Celebrated National Handwriting Day with a Faceplant

Celebrated National Handwriting Day with a Faceplant

Hope your National Handwriting Day (http://www.wima.org/NationalHandwritingDay/tabid/79/Default.aspx) was better than mine. Picked up some hardware for a planned computer upgrade that became more urgent after some sort of software failure botched the ability of apps to save settings. Passwords won't save. Internet TV in Windows Media Center crashes. Needed a second had drive for storage anyway, so it kind of works out to have that place to move my files as I re-install Windows. What didn't work out was hitting my face on concrete steps at the Reston Town Center.

Day was all wrapped up and Tanya and I were entering the parking structure when I stumbled on the concrete steps. Should have caught myself but I had my hands in my pockets due totter cold. Scraped my face and cut my lip pretty good. Doesn't look that bad in the photo but that's after the blood was washed off. The scrape is going to make me look like a drooling vampire tomorrow. Hit my top canine too. Definitely scraped it a little, but it's not loose, so it's fine.

After getting home, I cleaned up, installed the hardware, and now I'm waiting for Windows to re-install. Yep, not letting a little concrete kiss impede my computer upgrade. One of the benefits of having fallen so often as a child is learning how to deal with it.

So that and seeing the Green Hornet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet_%282011_film%29), which was quite good, is how I spent National Handwriting Day 2011.
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National Handwriting Day 2010

National Handwriting Day 2010

Another year, another day dedicated to penmanship. Yep, January 23rd, the birthday of John Hancock, is National Handwriting Day (http://www.wima.org/NationalHandwritingDay/tabid/79/Default.aspx), as designated by WIMA Here's hoping eReaders with pen input and perhaps the mythic Apple tablet will renew interest in digital ink and handwriting.
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It am National Handwriting Day!

It am National Handwriting Day!

John Hancock's birthday is upon us again, that magical day designated as National Handwriting Day (http://www.wima.org/consumer/index.htm) by WIMA. And once again, I have no special means of celebrating it. What am I going to do? Handwrite a blog entry about it? Post something handwritten? That's the most mundane thing I could do. Yet here I am doing it. As I do with every ink blog entry. Merry NHD!
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It's National Handwriting Day!

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It's National Handwriting Day!

Here in the States, the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (http://www.wima.org/consumer/index.htm) named January 23rd, National Handwriting Day!

The day was chosen because it is the birthday of John Hancock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock), whose signature on the Declaration of Independence is so outstanding that his name has become eponymous with the word signature. A more appropriate date I cannot imagine.

I missed NHD the past couple of years so I marked it on my Outlook calendar for this year (written in using Tablet Enhancements for Outlook (http://www.tabletoutlook.com/teo/default.aspx), of course). Anyway, after reading all the typed mentions of NHD on the Internet, I thought I'd spill some ink on the subject, and give it a proper handwritten shout-out. Happy NHD! Go out and write something!