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Do you prefer online games or board games?  What are some of your favorites?  I just learned how to play Pokeno--it was fun.  I love Scrabble, Boggle, Bingo and UNO too.  Word games are usually fun online too.  Netives has a marbles game that is sooooo addictive.  Just mindless passing away of the time......a little downtime is good now and then though. 

in my friends baby shower, we have to guess how many jelly beans was in the baby bottle. then we have to guess also, using a roll of bathroom tissue, how big her tummy is.

Divide them in two teams.  Give them each a straw and marshmellow.  Have them blow the marshmellow across the floor using the straw and do it like a race.  We laughed so hard when we did it in my son's class.  We used holiday marshmellows to tie it in with the holiday

I live in a suburban area.  You would think there would be no problem getting any kind of Internet service.  Other parts of my town have DSL, but not the part south of a main road where I live.  The phone company is embroiled in a dispute with the state's commerce commission about how much they can charge.  The law says they have to let competitors use their lines, but they claim that can't charge the competitors enough to make it worth their while; therefore, they just won't add anymore DSL until they can charge what they want.  They advertise their DSL like crazy, though.  When you try to actually order it, however, it's not available in your area.  Lucky for me, the cable company put in high-speed Internet or I'd be out of a job.  Dial-up just wouldn't work anymore for Medquist's platform.

If a part of your town has service like mine does (just not your part), city hall should have someone who handles the franchise.  If so, try complaining to them.

Hi people :)

When MT gets very boring (which is most days for me), I have a few things I'll do to keep producing. Will you please share any games you play with yourself to crank out some extra lines (something more than "I need to meet the bills, and that keeps me in the chair").

Here's mine. I hope these will help. Please share yours!

• Try to get the % keystrokes saved in Shorthand higher than the last time I worked.


• Keep a timer with me - transcribe 20 minutes, clean home for 10, transcribe 20, clean for 10. Not a very productive way, but I use this when I am truly climbing the walls and nothing else works. Sometimes if I'm on a roll and the 20 minutes are up, I'll just hit the timer again and go for another 20 before the cleaning break. The break gets my house in order (amazing what can be done in 10 minutes - folded laundry and dishes running and so on), gives my wrists a break, gets the blood flowing.


• I find the times I have the worst trouble sitting there and working are the times when it's been a while since I've been out of the house. Getting out regularly helps working go much easier.


• Sometimes set a goal of a specific amount 300 lines or whatever is a slight stretch but can possibly be reached in an hour, and aim for that.


• A walk to the mailbox or other light exercise can help.


• I haven't tried a regular exercise break in the middle of the day (say a 1-hour break to reenergize and really get a good workout in), but if that helps you I hope you'll share.


• Try to get to half of my line count by noon.


• Get done for the day in time to watch Dr. Phil as a reward. :)

Hi people :)

When MT gets very boring (which is most days for me), I have a few things I'll do to keep producing. Will you please share any games you play with yourself to crank out some extra lines (something more than "I need to meet the bills, and that keeps me in the chair").

Here's mine. I hope these will help. Please share yours!

• Try to get the % keystrokes saved in Shorthand higher than the last time I worked.


• Keep a timer with me - transcribe 20 minutes, clean home for 10, transcribe 20, clean for 10. Not a very productive way, but I use this when I am truly climbing the walls and nothing else works. Sometimes if I'm on a roll and the 20 minutes are up, I'll just hit the timer again and go for another 20 before the cleaning break. The break gets my house in order (amazing what can be done in 10 minutes - folded laundry and dishes running and so on), gives my wrists a break, gets the blood flowing.


• I find the times I have the worst trouble sitting there and working are the times when it's been a while since I've been out of the house. Getting out regularly helps working go much easier.


• Sometimes set a goal of a specific amount 300 lines or whatever is a slight stretch but can possibly be reached in an hour, and aim for that.


• A walk to the mailbox or other light exercise can help.


• I haven't tried a regular exercise break in the middle of the day (say a 1-hour break to reenergize and really get a good workout in), but if that helps you I hope you'll share.


• Try to get to half of my line count by noon.


• Get done for the day in time to watch Dr. Phil as a reward. :)

You can make a diaper out of a paper napkin.  Whoever gets the "dirty" diaper (with peanut butter in it) wins a prize.  Taste the baby food contest where everyone gets a dollop of several kinds of baby food on a paper plate, and you have to guess what's what.  Pick the baby safety pins out of a bowl of rice blindfolded.  Scoop the cotton balls off the floor into a bowl blindfolded with a spatula.  The memory game where you look at a tray full of baby items for one minute, then write down as many as you can remember.  All of the baby items go to the Mom-to-be at the end of the game.  You can find cute little prizes at the dollar store.

The other poster is right.  There are tons of baby shower websites out there to snag ideas from  Have fun with it!

I would not pay the home office internet price unless they offer something incredible, for example, guaranteedd 24/7 service.  My cable internet company wanted me to switch over to business and when I asked what the difference in services was between paying 39.99 per month and 80.00 per month, I was told I would get first priority on service visits.  Really, I just kind of laughed at the guy...they wanted me to pay twice as much for a quicker service call (BTW, an average wait for a service call is 24 hours or so anyway). 

Anyway, I would not even mention the office use; residential use is the same thing. 

Good luck.. Jamie

I was put on an ophthamology account; I figured I'd need a book...  Nope, I've been using Google and getting by just fine.  There are plenty of sites. 

Try this site:  http://www.mtdownloads.com/

Books are so costly, and yet we can get just as much information from the internet if we search the right sites.  I wouldn't buy any books until you start the accounts. 

Call waiting can also affect it if you don't turn it off in your dialup settings.  Before I get technical, do you use dialup, DSL, cable or something else?

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Does anybody use ATT/SBC DSL?  If so, how is it?

I have Insight (cable), and I have a problem with no internet connections at least once every 2 weeks and thinking about switching.

Thanks!