I wish I could read my notes…
I may have written some brilliant stuff this past week. I have a notebook jam-packed with handwritten notes. However, now there is the problem of deciphering all that chicken scratch and turning it into something eloquent. That’s not going to happen soon since I’m still under the influence, which could explain the tons of chicken scratch notes.
Perhaps I can locate a chicken scratch interpreter. Then again, maybe I don’t want to know what it says. This all goes back to the post the other day and that wondrous word ‘gibberish.’ What I wrote in that chicken scratch could be nothing but gibberish.
Once my head clears, once I can breathe again, I will try to sit down and puzzle out what I wrote in this notebook. You never know, it could be brilliant.
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Doggonedmysteries 
I am very amused at the connection between your blog today and that of Lee Lofland’s. He describes a group of machines that are used to make indented writing visible – the way we used to lightly rub a pencil over the marks left on the next page. Only, what he left out was who would be qualified to read the ‘indented marks’.
I’d love to know who that might be since at one time, following the advice of a ‘how to’ writing book I tried making notes in the middle of the night. From what I could read the next day, it was not the Great American Novel. In fact it seemed to be total gibberish.
There’s a career opportunity for someone. Can you imagine the resume?
Qualifications: can accurately translate this chicken scratch: “tp tp pt doo dish mater chop”
recently successfully figured out wth “count fingers perif” was supposed to mean and wrote a complete article.
ROFLMAO! 🙂