I saw something about this while looking at Twitter. The first time I saw it, it just sort of made me raise my eyebrows. Then I saw it again, and I gave it some more thought. So here’s the story, as much as I understand it. Some researchers in Toronto have built a hitchhiking robot. …
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I Think He Had More Than A Snoring Problem
I read about this story not too long after I was out of the hospital. In true me fashion, I let out a scream when it got crazy…and then thought, in light of current circumstances, maybe that was dumb. Poor Steve, the scream must have been pretty painful-sounding, because he came in a hurry, thinking …
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Train In Vein
After my hospital adventures, I had a point driven home to me. My veins suuuuck! Holy crap do they suuuck! For years I had to have blood work every 3 months. I didn’t really mind, they’d poke me, take what they needed, it was all over in a second. I’d just go in there, offer …
Elections Ontario: We Make Voting Easy…Except We Don’t.
I was going to write about this anyway, but then I got a request for it. Awesome! People like reading about our wacky adventures. I feel bad that this is only going up the night before the actual election day, so can’t help anyone else who might want to use assistive voting, but oh well. …
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A Non-Inspirational Inspirational TED Talk
I saw this tweeted as I was coming home on the bus the other day…who knows why I was looking at Twitter while riding the bus, but there I was. I watched it, and thought “hey, this is totally what we’ve been saying in different forms in the blind guy user’s manual over the years.” …
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The Attitude
Here is another dive into the backlog that is stuff we have to post about. Gill sent this to us, but I felt I couldn’t put it up until I wrote my epic about my gallbladder adventures. Since I barely squeaked that up in time to start another work week, Gill’s post took a back …
Tansy is now 3.
Yeah, I should be in bed…gotta be at work in the morning. But I have to say quickly that Tansy turned 3 on Saturday. The pooch is growing up. She’s been through a lot, including 8 days without me…which she took like a champ. Since I should be crashing, I guess I’ll just quickly say …
My Gall Darn Gallbladder!
You know how the song goes? “What day is it, and in what month? This clock never seemed so alive.” That’s kind of how I feel about May. I would really like some of it back if I could so I could not spend it in hospital. Yes, hospital. Steve mentioned he was running to …
Moms
Yeah…this is a sign of how absolutely nuts this last month has been. Gill sent this to us, and it was supposed to be a Mother’s Day post. She sent us material, and we were too friggin insane busy to get it up on the site. It’s now June 1, and here it is. Um…I …
The Freedom I Find In A Guide Dog
I’m going to try and get into 2 carnivals in a row. Holy crap! So, the topic of this carnival is freedom. Funnily enough, for me, I had a bit of a harder time coming up with something. I blame being busy and tired. But after thinking for a while, I think I settled on …