Hey, Chris, I just saw a comment on my page about the macros I use. Check out the exceptional extras on your Case CATalyst CD. There are lots of cool ones in the Default Extras keyboard map. They are located in a .zip file entitled Exceptional Extras.

Sorry for getting back to you so late, I didn't mean to blow you off. You can also find me on Facebook and Twitter now.

Hey Chris, just check off "ignore and" and your problem will be fixed. Don't worry about changing your writing, automatic number conversion will do the work for you.

Christine, how's the number conversion going? Hope all is well.

Christine, you should talk to Jenny Griffin. She's been doing this longer than I have -- and I've been doing it for over 20 yrs. She has number conversion DOWN! She has finally given up trying to convert me to NC, but she has pushed me into hyperkeys and realtime macros. She's a marvel!

I think the reason I can write what I want to see on paper is because I visualize what I'm writing so much. I hear five dollars and thirty cents and I visualize $5.30 and write S-FPLT (my $ stroke)/FAO*IF/P-FPLT (my decimal stroke in place of the "and")/THRIRT and totally ignore the "cents."

I'm weird. I know. :)

Hi, Christine. Numbers are something I developed for myself long long ago, before the advent of number conversion, and I have never gotten used to NC. I wanted things to tran right back then, so I started to tweak the way I write things. I'm not at all sure how it would work for other people, but probably not very well. Here goes though.

When people say something like five thousand four hundred and fifty, I leave out the thousand and the hundred. I write FAO*EUF/*RBGS/FO*UR/TPWEUFT. 5 comma with spaces deleted 4 50. I hear "thousand" in that sort of number and write the *RBGS. It's not an extra, really, since I don't write thousand.

Anyway, that's how I write things. The problems I have is when they say five thousand three, getting in the zeros. If I have time, I do it; if I don't, I write what I hear so that when I look at my notes, I know how to edit it.

It's not the best way, but it's my way. I know it's not very helpful.

Have a good time on your vacation.

Hey Christine :) I know, I can't believe I'm a reporter! I wish I was sooner, though. I absolutely Love It. My hands are kind of hurting from writing so much, but I love depos.
How has work been going for you? Been busy?
How is Megan? What CSR is she shooting for?!
Your picture cracks me up :) You don't mess around!

Christine,

I didn't ever take a minute and answer your Q about the new judge. Yes, it probably sounds like I've had a whole lot.

Actually, since I started in 1981, I've been assigned to five judges. They've all been true blessings in my life, and I've been so lucky. I worked for the same judge from about 1995 to Jan. 2008. Started with him a couple days a week, and as my hands got better, coincidentally the courts increased the necessity to have a reporter for him from two days to eventually up to five days.

I only left him because I had a deputy that I just couldn't take any more after a year and a half. He left a month after I did and was kicked out his first day he worked in the next courtroom. Guess, looking back, I really shouldn't have tried to put up with him so long.

In Jan. 2008 I applied for another judge. Coincidentally his wife and I went to high school together, and it was just a really great year. Such another SUPER judge.

At the first of this year he was reassigned to Hemet. Driving is still such a huge pain on my hands and logistically it was tough on the family, so I gave him up.

I started floating the first of this year, and I really loved it. It's so great to get around and hear the different words that come up with different judges and calendars.

When my new judge was appointed a month ago, I knew if he happened to stay at the courthouse here, I was going to apply. I had reported some pretty big trials with him, and I have such a profound respect for him. He's a young family guy (44), Christian, and I just wasn't going to say no -- even though the assignment was in a newly built, teeny-weeny courtroom AND he was supposed to do back-to-back misdemeanor trials, which means mainly DUIs.

So, anyway, our first case was a DUI on Monday, but now we've already started a felony hit-and-run case.
He's just so compassionate and kind and, once again, I really am the luckiest girl in the world.

Megan is going to have to come sit out with me. There is absolutely no room for a student, BUT I really need to figure something out about that.

She's got to be so close to getting into qualifers. She's going to be such an awesome reporter!

Oh, that would be so cool!!

I was trying to get work done today, so I didn't see your post until just now. (I didn't get back on here all day after posting you.)

I'm in court at 9:00 tomorrow.

Today was my first day with a new judge, and I am, once again, the luckiest girl in the world. He's going to be awesome, BUT of course I'll be working more than I'd like. I just hope the body holds out.

April tried my chiro for massage. I didn't hear from her, but the office told me. I'll have to see how she liked it. I'll have a standing 9:00 a.m. Saturday deep-tissue massage scheduled from now until work slows down.

I'm keeping Megan in my thoughts and hoping she gets into qualifying soon!

Walking down the strip, HOW FUN WAS THAT!!

Hey, Clay took that last leg of the RPR on Saturday, feels confident he got it, BUT the reason I'm telling you is a girl from AZ came up to him that said she knew him through the online Stenomaster theory with Jen.

Anyway, she must have been in Megan's class. She took the RPR and said she felt really good about it.

So . . . there is another one out there. :)

Hello Christine,
Sorry for taking long to answer you, I got back home last night.
Try to things,
1- Check your email settings

2- Go to the group and make sure you click on "follow"

hope this helps.
thanks

Christine, just a heads up.
Tami wont get your response unless you leave it on her page.
Simply click on "comment back" under the comment to go to her page where you should leave the message.

thanks!

Hi,
Yes, Jessica qualified. Isn't that awesome!

It's the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina on Harbor Blvd. We're heading down Friday afternoon. I just love San Diego. Horton Plaza is right there too. I'll leave a message on your cell with our room number. If you have anything you want to stash, you're welcome to do that. I e-mailed Mark as well. It will be good to see him again. I think the last seminar we both went to with Mark was December of '06. Yikes, how time flies.

Megan was so frustrated today cuz the 200 test they gave was one that was given two weeks ago. They don't allow you to type them if they are that close together. You think there would be more tests available -- arghh!

Had a rip-roaring hearing today that the attorneys had to talk fast for cuz the judge had another trial to get to. No slowin them down kind of day. And I was sicker than a dog; looking forward to the weekend.

Well, gonna go lay down and hope I feel better for tomorrow.

How are you feeling? Did you recover from that bug you had?

Hey,

What hotel is it at on Saturday??

Jessica called me yesterday to tell me she qualified. WOO-HOO!!!

I've invited her to go down with Clay and me. I sure hope she takes me up on it.

I let Mark know I was coming, but I forgot to ask where. HA!

Yes, I just got her message at work -- even though I am off for two weeks for Spring Break. I still need to put on an "I'm away from the office" message.

Megan needs to call my senior, Vonda, and she'll set her up.

Her number is 304-5177.

I'm sorry I'm going to miss her sitting out in Southwest. We have a great group of girls out there these days. They're all really sweet, so she'll be in good hands.

I'm still floating around, though, so I don't know where I'll be until the Friday before usually and sometimes the day before. I even go to Hemet these days.

The Govenator just appointed four new judges for our county, so there's a chance I might get assigned to one of them if they find him a courtroom in Southwest. We'll see.

I actually have been loving floating. It's more challenging than hearing the same calendars day in and day out. Of course give me a jury trial department, though, and I'm in hog heaven!!

I posted them under the Brief Club. Hope you don't mind.

Thought that way we'd get other input, and she can do what works best for her.

It was kind of a little bit of an effort to learn them because we're so used to having to hit the Q & A symbol, but once you get it through your brain that you don't have to, they start to roll off the fingertips.

Hope you're having a nice weekend. It's beautiful outside. Gotta get back out there.

Cole and three of his buddies went to the Ducks game on Sunday. He's been going to at least one Ducks game a year with one of his best friends for quite a few years now.

He drove down, so that was a little bit of a big deal -- even though he's been driving for a year and a half. He just hasn't had too many occasions to drive far away from home -- unlike Clay who drove to skateboard sites all over the place.

I really should check out the hotel for Saturday night. Sounds fun.

Hey, how's Jessica doing??

Last time she sat in with me I made her promise she would do the screaming speeds. I even tried to get her to sign up with MK's club.

She obviously writes pretty short and had plenty of room to increase her hand speed. I haven't heard yet whether she loves or hates me. HA!

Does Megan know how she's doing??

She sat in with me on one of the hardest witnesses I've had in a very long time. Five attorneys. Three defendants. It was an I.D. expert (psychologist ). It was pretty intense. The judge was all over his realtime screen, reading back whole questions and answers.

I was hoping she just didn't want to give up the whole idea about being a court reporter on the spot. I reassured her how difficult it was, and hopefully I did my job in making her feel she'll be awesome one day.

Anyway, have Megan tell her I've been thinking about her a lot.

Hey, I didn't really think about staying down there. I think Clay's working in Indio Friday, so I think we'll stick with a day trip. He still hasn't confirmed he's going to make it, and I still need to sign up.

I was holding off because I thought I might book a last-minute vacation, but staying at home for two weeks sounds so nice right now, I don't think that's going to happen. I can't remember the last time we stayed home for Spring Break.

I haven't even gotten the word out around work yet about the seminar, and tomorrow is my last day before my vacation. I'll have to make some phone calls.

I've been fighting that killer virus that's going around. I'm still in shock that the attorneys NEVER slowed down one minute, paused, etc., today to allow me to wipe/blow my nose.

They had to look through me to the witness and saw that I was doing my best to stop it from dripping on my machine.

I swear we hold super-human powers in most attorneys' minds.


We can cough, sneeze, etc., and most of the time we don't even get a "bless you," and yet when anybody else does in the courtroom, I always hear a "bless you." They just keep going like we can hear and sneeze at the same time.

Sorry for griping. I've been working sick all week, and it has gotten the best of me. I'm sure I'll be all rested by next week and ready to go to the seminar.

So excited that both your girls are going with!!

well, since you are not a scopist it doesn't really matter.
if it doesn't bother you it doesn't bother me.

let me know.
thanks!