By Sara on June 26, 2009
I’ve had a couple of people ask me how I’m having lyrics displayed on my iPhone/iPod. This is something that’s eluded me for a while now, so I thought I’d write it up. First off, you probably need to use iTunes for your music. Since iTunes is the easiest way to get music onto an iPod [...]
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By Sara on June 25, 2009
I can’t get myself to start typing this because I’m listening to music on my iPhone (built in iPod) and I’ve managed to load lyrics to almost all of my 1500 some songs. If I type then I can’t read along and the lyrics get lost. Music is sounding pretty good, even with just my CI. [...]
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By Sara on May 19, 2009
I’m trying to make at least weekly updates here… Things I’m hearing that I’ve honestly never considered hearing before: The electronic door lock at work beeps when I open it with my ‘wand’ The keys I wear around my neck at work clink as I walk My boss swishes as he walks across the room towards me (nice to [...]
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| Tagged band, beginnings, CI, saxophone
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By Sara on April 22, 2009
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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| Tagged busy, cochlear implant, PE Exam, Work
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By Sara on March 4, 2009
It was only a few weeks ago that my boss at work asked me what frequency an octave is. We were planning to do an acoustical test for some fire insulation and it came up in the discussion. He figured as a musician I would know. Never having studied acoustics, I didn’t, but Google did [...]
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| Tagged cochlear implant, hearing aids, hybrid, Music, piano, sound frequencies
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By Sara on February 16, 2009
Lately I keep finding myself with songs in my head from Sunset Boulevard. It’s a musical that won Tony awards in the early to mid 1990s. The sound track is from 1994 and features Glenn Close. I listened to many, many broadway musical soundtracks when I was in high school. I generally liked the stories and [...]
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| Tagged broadway, lyrics, Music, musicals
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