{"id":34,"date":"2006-10-12T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2006-10-12T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-10-16T21:35:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T20:35:17","slug":"34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/2006\/10\/34\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finished off a series of three articles for accessites.org<\/a> yesterday. The first is due to be published on October 16th.<\/p>\n

Spent the day working on a couple of client sites and doing some paperwork for the accountants. Managed to find time to try out my new, smaller, graphic tablet which arrived yesterday afternoon. It’s a lot less bulky than my older A4 monster, so I may actually use it more.<\/p>\n

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K’s new computer desk arrived shortly after lunchtime. It looks fine but I’m not sure it’s built to withstand a 6 year old.<\/p>\n

Still struggling with severe deafness. R has to repeat almost everything two or three times before I can hear him. and that’s with<\/strong> the hearing aid. Without it, conversation is almost impossible unless I’m directly facing people. We’re supposed to be going to a final DWCon 2006 debriefing on 21st. I’m dreading it. Unless my hearing improves drastically between now and then, I’m going to miss most of what is being said. <\/p>\n

I’ll be taking my portable loop but it does feel a bit weird pointing this black box at people whenever they talk. If there’s a rapid exchange, I end up feeling like some sort of frantic reporter who is always half a second too late! Added to which, I always<\/strong> have to explain what it is – otherwise people give me some very strange looks.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, I’m far happier avoiding conversations right now. It’s just too much work. That may sound terribly anti-social but it really is hard work. Plus, I can see people getting visibly fed up when they’re asked, yet again, to repeat something for the third time – even when they’re trying very hard to hide their impatience. Sometimes it’s just easier all round to nod, make non-committal noises and pretend that I can follow what’s going on.<\/p>\n

I wish I could find some lip-reading classes. I lip-read pretty well (or so I’ve been told) but I think my skills could be improved. Problem is – I can’t find a local course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finished off a series of three articles for accessites.org yesterday. The first is due to be published on October 16th. Spent the day working on a couple of client sites and doing some paperwork for the accountants. Managed to find time to try out my new, smaller, graphic tablet which arrived yesterday afternoon. It’s a lot less bulky than my older A4 monster, so I may actually use it more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[69],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackwidows.co.uk\/iad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}