This passage caught my eye:

"I eyeballed the Wyse terminal in the office behind her. "I thought you said you had Microsoft Word running on that?" I asked. "My handwriting's not very good ... mind if I use it?"

I'm just wondering, do you, fellow typists, suffer from a similar atrophy of handwriting skills? I was never any good to begin with, even when they used to drill us pretty hard about penmanship back in grade school. Let's just say things have only gone downhill from there.