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I'm going to use this to improve my slowly fading skills of writing with the left hand. I've got a ways to go.
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You are doing a lot better than I can when writing with my left hand.
A long time in my youth I spent a lot of time underneath cars. Cars, being bilaterally symmetrical, I found that I had to repeat the same actions with my left hand as I did with my right, and slowly became somewhat ambidextrous, at least when underneath a car...

Interestingly, we are eye-dominant in the same way that we are hand-dominant, and most people who are right-handed are right-eyed and vice-versa.
I did know a man in my rifle-club who was right-handed and left-eyed, so he bought himself a left-handed target rifle and taught himself to shoot left-handed.

I also taught myself to switch attention between my eyes in Uni. Biology classes. You have to look down a microscope, then draw what you see. It teaches you to really look at what you are seeing. Most people look down the microscope, then look away and draw, and back again, etc. I would put my left eye to the eyepiece, and the right eye would look at my drawing. I was then able to effectively 'trace' the image in the microscope onto the paper.

Looking at the results afterwards, I decided that "Scientific Illustrator" was not a potential job in my career path...
 
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It's not really a spoiler. It's just an exquisitely acted scene. One to look out for. There are consequences/ramifications as a result of it, but I leave it to you to anticipate.

Writing about it reminded me of a Dr Who episode. The Doctor brings the failed, depressed Van Gogh forward in time to see the recognition that he and his art get in later years. Another lump-in-the-throat scene.
Mrs AFB loves the show so much I’m not allowed to even look at my phone when it’s on!
 
Ok, totally apropos of nothing, other than the train of thought about stuff to watch brought these three Aussie shows to mind. Yes, they are 'reality' shows, but nothing like what you have seen before.

  1. Bush Mechanics. The antics/adventures of Australian indigenous people coping with car breakdowns in the bush. Like filling a blown tire with dry grass to get you home.
  2. Outback Ringers. Three groups of people rounding up and mustering feral cattle and water buffalo in Northern Australia. They buy 4wd vehicles and literally armor-plate them to survive impacts with cattle, trees, ant-hills and the like. The antics of the spotters in wee, tiny little helicopters have to be seen to be believed.
  3. Scottish Vets Down Under. Two Scottish vets move to Ballarat in rural Victoria and their encounters with their clients. The patience shown by one of them when being chewed on by a python shows this guy is a saint.
If you can't find any of these on your local streaming services, you need to run a cable across the Pacific to pick them up locally.
 
You are doing a lot better than I can when writing with my left hand.
A long time in my youth I spent a lot of time underneath cars. Cars, being bilaterally symmetrical, I found that I had to repeat the same actions with my left hand as I did with my right, and slowly became somewhat ambidextrous, at least when underneath a car...

Interestingly, we are eye-dominant in the same way that we are hand-dominant, and most people who are right-handed are right-eyed and vice-versa.
I did know a man in my rifle-club who was right-handed and left-eyed, so he bought himself a left-handed target rifle and taught himself to shoot left-handed.

I also taught myself to switch attention between my eyes in Uni. Biology classes. You have to look down a microscope, then draw what you see. It teaches you to really look at what you are seeing. Most people look down the microscope, then look away and draw, and back again, etc. I would put my left eye to the eyepiece, and the right eye would look at my drawing. I was then able to effectively 'trace' the image in the microscope onto the paper.

Looking at the results afterwards, I decided that "Scientific Illustrator" was not a potential job in my career path...

I've worked in my car a little and can say that it's easier for repetitive motions with the left hand. As for how the eyes work with shooting, I rarely shoot guns but I used to shoot BB guns in cans growing up.

Thank you for the compliment. I had to learn how to write left handed when I was in middle school. I have very tiny and easy to sprain wrists.

Switching attention between eyes seems to require a lot of focus and training. I don't think I'd be proficient in that skill at all. You've got me thinking about it now though. Scientific Illustrator might not be a future job but you still have a skill most of us never think about at all.
 
It’s much better than my lefthand writing. Actually almost as good as my righthand writing as my calligraphy sucks.

This was written in the same notebook about 2-3 weeks ago. I was running errands but I had one left to go. So after dropping off groceries, I left This note. This is my right hand writing on average.
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On my mind: still savoring what has been a very pleasant, eventful day here in the DC area -- hoisting a Stella in celebration -- and also looking ahead to tomorrow's trip to my local branch office of the county health department for the first of the two jabs of COVID-19 vaccine. I'll be happy to get that over and done, but am more looking forward to a couple or three weeks from now after I've had the second inoculation, when I'll really be done.
 
I've worked in my car a little and can say that it's easier for repetitive motions with the left hand. As for how the eyes work with shooting, I rarely shoot guns but I used to shoot BB guns in cans growing up.

Thank you for the compliment. I had to learn how to write left handed when I was in middle school. I have very tiny and easy to sprain wrists.

Switching attention between eyes seems to require a lot of focus and training. I don't think I'd be proficient in that skill at all. You've got me thinking about it now though. Scientific Illustrator might not be a future job but you still have a skill most of us never think about at all.

Drawing using one eye for the microscope and the other on the work is actually a very old microscopist's skill from the 19th Century. I read about it in an old book and taught myself. That, and being able to microtome thin slices by hand using a straight-back razor.

I also write with a dip pen sometimes. Not calligraphy, just handwriting. The character that some nibs give to your writing can be quite attractive. Admittedly, certain other nibs have all the character of a ballpoint...

There are many old skills that are worth learning and preserving, not because they are historical, but because they are useful.
 
Drawing using one eye for the microscope and the other on the work is actually a very old microscopist's skill from the 19th Century. I read about it in an old book and taught myself. That, and being able to microtome thin slices by hand using a straight-back razor.

I also write with a dip pen sometimes. Not calligraphy, just handwriting. The character that some nibs give to your writing can be quite attractive. Admittedly, certain other nibs have all the character of a ballpoint...

There are many old skills that are worth learning and preserving, not because they are historical, but because they are useful.
Photographers do it as well. Can help when hunting for small wildlife.
 
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On my mind: still savoring what has been a very pleasant, eventful day here in the DC area -- hoisting a Stella in celebration -- and also looking ahead to tomorrow's trip to my local branch office of the county health department for the first of the two jabs of COVID-19 vaccine. I'll be happy to get that over and done, but am more looking forward to a couple or three weeks from now after I've had the second inoculation, when I'll really be done.

Good luck with both inoculations.

My own beer - proper serious Belgian stout - is going down quite well this evening.

I alos learned today (as a result of a phone call) that one of my favourite stalls in the farmers' market shall (hopefully) re-open on the last week-end of January, not this coming Saturday, but the subsequent Saturday.
 
I'm hoping that I won't have too serious of a reaction to the first jab, but from what I've heard from some people sometimes the second jab can be more problematic. I will deal with each as the situation arises. First, tomorrow, with that first jab.....
Good luck! Do you have anyone to call on if there are any problems?
 
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Thanks, Scepticalscribe and Beach Bum ! Yeah, I'll be glad when this is over and I'm back home, arm muscle filled with vaccine and halfway on the fighting-COVID-19 journey! Similar to when receiving the flu vaccine, when one gets the Covid-19 injection, they then must wait around for about fifteen or thirty minutes to be sure that they're OK and not experiencing any serious issues such as an immediate allergic response. I do have a couple of neighbors here in the building to whom I can reach out if later I find I need help and am ill, whatever.....
 
Thanks, Scepticalscribe and Beach Bum ! Yeah, I'll be glad when this is over and I'm back home, arm muscle filled with vaccine and halfway on the fighting-COVID-19 journey! Similar to when receiving the flu vaccine, when one gets the Covid-19 injection, they then must wait around for about fifteen or thirty minutes to be sure that they're OK and not experiencing any serious issues such as an immediate allergic response. I do have a couple of neighbors here in the building to whom I can reach out if later I find I need help and am ill, whatever.....

Take care and stay safe.
 
Thanks, Scepticalscribe and Beach Bum ! Yeah, I'll be glad when this is over and I'm back home, arm muscle filled with vaccine and halfway on the fighting-COVID-19 journey! Similar to when receiving the flu vaccine, when one gets the Covid-19 injection, they then must wait around for about fifteen or thirty minutes to be sure that they're OK and not experiencing any serious issues such as an immediate allergic response. I do have a couple of neighbors here in the building to whom I can reach out if later I find I need help and am ill, whatever.....
Hope it all goes well. Just think you’ll be able to go out for a nice concert or meal sooner than the rest of us!
 
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