Foiled By Chemistry

[bloodyrosemccoy]

So I was wanting to post about the nifty stuff I got from the Gem Faire fairies,* my miniature victory garden, and of course the traditional What I Learned yesterday, but instead I spent half the day shelving books OH GOD WHY DID I TAKE THESE EXTRA SHIFTS and the entire day wondering why I was feeling like grilled shit. Itchy, skin-crawly grilled shit.

Then last night I reached for my pillbox and found that instead of putting in a Fukitol, a Zyrtec, and a The Pill, I had put in two Fukitols and no Zyrtecs for every day this week. Yes, that would pretty much cover the feelings of lousy.

At least I caught the medswitch after the first day. All should be better at this point, except that I still have to go do four more hours of shelving in a little while. With luck I’ll get a What I Learned or some sort of post up soon.

Meanwhile, enjoy this conversation Mom and I had at Office today:

AMELIA: *shouting into the phone* MR GROMPUS, YOUR WIFE’S APPOINTMENT IS AT ELEVEN TOMORROW. ELEVEN. YOUR WIFE. YES, THAT WOULD BE MRS GROMPUS. NO, NOT TODAY. TOMORROW. YES. AN APPOINTMENT. GOOD-BYE. *hangs up* Dammit, if you’re hard of hearing perhaps the telephone is not your best option.

MOM: *cackling* That’ll all be your generation** in a few years … shouting into the phone, yelling “WHAT!” after every sentence …

AMELIA: You wish! We’ll just text.

MOM: …

AMELIA: That’s right, my dear Golden-Era-Rock Deaf-Going Analog-Age Baby Boomer! This generation planned ahead!

MOM: I’ll get you next time, you smug bastard.


*Not to mention the aggressive friending I was subjected to at the Faire. It was awesome.

**Us kids with our iPods and our loud musics and our Twitters are going to go deaf prematurely, according to Mom.

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

And after that, braille keyboards for everyone!

(Back in college, I had a job scanning/OCRing texts for various students who needed text-to-speech versions of their reading material. There was one guy in the class after mine who was blind, who'd come in once in a while for exams I'd proctor. He had a laptop attached to this sort of panel of flat-headed pins that he'd lay his fingers on, and the pins would bounce up and down--in Braille, I assume?--to give him the text. It was one cool piece of tech.)

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

I'm not at all surprised tech like that exists, but I'd never heard of it before. Totally awesome.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

It was one of those pieces of tech that I never would have thought of, but seemed entirely obvious the instant I did see one. It looked like a more modern version of the one pictured here, as I recall, though I imagine they have better yet now with an extra 8 years or so of development available.

[black-rider.livejournal.com]

Oh that's brilliant! I love stuff that's like "well of course it exists" but you'd never ever imagine it on your own.

I've added you, because I like internet-stalking interesting people, feel free to add back or not. :)

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm interesting!

(I mostly ramble about random stuff. You are thus Warned. At least now that I have a twitter account, I'm less likely to post three times a day on LJ about what I had for lunch and how I feel about the weather.)

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I knew a blind guy in college with one of those things. And yeah, it's braille. He was a jazz drummer.