Archive for August, 2008
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Today
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Stuff
Lew says I’m acting like a kid with a new set of Tinker-Toys. Benny says I look and sound funny. Yeah, I’m having fun taking my new chair apart and rebuilding it. Today was footrest day. I got Lew involved in threading two bolts through six holes that had to be perfectly in line.
I’m beginning [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Joy Shtick
What I thought would be a fifteen minute task, twenty at most, turned into an all day project. “Mom” the previous owner of my new chair, had said that they had to remove the swing-away bracket for the joystick because it made the chair too wide to fit through the door on her full sized [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Yeeeee! Haaaaaaa!
Get out of my way, you plebeian pedestrians!
Man, have I got to be the luckiest person on the planet! This is the chair I would have bought for myself (if insurance had been paying for it). The only thing this chair is missing is tie-down points (and I’ve lived without those for forever). I went [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Heading Out on the Highway
Get your motor running
Head out on the highway
Looking for adventure
In whatever comes our way.
Did you know that if you’re looking for road songs, you can find the lyrics on the web site for the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration? http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/roadsong.htm
Well, I needed a theme song for this post. Tomorrow, I’m headed out [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Hernia Surgery
Lew was supposed to have his inguinal hernia fixed today. I assume you noticed the past tense. We canceled his surgery last week. He’s too sick to add any more to his problems.
When Dr. Chemo first prescribed the anti-fungal med, he said it might give Lew another two or three months. And when we saw [...]