Recent content by Codger

No, no music yet. Maybe this weekend I'll dig out some older stuff and give it a listen. Music had always been a big part of my life. In my youth, I was in many musicals. Fiddler on the roof, Oklahoma, Lil' Abner, My fair lady, Oliver, Music man, Hair. Then in college I was in the touring...

Thank you Highlands! I didn't realize how difficult it would be readjusting. It seems like my ears are worn out at the end of the day when I take my HA's out! I still haven't figured out the program sequence correctly. Program three (three loud beeps) is the only cue I can hear. The other three...

Thanks Roadrunner! Well, the batteries are cheap enough, and the first month's worth were gratis with the three grand hearing aids, so their life isn't a problem. They actually last longer than I expected. It is just a major adjustment hearing again. I am post-lingual deafened/HOH, and I really...

I just got my first hearing aids after a several year struggle with State and private agencies to get funding. Talk about frustrating! Well, getting used to them is awkward, as I guess anything new and worthwhile is. Using a telephone is a pain. I have to adjust them before answering, and hope I...

True. And jails/prisons are more expensive on a per-person basis than shelters and programs run by civic organizations. Jails are also crime schools. A larger percentage of the homeless are not there by choice, and aren't crackheads and alkies. May you have the excellent good fortune to...

Life is all about choices... From the day we express our individuality as toddlers, we make choices. We choose what to wear, what to eat, what books to read. We choose our friends, and usually choose our enemies. We decide for ourselves what is right, and what is wrong. And we choose to be sad...

Well, the case has been concluded. In a nutshell, the governmink lawyers decided based on the testimony of the governmink employees involved, that I had full and equal access since I could lip read, and my wife was there to interpret for me. ADA is a toothless paper tiger that pays government...

The meeting went well enough. I still was not given a terp or text. Evidently, the decision to return my daughter to school, promote her to the ninth grade, and keep her on probation had already been made. But the ADA suit is still out there. I received a questionare from the DOE Civil Rights...

I finally "heard" from the case attorney this week. The son of a beach dweller called me. Then I finally got him to call my wife and get my e-mail address. Now, school starts back August 8th, with registration a few days before, and a reinstatement hearing on August first. er....about ten days...

Yes, that is where I received direction to the U.S. Dept. Of Ed. Civil Rights folks.

You know one in Tennessee? Decatur County? (Jackson, Nashville)

Update I have not heard a mumbling word from them since April 8th. Today is June 25th. My daughter finished the school year May 23rd in alternative school with good grades, and is scheduled to go before the board on August 1st for her reinstatement hearing, placing her back in mainstream...

Sorry, but radar does not work underwater. Submersables and even surface vessels use sonar (including Greenpeace ships) to see underwater. That is sound wave reflections (echos) not radar (electrical pulse returns).

Many Protestant denominations do not allow female Ministers, priests and Bishops. They have doctrinal reasons. I am not saying right or wrong, just that it is. And to expect them to change their doctines and beliefs because society at large changes moral beliefs is a bit of a stretch.

600 feet? They let him jump with the plane too low and in a turn! Idjuts!