Showing posts with label Skeleton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skeleton. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Hear ye! Hear ye! I can! I can! Thrills and spills with little kids, and other wonders.

My first day of interacting with people with the help of Ruth, right ear aid, and Laura, left ear aid,  has proved interesting.  I waited till I'd finished my hair this morning, which involves a lot of water poured through it, to make it wearable, before inserting r and l, because they don't like to get wet. I sympathize.

Then I found that I could hear the old tablet volume fine, the one I'm replacing, because I couldn't hear (!) and the phone, which was audible,  now needs the volume turned down. 

At the mammo and dexa building, I was successful in finding it this time, not wandering hopelessly, as usual,  around the nextdoor, identical, building.  Anyway, there, I could hear all the instructions!! Even when the technician talked as she walked in front of me. Or turned her head away.

The bonescan machine that hovers and beeps over you was really loud, those beeps much more SF and ominous than the polite little murmurs I used to hear.  So I've been missing a lot more than I knew. I don't think I mind missing those beeps, though.

And now I'm up to date, until the next round of labs and visits in September. First, Labor Day and I think chicken salad. Must make mayo.

In other news, in from Israel, here's before

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See that large, perfect old clay jar on the right? Then a family with a bright little kid arrived. After

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I can guar.an.tee you he moved so fast nobody could catch him.   Also I expect the jar was rare because bronze age four year olds broke all the others.  

The Museum director handled it with great kindness. No blame. They're getting the jar restored, well, at least they know they have all the pieces, unlike many ancient finds. Then it will be back on display, and the family will be invited back to see it all repaired, with a label explaining it all.

Meanwhile here's an item from today's Freecycle

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I don't think I want to know.

Happy day everyone, if there's a skeleton in your closet, I know how you can take care of it.

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