Using the new keyboard
Happy, Happy! While Ron and I were shopping in Micro Center on Sunday, I found myself asking to go look at the keyboards. Quite on impulse I ended up with my anniversary present, a new gaming-style keyboard. Oh, Geeky Bliss! It is quite fine (red and black with silver trim.) It replaces an old critter that I have had for nearly ten years, whose keys were beginning to fail. It was perfectly adequate for the everyday, but as I have learned, you really do need something responsive for online gameplay.
I'm taking time away from the sweater to update my journal. Our trip to Kansas City was very enjoyable, lunch at BD's Mongolian Barbeque then shopping at our usual haunts; Micro Center, Michael's and Borders. Tonight is the next to the last class at Yarn Barn. I'm not nearly far done on my sweater, but it has been such fun to explore modular knitting that I'm tempted to make another of these cardigans after I get this one completed.
Opinion section --
Now comes to the point in the entry that is not so happy. I know that I should not let lesser beings upset me, but I have about had it with Rush Limbaugh. This national treasure of pompous fat-headedness has done something that most of us were weaned of in childhood; picking on the disabled. Now he has taken his opinions and used them to take on someone that has struggled with Parkinson's Syndrome for years -- many of them in the public eye.
Rush has accused Michael J. Fox of not taking his medication or exaggerating his symptoms. In Parkinson's those symptoms are a lack of control of muscles that control movement. They can range from tremors to spasmodic twitching. As Parkinson's develops, these symptoms get worse.
As a person who has a neuromuscular disorder, this strikes me as the depth of uncouth. It is not unusual to have good and bad days when it comes to the manifestation of symptoms. Medications can help, but have yet to completely ameliorate some of the effects of neuromuscular ailments. Could it be that Rush is just not in favor of stem-cell research? That's likely. I'm not sure that the capacity to cure Mr. Limbaugh's disability lays within the powers of that realm of science. In the search to cure chronic ailments, let the scientists do the reporting....
Okay -- rant over.
Next up -- what am I going to wear to the Halloween party? Suggestions?
I'm taking time away from the sweater to update my journal. Our trip to Kansas City was very enjoyable, lunch at BD's Mongolian Barbeque then shopping at our usual haunts; Micro Center, Michael's and Borders. Tonight is the next to the last class at Yarn Barn. I'm not nearly far done on my sweater, but it has been such fun to explore modular knitting that I'm tempted to make another of these cardigans after I get this one completed.
Opinion section --
Now comes to the point in the entry that is not so happy. I know that I should not let lesser beings upset me, but I have about had it with Rush Limbaugh. This national treasure of pompous fat-headedness has done something that most of us were weaned of in childhood; picking on the disabled. Now he has taken his opinions and used them to take on someone that has struggled with Parkinson's Syndrome for years -- many of them in the public eye.
Rush has accused Michael J. Fox of not taking his medication or exaggerating his symptoms. In Parkinson's those symptoms are a lack of control of muscles that control movement. They can range from tremors to spasmodic twitching. As Parkinson's develops, these symptoms get worse.
As a person who has a neuromuscular disorder, this strikes me as the depth of uncouth. It is not unusual to have good and bad days when it comes to the manifestation of symptoms. Medications can help, but have yet to completely ameliorate some of the effects of neuromuscular ailments. Could it be that Rush is just not in favor of stem-cell research? That's likely. I'm not sure that the capacity to cure Mr. Limbaugh's disability lays within the powers of that realm of science. In the search to cure chronic ailments, let the scientists do the reporting....
Okay -- rant over.
Next up -- what am I going to wear to the Halloween party? Suggestions?