I like your idea of acting on the keyboard as if the person was seated across from you in living room. Good advice!
I hope all goes well for you and yours now and in future—and hey you have been here long enough you are not a newbie :)
It has served me well in many forums. And I didn’t mean to imply that I was a newbie. Although when I was, I made a few uninformed missteps and there were calls for Viking Kitties and Zots to come on my head. :) Not exactly a friendly how ya do?