I now have an ELI (a bluetooth dongle for my hearing aid)! it works with my cell phone or with a computer as a headset (speaker and/or microphone). now i can not only look like a schizophrenic and talk to thin air; i can also clandestinely record anything i can hear, as long as my computer is within about 30 feet. scary eh ( Read more... )

I:

• cleaned up my office at work (finally);
  
• got a refund on the boston museum of science tickets to see the body worlds show... we'll just have to find a time to go to boston before it ends in january;
  
• made an appointment with my audiologist to get an audio input cord and try a bluetooth audio input dongle (i'm going to have a dongle on my hearing ( Read more... )

i have a loaner hearing aid while my right-hand one is off at the Starkey factory getting fixed (it prefers to be in two halves these days rather than in one whole piece). oddly, it's a Siemens aid, but Starkey will apparently happily service it, and for a lot less than Siemens, according to the hearing aid specialist here ( Read more... )