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By Sara on September 22, 2010
The past week and a half I’ve been emptying the garage to turn it into a true studio to work in. This was prompted by a trip to Ikea. I took a before picture: And that led me to notice how awful the place looked… even not counting the mess of stuff everywhere. I made my plans for [...]
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By Sara on March 18, 2010
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 [...]
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By Sara on January 10, 2010
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 [...]
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| Tagged dinner, groups, Hearing
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By Sara on October 21, 2009
There’s been a trend developing over the last few years to offer software applications that you can use from just a web browser. I’m typing in one right now, WordPress. GMail is another. They have gotten very sophisticated in recent years. Quite a few benefits are provided too. The software is constantly upgraded without your [...]
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| Tagged bookkeeping, crm, freshbooks, invoices, mint, outright, saas, slides, small business, zoho
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By Sara on October 2, 2009
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, [...]
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| Tagged bimodal, cochlear implant, PE Exam, saxophone
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By Sara on September 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By Sara on July 21, 2009
Let’s start with a photo: These slide carousels have been sitting there for over a year now. Where did they come from? Well, I have a home business called Slides In A Flash where I convert old slide photos to digital images. Last summer I had a lovely man say he was going to send me [...]
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| Tagged business, cleaning, digitize, ebay, slides, slides in a flash
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By Sara on July 17, 2009
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? [...]
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