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Norwegian Sign Language?
This came into my email recently, pretty interesting…. If you’ve never checked out Couch Surfing before, their website is a global community of people who want to host and be house guests. We have hosted probably half a dozen times now. It’s always interesting to talk to different people and show them around town. The [...]
Dinner party
We were invited to dinner at a friend’s house last night. There were seven of us all together and I had met all but one of them at least once before. Last time we played a game called Loaded Questions. I remember having to make people repeat things again and again when it was my [...]
Saxophone Ensemble Video
http://www.youtube.com/saxcase
5 Months with a Cochlear Implant, Music and Lectures
First things first. Music with my cochlear implant is way way beyond my expectations. But I had pretty low expectations. Seriously, music sounds great now (5 months from activation). The CI adds a whole new layer of sounds that I couldn’t hear before. It helps bring out the lyrics. It adds the higher frequency percussion, cymbals, [...]
Blog topics brain dump!
I want to write! But there are so many things that I want to write about that I draw a blank when I open this window to start. Maybe a list will help… 4 months with CI CI #2? 2 CIs versus 1 CI and 1 HA versus bilateral EAS Music lately (wish I’d remembered to bring headphones [...]
Summer’s moving right along
Where does the time go? July 4th weekend my parents stopped to visit us here in Charlottesville. I had a band concert that Thursday night and another on the morning of the Fourth of July at Monticello. It’s always moving to see the naturalization ceremony conducted. Last year the guest speaker was the president (which one? [...]
An update in photos
It’s been a lovely lovely spring the last few days. The tulips and flocks have been out. Betsie has been keeping the lawn mowed short. Even the baby white clover I planted for her to chew on is doing great. I just scattered it around by hand – we’ll find out soon if this was a bad idea or [...]
Too busy to write = Too busy to worry
One week from now I’ll hopefully be done with surgery and on my way home if not already home. I won’t know what time to report on the 29th until the day before. Working backwards from there….. The night before surgery, Don and I will drive down to Chapel Hill and take up residence in the lovely [...]
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