So this morning I decided that the best way to start playing with the sound recorder in Audio Commander was to dig out one of my old story notebooks and read from that. This means I've got a written version to refer back to, in order to check the dictation without having to listen to my own voice, which is something I always find very offputting. It's also doing something useful, because I've got some notes and scraps of stories I might still want to work on some day which I've never got around to typing up.
First problem: find the notebooks. They weren't where I first looked, which is in the small filing cabinet next to my desk, which tends to get used as a dumping ground for Stuff. nor were they in the box of stationery bits and pieces on the bookcase behind me. I thought at first that I must have tidied them away before a parental visit (because who wants their parents reading their porn notes), and then I remembered that for once in my life I had been Organised, and put them away in the archive filing cabinet.
And that's where they were. Five notebooks, one of which was blank and one which has only a couple of paragraphs of a fanfic story the rest of which has completely disappeared from my memory. I suspect it's fallen down the memory hole which was the reason why I started carrying the A6 size notebook around in my handbag in the first place -- there were a couple of years where I had no short-term memory whatsoever, courtesy of medication side effects, and if I didn't write stuff down as soon as I thought of it, it would be gone for good.
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