Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.

Angel ,'Not Fade Away'


Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 14, 2010 7:16:13 pm PST #11181 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"

I think the iPad is the way to go for schools because Dynavox systems often cot $5000+. So an iPad + software is less than a $1000.

Completely. There's so many other ways students can use iPads for learning, too. Assistive technology is going to start merging with regular technology, which will be great, especially in terms of cost. My friend can't use spoken language so uses computer software as a speech synthesiser. Really useful stuff.

Wishing Grace many successes.


beth b - Dec 14, 2010 7:18:19 pm PST #11182 of 30001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

One of my friends is a resource teacher -- and things like the nook and kindle that will read the text out loud gives another whole set of tools for her kids


meara - Dec 14, 2010 7:23:12 pm PST #11183 of 30001

ita, that Booboo kid is HOT. And should secretly be a very butch girl who is old enough for me, and not a teenage boy. Because DAMN.


shrift - Dec 14, 2010 7:29:41 pm PST #11184 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Kicked ass at work. Remembered to go to the bank. Made tacos. Cleaned up dinner. Groceries arrived, and I put everything away. Did some more Christmas shopping. Finished my Yuletide draft.

If I can manage to go to bed at a decent time, I will call today a success.


aurelia - Dec 14, 2010 7:35:24 pm PST #11185 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Hm. Any StL/KC peeps around? I'm supposed to be driving across IL and MO tomorrow and my mother called to tell me it's supposed to be icy all across I-70. The weather reports I've seen are less alarmist about it. What have you heard?


Liese S. - Dec 14, 2010 7:57:48 pm PST #11186 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Non-quotey meara, for lo, I am cut-n-pasteless.
 
Bwah! I love the "tolerant" comment. That`s awesome.
 
We totally fed our Mormons. They were skinny! And tired from all the walking! Even when we were less rural, we were still pretty rural.
 
Yay Kat on Gracie school and the Dynavox stuff. Less yay on the OT. Those things you mention are definitely things a competent OT could work on. What`s the status with the trache?


Atropa - Dec 14, 2010 8:00:05 pm PST #11187 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Jesse or ita, prod me tomorrow to mention the Good Things Happened tumblr on Twitter. I want to promote it, I just want to make sure I do that when there will be more people online than now.


Kathy A - Dec 14, 2010 8:30:10 pm PST #11188 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Happy belated birthday, Typo Boy!

Well, I managed to get out to the grocery store and just bought what was on my list, except I did pick up a pack of hangers that were prominently displayed on an endcap. You can't have too many hangers! I did get a small 8 inch frying pan, to accommodate my smaller serving size needs by the end of the month (I don't need my bigass frying pan for one or two scrambled egss).

I finally started my pureed foods today. Breakfast was my usual Greek yogurt (finished off the container), but a very late lunch was a half cup of mashed banana, and then I made up that Bear Creek chili and pureed about a third of it for the next few days worth of lunch and dinners. Very tasty, indeed!

Next week, I'll be able to start moving onto very soft foods, including egg salad, my favorite! Looking forward to that.

ETA: Speaking of hangers, I'm going to have to look through my closet for my next size smaller pants, which I'm sure I still have somewhere. My current pants are constantly slipping off my butt when I stand up, and it's becoming annoying!


Liese S. - Dec 14, 2010 8:37:16 pm PST #11189 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

YAY Kathy! I am so excited to hear about your progress!


Spidra Webster - Dec 14, 2010 8:53:54 pm PST #11190 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Congrats, Kathy! I hope the recovery from the surgery is going well as could possibly be.

Here's another cold clime thing I have been ignorant of because I've lived my entire life in coastal CA - Neil Gaiman was just mentioning on Twitter that there are loud crack sounds that frighten his dogs - its the sap in trees freezing as it expands and thus cracking the branches.