Category Archives: Writers

Court Reporting is all about letting your fingers do the talking

Poor and confused (Not really)

First, the stats: two tests to go and new semester begins September 15th. Sacco, teacher of great fame and skill, has departed NYCI. Replaced by another teacher. (No comment. Yet.) Got a new writer. Starting over. Not really “starting over,” but this new writer requires a school of its own. Can a tool be too [...]

Everything’s all right

In case you haven’t been following my court reporting saga, the latest news was that I had finally upgraded to a realtime machine for the rest of my studies. I got a Stentura 200SRT and caseCATalyst4. They worked great except for one problem—they wouldn’t work together. Oops. The realtime cable arrived yesterday and everything is [...]

My new (expletive deleted) reporting stuff

So. I got my writer. I got my software. I charged it like a good girl. I turned it on. Cleared the memory. Correct light combinations. Hmm. I turned it on to “student mode.” Yep, green and red lights working properly. OK. I installed caseCATalyst4 without incident, including the goofy USB key. OK. Got in, [...]

Revolutionary Theories

Today I’ll be receiving my Stentura 200 SRT and caseCATalyst4 software. I expect to spend this chilly weekend working on my dictionary and breaking in my new writer. Also, now that I’ve moved up to 160 at school I need to have Scott record some new audio drills for this speed and a few steps [...]

Done and done (Not really done)

Well, this has been an eventful week. First of all, I passed out of 140 WPM on Thursday. The funny thing was, is I had actually done well on two 160 tests (I would have passed) but for some reason I couldn’t get past the requisite 140 test. I just had one! What was wrong!? [...]