matrushkaka speaks very well, but every once in a while she comes across a word that she's only read and isn't sure how to say. This also happens to hearing people - I had a friend who called Yosemite park "Yaw-see-maw-tee" and called pedestrian crossings "Ped Zings" - but it happens more with matrushkaka because even when someone speaks she just sees the lip movemment ( Read more... )

The midget sent me a request this morning:

I need a large mug for drinking tea in for my office. I like big giant mugs and the one I use at home is the yellow one that says "California" on it. I drink a lot of hot tea ( Read more... )

The midget containment field remains intact. I was up in SF all weekend and nobody so much as dropped a hint to matrushkaka about my new Prius. We also didn't say anything on the way back, and she didn't notice anything suspicious about the new car parked two houses down. Not that she should - there are a few new cars in our neighborhood ( Read more... )

matrushkaka is going to start selling her photos online. She's found an excellent print bureau that scannerman has given his stamp of approval as "the higest quality you can get, anywhere, at any price". The sample prints are flawless and beautiful. She's been sorting and indexing her prints, building a following of fans on her photo journal, and scanning her older ( Read more... )

At the end of last night's debate, Bush stopped to say something to Kerry. None of my friends knew what was said, but I offered to show the QuickTime video to matrushkaka to see if she could read what he said. Another deaf lipreader already beat her to it, though:

"anyway, I am new tonight... as you may not have seen me before in here.. just a FYI that I ( Read more... )

matrushkaka and I have been dating since mid-February. Tonight she's going to meet my parents. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. She left San Francisco this morning to ride back to Los Angeles where she "lives" (though she hasn't been there for the better part of a month). Echoing the problems we had on one or two of the days of our road trip to ( Read more... )

matrushkaka hit and killed a large deer in Mount Ranier National Park while riding her FZR600. She is remarkably untouched, sustaining only a small bruise on her pinky finger. (Most of the time, collisions involving deer, people and motorcycles are fatal to at least two of the three involved parties ( Read more... )