Ears bleeding yet??

If I discussed this topic more, y’all wouldn’t just gain an appreciation for hearing . Trust me, you guys have NO LACK of appreciation for that . Y’all would realize that really the only difficulty we deafies have are the roadblocks you guys put into societal structures. It’s the same sort of deal with wheelchair accessible curbs and ramps. There’s no reason the able bodied can’t use them as usefully (think mom with a stroller for instance) and they’re as easy to build in but the insistence on stairs kiboshes that. (And once they’re in, it’s much more expensive to convert/expand). You can’t convince me y’all can hear the announcements made at the gates in airports and why captioning isn’t universal everywhere (you know the biggest user of captioning is? people trying to learn the language!). Signing I give a pass on, though it’s fun to use… and can be terribly useful as I mentioned above…

Anyway, I’m out for the day! I will be back either late late tonight or tomorrow morning. So clean up after yourselves and have fun on the beach…

It’s fun! That and my brain seems to be in defaut DJ mode at work. When the Muzak generator plays the most impossible set i cringe. Two different songs without even the remotely same tone one after the other make my ears bleed. It’s better than it used to be last year but it still is a computer putting together sets randomly, therefore you get the most horrible things quite often.

I ignore it altogether when things are busy, but when we slow down there’s not anything in the world that can make stop cringing when that happens.

Originally Posted By aliasofwestgate at 1:30 am

Ah, the never-ending quest for The Perfect Segue. Remember it well from my college radio days.

Today is put up the Christmas tree day Madkiddies are beyond excited. I am too, since I finally got the skinny artificial tree I’ve been wanting for ages. I love the deocrating, but do not love vacuuming up pine needles till Easter. Plus I always worry about fire since we keep the tree up for so long. It’s supposed to rain today so the outside decorating will have to wait till tomorrow. It’s just not Christmas around here until the sattelites can see my house from outer space

Thanks for smilin at my silly . . .

As to YOUR endeavors, it’s all Greek to me . . .

And I used to speak Vietnamese, French, Lao, Thai and engrish, all as a child. I’ve lost it all for the most part.

I still have an ‘ear’ for some languages, but Spanish came to me from 20 years in the restaurant biz . . . and the bad words and phrases are what stand out . . . I couldn’t hold a polite conversation with good grammar if I HAD to . . I so admire those who can pursue Japanese or any of the Chinese dialects . . . brutal, like Russian and the Slav languaes . . .

Larue

More like Hybrid’s Keep It In the Family sliding into Vivaldi’s Storm with side trip to hear Loveholic’s Hru ryumi. There’s no such thing as a language i haven’t liked in song. I find it amusing that i’ve learned more japanese via song than i have through actual lesson work. Even if the learning the simple written stuff (katakana and hiragana) make me all the time. But i WILL learn it.

Originally Posted By aliasofwestgate at 1:30 am . . . If they slapped an EKG on my head and played music, i wonder what it’d look like?

A Hammond B3 Organ doing Whiter Shade Of Pale, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, John Barleycorn and Positively 4th Street . . .

Dang, way kewl! Ain’t fresh rosemary something wonderful?

I often will take some chicken stock, knife up REAL fine some fresh rosemary and slice some fresh garlic chives up. Bring it to a boil, and just sip it. SO good feeling for when I’m clogged up sinus wise or just in need of something.

Added fresh ginger, hot chili paste or other source of heat, and a noodle or two is killer, also . . .

Then ya get into adding the meats, other veggies and such.

Or using clam base, or bonito seasonings (really expensive to make that miso at home) and some salad shrimp and thai fish sauce . . .

Course, for the REALLY hearty winter dish, ya gotta get out yer deep dutch oven cast iron toy and make some yosenabe!!!!

Originally Posted By Laura at 1:10 am@larue at 1:08 am – But the song is used in the Stand By Me movie (set, I believe, in the era when it was a hit).

Yes it was, but that’s not the same . . .

A movie in ‘87 evokes different reactions than the original in ‘61 . . .

The movie totally changes the meaning of the song from its original intent and impact as WE heard it back then . . . . or heard it afterwards . . . but you know how us old fogies are about OUR teenaged angst ridden years . . .

Originally Posted By Peanut Butter at 12:35 am30 Years Ago Today (Nov 27, that is)
Watching From the Sidelines

Watching From The Sidelines-nice read.

But I’ll go to my GRAVE knowing exactly what Bush II was gonna do when he stole the elections . . . I KNEW he was gonna ruin the country.

And thanks for sharing those links . . .

I may be a ‘hearie’ but i dream in technicolor with ’stereo sound’ as i call it. I know i’m having a lucid dream if the sound is so vivid that i can’t tell the difference!

It’s why i can do such a good job DJing too. I remember the the overall ‘tone’ of most anything i hear and can slap it into a set generally after one or two hearings of the track. If they slapped an EKG on my head and played music, i wonder what it’d look like?