stylus and also a mouse. You can use the stylus for very precise drawing and also for using the cursor. You can write a letter (S or P or some other letter) on the pad to get the computer to open or close windows, etc., so it's a really cool thing. And it doesn't care which hand you do it with. <G> Prices run from $50-400. Jan g. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

I use a right handed mouse. Due to my ambidexterity I have no problem with hand eye coordination....I think. But then I'm a klutz, left and right handed. I also share computer with right handed people. EdrieAnne IBSSG