Ok I had a good chuckle at this one! In real life I can be a bit of a benign smartass.
But my phone thus far has remained neutral.
And I have no idea how the word smartness appeared in my comment instead of smartphone.
Gremlins and brain fog doing the waltz with auto correct I guess.
I think your phone at best is a “low C grade student” phone 
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
Well, yeah, as they say, I do need help to figure out how to spend money I don’t have on shit I don’t want to impress people I don’t like.
It’s extremely good at standing up to getting wet and being knocked around; and fits nicely in a smallish pocket.
Maybe the equivalent of that low C student who excels at athletics? (Which would make it the reverse of me.)
Yes! I’m going to see the Hamilton this weekend, and when I bought my ticket I apparently checked the wrong box and ended up getting a paper ticket in the mail when what I really wanted a virtual ticket on my phone. Now I’m super paranoid I’m going to forget to bring it with me, since I’m so accustomed to having all my tickets on my phone.
And like I said earlier, that’s exactly why I put my Clipper Card on my phone. I live in the Sacramento area, but it’s useful to have the Clipper Card for occasional trips to the Bay Area. But it’s really easy to misplace the physical card when I only use it maybe once a year, and that is exactly what happened. So when I got a replacement card it went straight on my phone, where I can never misplace it again.
During elementary school cursive was required, but when I was in 6th grade my family moved from the US to England and there was only printing (I actually got reprimanded for writing in cursive). By the time we came back to the States I was allowed to print in school, so I never went back to cursive. These days I can certainly read cursive, but I can’t write in it – even though I’m 53.
Oddly, when I use handwriting recognition tools, it seems like my sloppiest cursive gets the most accurate results. Even going back to an Apple Newton.
I can write faster than I can type – but not if I want clearly legible handwriting, in either cursive or print.
I would not say my cursive is a work of art (I reserve that for calligraphy written with a fountain pen), but it is pretty easy to read.
I have terrible handwriting and printing, unless I really s-l-o-w d-o-w-n.
Then it is- well not terrible. I used to get As in reading but Cs & Ds in handwriting.
I can’t figure out how to answer the typos question.
I learned to type on a real keyboard. On that, I can type reasonably fast and reasonably accurately.
But now everything uses a touch screen keyboard. I’m terrible on that. Especially on the phone. I keep missing the letters I want to tap, and autocorrect turns it into garbage.
I can’t either. I misspell thing when writing by hand, but I don’t consider that a typo.
I used to have beautiful cursive handwriting. I know because I have lots of old journals to prove it. After so many years of not using it, it looks like shit. The last time I signed my name was for the election and I was actually a bit concerned because my signature had degraded so much. These days I print all my to-do lists and such.
I answered honestly but not completely to the “sleeping with pets” poll. My wife and I sleep together in a queen size bed. The doors are open, and one of our two cats (not the snakes though) almost always wants to sleep with us. And I don’t sleep well.
But I already have borderline insomnia, so I wasn’t going to sleep well anyway. And the cat gets rambunctious when I’m in my deeper sleep, so the one with the bigger issue is the wife.
But of course, it isn’t that simple. Because prior to letting said cat sleep with us, it was notorious for caterwauling outside the closed bedroom for 10-20 minutes at a time, plus another 10 for a break, then resuming, because it can’t bear to be apart from it’s mommy. So the sleep was at risk anyway.
But it is comforting to wake at 1-2 am, after a stress dream, a nightmare, or being half asleep and becoming fully awake brooding at how screwed up this world is and to pet him, listening to the purr and trust, and feeling secure that there are a few good and loving creatures in the world (when he’s quiet!).
I’ve always slept with cats and the only time it was ever a problem was when I had a male who liked to sort of have sex with one of the females (both fixed) just after I got in bed. I’d have to wait for him to finish and settle down (and it could take him up to 10 minutes) before I could get to sleep. I have three females now and it’s rare that all three are there at the same time. They come and go during the night and it doesn’t disturb me. I toss and turn so I probably disturb them more.
My cairn terrier zonks out completely at my feet at 11 PM, and she will sleep there like a log until about 7 AM. I will likely be up before she will.
Nefurtari would come in when I went to bed and lie down with me for five or ten minutes before going somewhere else. One time that I can remember she did fall asleep next to me but eventually woke up and found a safer place. Of course, she was always there in the morning, slapping my face to get me up.
There was a time when some kittens would get in bed with me – they were warm and soft and then suddenly sharp and pointy.
I have a strict no pets in the bedroom rule. Being covered in hair while I sleep disgusts me.
My wife and i sleep in separate rooms, due to vastly different schedules- she usually works until 1AM. The cats pick who they want to sleep with, one always sleeps with me.
Sometime a cat will be a bit of a bed hog and I have to scoot them- no big deal.
Very nice in the cold months.