Tag: TMI
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Nice to see verification
Lately I’ve managed to pin down the vestibular stuff (probably Menieres) to spring and fall, and then more specifically to convective days. When wind is coming and going, and when popup storms are forming and moving around, the balance and tinnitus and general icky feeling are also moving around. Looking back on the daily journal,…
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Today is RYPBLTTFMYEBNMWIWNE Day!
Today is Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought No Matter What It Was No Excuses Day. (Probably one of Adrian Koopersmith’s special days.) The website says: Think about the first album or singles you ever purchased. Listen to those recordings and think about what was going on in your…
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Lots of buzz, no ring
The latest NewSuperstitionist has a big headline about a cure for tinnitus. I read it eagerly, but the article doesn’t live up to its billing. First, the finding is only about noise-induced tinnitus, which isn’t my problem. I first noticed the ringing around age 8, long before I was exposed to noise, and the baseline…
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Isn’t that illegal?
Yesterday a local house-buying scam sent me an awfully realistic-looking fake check for the appraised value of my house. It had my name, the name of the company, and an amount, all filled in properly. The letter said that I could “turn this into an actual check” by letting them buy the house. Why would…
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Message from dream
I’m feeling a bit better lately, as my semicircular canals gradually close down their annual Spring Dance Festival. The Fest was longer and louder this year for unknown reasons, probably just aging. I’m also getting more sleep, creating a virtuous circle. Less trouble with different head positions leads to more sleep leads to less trouble,…
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NHS right as usual
Purely personal, partly trying to recompense for previous mentions of the subject. The current postwar mess, with every business overworked and understaffed, means a lot of waiting and missed appointments and broken promises. But after you wade through the shit, the actual performance is excellent. In the previous postwar mess around 1948, industries tried to…
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Official Hobbies
Totally random thought. In my father’s generation, men were expected to have an “Official Hobby”. For most this was a “Sport”, and it had to be “Golf”, of course. Nothing else was even thinkable. For other men the “Official Hobby” was “Philately (that’s stamp collecting)” or “Carpentry”. A wider range of collecting or crafting was…
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Astrology wins
I started keeping a daily worklog for life in 2016, after realizing the value of worklogs in work projects. The lifelog gets more ‘chatty’ every year. At first it was just dumps and sleeps, now I try to notice and write down everything that might be relevant. Looking back at previous logs makes it easy…
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Absorbed despite
Despite my nasty response to this crap about niceness, the basic point must have soaked in. After spitting out the nastiness I laid down for the second segment of sleep, and received a dream about conversation over coffee at Denny’s. At the end of the conversation I said “Thanks, that was fun!” and shook the…
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Grandma’s salience rule
One of my base rules for writing comes from Grandma. Around age 60 she was acutely conscious that most old folks repeated the same dull story over and over. She declared: If I can’t say something new, I’m not going to say anything at all. Salience or silence. I always try to follow Grandma’s rule…
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Text snappers
I’ll often get a strange contradictory semi-dream after a few minutes of drift. The semi-dream snaps me into wakedom, which is a good thing in an intended brief ‘reset’ nap. It’s not a good thing at the start of an intended full sleep. Example from 2017: I was hiding inside the upholstered front seat of…
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Finished the task.
Done with the proofreading and checking of courseware. Took about a week of fulltime work after several months of anticipation and waiting for shoes to drop. Organized the task, uploaded about 130 lessons for three different books, ran through each lesson to completion, made sure each registered in the gradebook. I wasn’t trying to check…
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Yaaaayy!
Purely personal. The latest version of courseware was completed in July, and I submitted it to the publisher. Supposedly they had a deadline of Dec 31 to check it over and send it out. They wanted me to verify that it can work in the Canvas LMS. Canvas is now the most popular LMS, overtaking…
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Maybe too fair
Via Eurekalert. = = = = = START QUOTE: Experts today call for more value to be given to patients’ ‘lived experiences’ as a study of over 1,000 patients and clinicians found multiple examples of patient reports being under-valued. The research, led by a team at the University of Cambridge and Kings’ College London, found…
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Simmering 2
The simmering metaphor in previous item reminded me of a picture I’ve been wanting to make. Back in 1970 when I got out of prison, my first experience with independent life was in this duplex in Stillwater. My Zenith Trans-Oceanic helped to pull me out of the walls and back into the larger world. I…
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