Category: Junk Drawer

Insanity

My adventures of being pushed to the brink of insanity began in March 2003 on a sunny day around lunch time. On Fridays, I worked at home and this was a typical Friday except I was eight months pregnant. While making the bed in my room, Paul entered and scared the hell out of me. …

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ENG Postponed

Had to postpone today’s ENG as I’ve been sick (yet again) over the weekend. Still had the sinus infection from the surgery that never went completely away. Then, I was sick with some virus after I started taking antibiotics for the sinus infection. Pretty rundown and obviously in no shape to face the ENG. So …

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ENG

I am having an ENG (electronystagmography) on Monday as the next step to determine why I have dizziness and vertigo. As I’ve previously mentioned, it’s been a problem for many years. It was noticeable in high school, I believe. It has gradually worsened. I used to be able to ride roller coasters. The last few …

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Online Captioning

Best practices in online captioning from Joe Clark, the author of Building Accessible Web Sites. This is detailed report that no Web site team should be without especially if there is a lot of multimedia on the site. Government Web sites are required, by law, to meet accessibility guidelines and Joe’s work will serve as …

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iPod Nightmare

Trying to get an iPod to practice listening. Boy, the roadblocks are everywhere. I wrote about it in the other blog. I’ve been wanting a portable MP3 player as a tool to help me with my listening skills, but I put that want away as I know it is not a necessity during these tough …

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Hospital… Revisited

If you’ve read this blog since the beginning, you know I’ve been in the hospital twice. Once for the implant and once for the after effects when I got dehydrated. Heh, I ended up in the hospital again, but nothing to do with the implant. That’s five times in 16 months. If you want to …

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Smoke Signals

This has been the week (actually, year, but worse this week than in a long, long time) from h-e-double hockey sticks (gotta keep this site G-rated). My daughter had to go to the ER last night (she’s fine). My older son has been acting up at school. A project suddenly fell apart. I wish it …

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