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    Taking a happiness

    happy or the next best thing? Some where along the road of my life I came to understand that I cannot change what has happened and seeking a best way often falls woefully short. I was always a kind of wide open person with few strategies for protecting my mind or for affecting the world to work...
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    How do the deaf and blind communicate?

    The sunglasses and lipreading is a good point. Had it happen - running a crew in the spring then summer. Was able to lipread and understand, then the sunglass time of summer came and comprehension nosedived. Thanks Ron I thought it was just me.
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    why not aspire to speak?

    Hands & Voices? By the way this thread and others like it help understanding so much thanks to all of you!
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    Well I went back to my old Audi..ugh.

    No different than going to the new car lot It is a racket.
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    What did you learn today?

    I'm learning I don't know anything
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    Valentine's Day, love it or hate it

    I remember being an extremely shy boy in grade school oh how I hated this day.
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    Are you afraid of needles

    last time I had surgery I was laying there on the gurney with a light coverlet over me, waiting. There was a busy older nurse at a nearby desk doing paperwork. A bright young nurse comes in with out anyone with her to take blood. She looks kind of like a newby to me so I ask yep she is a...
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    Valentine's Day, love it or hate it

    oh the pain
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    The true definition of a word 'dating'

    there is sure no question that different people think different. To me the best date would be the one that did not happen and we ended up in the car in the driveway for three or four hours kissing and laughing and kissing somemore just happy to be together. No strain on the billfold, no wear...
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    BPA and Plastic Bottles

    In the Anchorage paper a while back was a story, a survey was done with a small group of people and the expensive tests were done on them to see what kinds of toxins they were really packing around in their blood. Oddly enough the lady that was probably the most health conscious and walking the...
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    What did you learn today?

    The inside as it warms up in there you keep patting down the walls as the snow on the surface dampens
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    Can hydration level affect earmold fit?

    I know for a fact That each and every day my body fluctuates slightly -- the hard hat that was comfortable at the end of the workday wont fit the next morning.. that sort of thing. It is a shame there is no way to have earmolds that shrink and expand along similar lines. I have worn the damn...
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    Can hydration level affect earmold fit?

    might try a different material for ear mold Different peoples skin react different with different materials. I prefer the hard plastic over the silicone type earmolds. For me no matter how often I clean the silicone it build bacteria and skin irritation much easier. So its softer surface...
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    What did you learn today?

    I learned about a kind of gold dredge called a Bazooka
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    What Ticks You Off (Most) About Hearies?

    alldeaf has been helpful Since coming here I am starting to learn more about dealing with hearing people. Just taking the step and differentiating is a useful tool. This is how isolated I have been with all of this. Most people really just don't know and need a little patient education. Some...
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    Why do you want to have kids? Reasons or no reasons?

    My mother did not make it through it. I was of course too young to remember her but the whole tragedy of it hit our little family hard for many many years. I am so happy you made it Shel!!
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    German Homeschoolers

    another thing In the homeschool situation there is still a curriculum - it is not just a free for all. It is just another way not everyone has all the things it takes to pull it off. Often there is a time when kids go back to public school as well. It is not a totally one way or another way...
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    Why do you want to have kids? Reasons or no reasons?

    The question I ask myself lately Would I if I was a kid want me for a parent?
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    What is your profession?

    industrial/commercial electrician Work in the construction field. I am doing what I have wanted to do since just before elementary school. Being a construction craftsman. The work side has been great, the social side not so good but has worked out well anyway. Several years in the exploration...
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    Do you like to use incense and if so, what scents do you like?

    In the days when shower or bath day was on Saturday morning once a week, incense was everywhere.
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