2ndchance

Public Service Announcements

Several friends and I have been recording and producing some PSA's for a local radio station.  We are hoping these Mental Health Awareness PSA's get picked up by other stations.  I had the privilege of recording the first ones (below).  Now I think we have about 27 different stories and readers.  Let me know what you think!

 

Download Tennessee Williams
Download Peter Green

Let's talk about the weather

Looks like all the really bad heat is behind us.  And this has been a hot summer. . .triple digits for weeks around here.  I realize that is the norm for some of my friends who live in places like. . .I don't know. . .Reno, Nevada?  Or someplace in Cambodia?  :)  But for us, with all the humidity, it is more than enough; and fall will be a welcome change.

Clicking on the Weather Channel link to the right of this, I saw where it should be in the upper 70's by next weekend.  Yay!  We can actually have cook-outs again on the back patio, and I can sit out front and talk to all my neighbors like I enjoy doing.

Before I know it, there will be snow.  I can dream, right?

I graduated

Today was graduation for the training program I've been in for. . .can it be a year?  We did the whole cap and gown thing with diplomas and speeches.  My DRS counselor came, along with my supervisor and my mother.  We had a buffet lunch following the ceremony.

And damn it!  I forgot my camera.  I was hoping to post some pics here but I might have to see if my classmates can send me some of their pics.  It was good to see everyone, after all the summer months of internships.  There were some familiar faces missing, however.  Several students were unable to finish their internship.

It felt good to cross the stage, receive my diploma, and have one of my professors place a stole around my neck.  In the commons area, during lunch, a PVCC student came up to me and asked what was going on.  He thought I looked like a Methodist minister with my robe and purple stole.  Heh.

Raccoon

Tomorrow's the day that I get my eyelids fixed.  The recovery period is supposed to last for two weeks.  My internship has been put off another week to allow for healing.

All stocked up on frozen peas.  They are for the cold compresses I have to hold on my eyes for 30 minutes out of each hour for two days.  Ugg.  I won't be able to look at a pea for months.

Following the initial two days, I have to use warm compresses.  I'm supposed to put rice in a sock and microwave it.  Who would'a thunk?

It will all be worth it in the end.  Hopefully no more discomfort and icky discharge all day long.  I'll just look like a raccoon for a month.

a Brief Word from your sponsor

In the 'comments section' at the end of these blog posts you will see information concerning 'typepad' and 'typekey' accounts; and the option to sign into your account if you have one.

The key word here is 'option'.  You do not have to have one of these accounts to leave a comment.  If this site ever picks up enough spam, I might have to require the use of the free 'typekey' accounts, so I wanted to activate this feature.  For now, and hopefully forever, you are free to comment without using that extra level of sign-in security.

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Oh My

Back at the ranch here finally.  Spent 25 days in the hospital and another 4 days at my mother's house.  Still experiencing some side effects from the ECT treatments directly on my brain and body and indirectly in my life.  My language skills are all scrambled so this will probably be a brief entry.

Conversations

Talked with the market manager today about my exessive absences.  He now knows the whole story, but it doesn't take away the fact that he needs to run a business.  We discussed possibly re-assigning me to a different part of the market or even a different part of the company.  I meet with the shrink tomorrow and do I ever have a full agenda.

Fall Down 2 and Flu too

The guy who had the seizure is doing fine.  He didn't lose his job (yet), as his doctor wrote a release.  He told me that the last thing he remembered was turning to me to ask for help in getting to the break room.

Cool

I discovered that someone is translating this blog and reading it in their native language.  Here is a screen cap:

Download translation.mht

If you click through several of the links, you may find your name and comments translated.

Special prize for the first person to figure out which language it is.

Very cool.

Important Updates. . .

. . .for the 'Watch One Life 8" final segment of the story.  There may be yet another addition in the near future.  Dial-up. . .beware. . .picture heavy, but worth it.