16 years and counting

I had planned on writing a pretty detailed entry, but the bladder problems I was having yesterday were so bad that they have continued into today.  I do, however, think the remedy is possibly going to work.  Unfortunately I am starting to think that I might have contracted a UTI.  I guess I’ll check the urine tonight to see if there are too many white blood cells in it.  If so then I’ll go turn a sample and tomorrow.

The further I am separated from that terrible day, the less it really matters anymore.  It has really helped considerably that I have been celebrating the day I got off the respirator, August 8, 1995, instead of concentrating on the day I was hurt.  Accentuate the positive has definitely been a good thing for me.

Keep your fingers crossed.
BP

 

Are we really this stupid?

I haven’t written much in a while and that is primarily because I haven’t felt like it.  I’ve been dealing with a few issues, but I think I might have most of them worked out.  That is of course if I’m able to modify some of my current habits. 

I should be back tomorrow in order to commemorate my 16th year in a wheelchair.  I usually like to write an entry on April 5, so I’ll be back.

Check out this article.  You will find it hard to believe that we really have so many stupid people in this country, but then again if you have ever watched Jay Leno’s when he is asking people very simple questions you might not be too surprised.

The name of the article should entice you: “How Dumb Are We?”

To put it in a nutshell, we are pretty damn stupid.

 

I guess I’m a little snippy

I have to tell you I am really feeling old today. I’m trying to figure out how to customize my blog and I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t want to spend the time to make it look right. Hell, I can’t even get the motivation to write about the issues I would really like to talk about.

I guess I’ve just been in a pissy mood and of course my bladder issues are a lot of the problem right now. It’s difficult for me to be in a good mood when it feels like someone’s burning a hole in your bladder. I have an appointment in about 10 days and hopefully they will see if they can figure something out. I’m really getting a little peeved that this is continuing to be a problem off and on.

I thought about writing about what happened today when I looked in the mirror. My gosh was it a shock. I have a larger wattle than I thought I did. It’s absolutely horrific. When the hell did this happen? If that’s not bad enough, I was trying to look at the new magnet I had attached to my head rest so that I am able to use my Bluetooth once again. It is unbelievably unsightly. I really don’t know what my technician was thinking. I guess I’ll have my brother take it off tonight and worry about it later. The technicians did, however, add a new profile to my wheelchair so that I am able to use the device on my hat with a little more ease. I’m wearing a hat today because the Bluetooth I normally wear with the computer chip on it fell off yesterday and left me sitting in the middle of my house unable to do anything other than call for help. Thankfully I have a neighbor who is able to come by and put the Bluetooth back on my ear. I think my hair is too long and that’s probably why it slipped off. This is the first time this has happened.

Maybe in the next few days I’ll feel like writing about things I want to rant about. Maybe not though.

I am still hanging in there though.
Have a wonderful weekend,
BP
PS I forgot to mention that my environmental control unit [ECU] (the thing I use to operate all of the appliances/door openers in my house) went on the fritz last night. The microphone I usually use on my PC fell off the back of the chair and was dragging on the ground. Well, it didn’t damage the microphone transmitter, but it did cause a slight short in the wiring which controls my ECU and I wasn’t able to use it while I was in the chair last night. I was able to get it functioning once again this morning, but now I’m using my backup microphone. Strangely enough it’s working much better than my normal microphone. You now, if I could move my arms I would throw them up in exasperation right about now.

 

Hard

It’s getting harder and harder for me to get the enthusiasm to write much of anything lately.  Sure, there’s things going on, but I don’t think there worthy of talking about too much.  From what I can tell I’m not the only one who isn’t blogging nearly as much.  Every since I have moved over to WordPress I have been less and less enthusiastic about even checking on what everyone is doing.

I don’t like my site.  I don’t particular care for WordPress.  Maybe I’ll change my mind in a few days.  Right now, however, I am in a perpetual state of torpor (listlessness, inertia) when it comes to blogging.

 

What is this guy thinking about?

I think this is one of the most annoying commercials I have seen in a long time, but I was laughing my ass off when I saw the boyfriend’s reaction at the end of the commercial.

If you don’t feel like watching the whole thing, just let it load up and run and then watched the last 45 or 50 seconds.

Here is the question I have: “I can understand the guy being happy because his girlfriend got one vibrator, but three vibrators.  What the hell is she going to do with three vibrators?”

Perhaps he thinks he might be able to get a used one of them. 

What bothers me is they showed this particular commercial while The Daily Show and the Cobert Report is being shown in its first timeslot.  I record these and watch them later.  My poor niece and nephew are really uncomfortable if they happen to be in the room when this commercial comes on.  How the hell do they allow this commercial, but continued to deny access to Zestra, a female sex product?

 

I’m Just Tired of Waiting

Well you all, I’m just tired of waiting for the Frau to come back over. It’s going on two years, so I am putting an ad on craigslist to see if I can entice some nice woman to go to the movies and possibly out to dinner. I’m not really looking for anything else right now, but some female companionship would be great.

Here is the ad I posted.
“I am a 46-year-old single white male looking to go out with a nice woman of a comparable age. The one thing you will see in my picture is that I am a quadriplegic, but please know that my disability doesn’t hold me down at all. I enjoy going to movies, out to dinner and yes I even enjoy shopping. I am financially secure and not in need of caregivers. I’m looking for some female companionship. I’m educated and can carry on a conversation. Some might even consider me a captive listener. So, why not contact me and then we can go out to movie and dinner? Look a the bright side you don’t have to worry about me getting all handsy.”

Let me know if you think. Is there any way to make it a little more humorous and yet enticing?
I went a head and attached a photo so I wouldn’t scare off too many people .
Back in the day I used to be able to get dates, then I decided to put all my eggs in one basket. I guess I never learned from my mother.

 

Just Returned

Well, I managed to get through procedure which I absolutely dread — colonoscopy. For able-bodied individuals it’s a literal pain in the butt, but when it comes to quadriplegics the prep for this routine test is horrific to say the least. The actual colonoscopy was tentatively scheduled for 8 AM this morning (Monday), but I had to go to a clear liquid diet on Thursday. Then I was admitted to the hospital on Friday, only drink a gallon bottle of the Golightly (the same thing able bodied people use) on Saturday. This is usually enough to clear everyone else, but us quads are so full of crap that we are required to do a second gallon on Sunday. In case you don’t know what Golightly is, it will literally put you on the toilet for the whole evening. Sunday night they began doing enemas and follow-up early on Monday morning doing more of them.

Thankfully I was given a clean bill of health and now I won’t have to do another colonoscopy for five years. I really wish I could get away with 20 years, but at least now no one can say I’m full of shit for a least a couple of more days.

Sorry for the TMI, but I call it like I see it.

 

Back soon

I’ll be off the web for a little longer. Health is good, just a little indisposed.

 

Reading and More Reading

I wrote an entire entry on Saturday, but when I looked at it today it appeared to be more of a diatribe than I initially believed. I knew I was letting off a little steam, but I think I probably went a little overboard.

I’m doing well physically. I’m a little bummed out that my voice software accuracy seems to be waning. At first I thought it might be my microphones, then I thought maybe it was the way I was pronouncing things, but now I’m starting to think this program (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) just isn’t working as well as it once did. Maybe I need to enunciate a little better, but I would think it would be learning as I am correcting. That’s the way it used to work. Maybe I’m changing my speech patterns. Or it could be that the microphone is broadcasting too loudly.

Anyway, I’ll try to get their one site tomorrow. I hope everyone had a fantastic Super Bowl weekend. Mine was pretty uneventful.

Normally I have gone over my review of the top 10 commercials from the Super Bowl, but I think I will just let her one of my favorite.

I thoroughly enjoyed the Chrysler commercial which is receiving a lot of attention today. Now that was my idea of a good commercial.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that I have been really reading lately.  I finished Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer.  I found it entertaining, but it definitely was a little too da Vinci Code-ish in my humble opinion.  It was, nonetheless, an entertaining ride for those who just want to be entertained.

In between novels I am continuing to plug along on a historical book.  After I finished the Michael Becschloss book The Conquerors I think I’m going to read All the Devils Are Here in between my novels.  I guess I’m going to take a little bit of a timeout on reading all of my political news on the Internet.  I guess I’ll have to be satisfied with watching news programs.
Take care,

 

I have always wondered

I was married for almost 10 years and my wife was real comfortable with me because she was not afraid to pass gas in front of me, but she didn’t do it on a regular basis.  So, I always thought women were definitely more proper about things like farting than men.  Then about eight years ago I saw this commercial on a television program.

I was laughing my ass off and I thought to myself, “self… there’s no way women do this.”  Well, I’m here to tell you they do.

The first time I experienced a woman lifting her butt cheek in order to pass gas I was taking a test in a class and the woman, who I will not name, simply leaned over toward me and I thought she had something to tell me.  No, I was sadly mistaken.  She not only passed gas, but her fart was heard around the classroom because she was sitting in one of those plastic chairs t curved to fit your derrière.  Of course everyone turned around and thought it was me.  Yeah!  That Quad can’t control his bowels.  There she sat with that face.  You know the one I mean?  The one where they always blame it on the dog.

At first I thought this was just an aberration, but I later learned this particular “woman” does this often.  I just hadn’t noticed.  Now I’m sitting here wondering how many women actually do lean over, lift their butt cheeks lightly and let out farts when no one is around.  Any women want to tell me?

While I was searching for the above video, I came across this old Graham Norton show.  I’ll ready felt pretty giddy after having watched one of my favorite romantic comedies, The American President, but this really took the soberness out of today.

The two women participating in the hijinks with Graham Norton are Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless of Cagney and Lacey fame.