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Short Attention Span
Distractions got the best of me tonight. More tomorrow.
No, Really, It's OK, I'll Just Wait Over Here
I have a question.One that smells a little bit of self pity.I was so tired yesterday. Really, really tired. After work Joe and I went to see an small art installation in a public building. We wanted to check it out because it's sounded like something the girls would enjoy. Show More Summary
Sign of the Times?
A shorty to get back in the swing of things... If anyone will even see this... Today I had a session with one of my two therapists & for the second time in a row I walked in & handed her my phone immediately. Cued up to a Facebook/G-Chat I wanted her to read so we could process them. Show More Summary
Plus Ca Change
Economist Aaron Carroll compares the current Republican doomsaying about the Medicaid expansion with reactions to Medicaid’s debut in the 1960s and finds that not much has changed. Back then, conservatives were convinced that Medicaid would bankrupt the nation and health care providers would abandon the program in droves. Sound familiar? He concludes: It’s easy to [...]
Quill The Life of a Guide Dog Official Trailer #1 (2012) HD Movie
Saw this film the other night on Netflix. Enchanting movie about the bondformed between a guide dog and the human companions in his life. Subtitled.
Sign Here
In conversation with someone who reads my blog I was told that I tend to write fairly heavy blogs and that I should maybe 'lighten up' every now and then. I looked over my posts and agreed that the advice was solid. So today, I'm doing...Show More Summary
Critic At Large: Man Of Steel
Man of Steel is mostly an excuse to watch overpowered superpeople trash populated areas while we mere mortals cower in fear. And that’s fine. Plenty of movies play upon our secret desire to burn this mother down. But Man of Steel doesn’t do much else that might make its scenes of destruction part of a [...]
Handbook Rule A37R2
I broke disability rule A37R2.There is a restaurant that I've wanted to go to for a long time. I discovered it, accidentally, while browsing on the net. The web page showed pictures of a small, cosy and funky place. The menu - awesome. Show More Summary
Accessibility: New York vs London
At this point, I'm about ready to make some observations on moving around these two fabulous cities. My first thought is: if you want accessibility: go to San Francisco! I'm constructing four categories: bus, subway, taxi, and pedestrian. Bus I...Show More Summary
Red and White
I want to write of strawberries.I saw a box sitting, in the sun, on a shelf, beside broccoli. The greengrocer must have been in a rush this morning. Maybe he'd slept in. Maybe he'd had one too many. Or maybe, this morning, he was just being careless, placing pears beside the cabbage, plums by corn and left zucchini looking lonely set off to one side. Show More Summary
By George
I follow George Stroumboulopoulos' Facebook page as I think he posts some of the most interestingly 'talkable' stuff. He recently posted about 'right to die' legislation in Quebec. He has an active group of followers and the discussion is quite lively. Show More Summary
Jon Vs. John
My verdict on the first week of John Oliver hosting The Daily Show: not bad. He tries a little too hard to imitate Jon Stewart’s mannerisms, but that will probably fade once he settles in behind the desk. Oliver and the writing staff have gotten some good material out of the recent NSA leak and [...]
Granola
Perhaps it was because I was feeling tired.Perhaps it was because I was feeling a bit defeated.But perhaps I found it awesome because it truly was.Our morning had been horrible. I woke up to Joe panic screaming that the bus was coming in 20 minutes. Show More Summary
Profiles In Courage
Here’s a sentence I didn’t think I would be writing: Congratulations to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer for pushing an expansion of Medicaid through the state legislature. At least on this issue, she ignored the rantings of her fellow conservatives and did the right thing for her constituents. Perhaps other Republican governors will realize that they [...]
Guide dog in training saves trainers from out of control car
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Remote Storage
If Dmitry Itskov gets his way, I’ll be uploading my consciousness to a robot avatar in another 30 years or so. This seems like another case of ridiculously-wealthy-Russian-entrepreneur-with-too-much-free-time, but the idea is intriguing. I could get into all sorts of misadventures with my avatar, but this assumes that I won’t be teetering on the precipice [...]
Finding Me
Finding Me... dialogue follows below... Hello Before we begin, I should tell you that I'm just an animated character. But you knew that already didn't you? I am here to speak the words written down on a script that's been written just over there I was chosen to read the script after all the characters were looked through. Show More Summary
Um, Could We Talk About Something?
There is a little girl with a wild temper. She has an intellectual disability and she rages, not against her disability but against anything that she considers unfair. And a lot is unfair. So, there are a lot of rages. She had burned through support worker after support worker. Show More Summary
Saying goodbye: when an aide leaves
Losing a long term caregiver, especially one who has become a friend, isn't for the weak of heart.It sucks.There is a bond that forms, a rhythm of give and take, a miraculous dance of interdependence. Even imagining that stopping is painful. Show More Summary
