Alin's Site

New front page in the kitchen

The website has a new front page photo. The old photo had a misadjusted harness and the lighting was horrible. Tell me what you all think of the new picture!

From 8 PM to 9 PM tonight all the lights in the CDT (Central Daylight TIme) timezone will hopefully go off, To do this in our house we will shut off everything that does not run on a battery, if it runs on a battery we will unplug it from the charger and run it on the battery. google.com has already turned off their lights at 12:01 AM and they will remain off until 11:59 PM tonight. So remember everyone, turn off the lights at 8:00 PM and use a battery!!! And 9 PM to 10 PM is Gizmodo’s Geeky Gadget Power Up Hour, in which they want everyone to plug in every piece of electronic equipment they have and power it up.

View of Mini Ramp Release Pin

This morning we heard the doorbell ring and wondered who it was, to our surprise it was UPS with a large box. We after receiving the box remembered we ordered a mini ramp so I can get into semi-accessible buildings that have a stoop or single step up. We got the ramp from http://www.discountramps.com for a very low price. It is the 4 foot wheelchair ramp, found in the Wheelchair ramp specials area under center folding ramps.

Time for a close up Mr. Brand New EZ-LOCK

Say hello to Mr. Brand new EZ-LOCK. This little baby now allows us to drive safely anywhere in the world in our van and not have to worry about safety in the event of a crash. This will also allow me to ride in the van in a slight tilt for my spinal maintenance program that I have to maintain low to no pain level. There are a good deal of photos of the EZ-LOCK and it’s systems on the gallery, more will be added tomorrow when we go back in the van for a real ride. It is made of thick double hardened steel able to withstand vehicle crashes involving a totaled vehicle. This thing is truly an amazing little box. For some testimonials and crash photos head over to www.ezlock.net

The only thing was I had to be without my powerchair from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM which was practically all day, which resulted in me being totally bedridden for the duration, thank god we took the two plastic urinals with us from the hospital!

Photos are in the gallery, click the image above!

Happy Easter Basket

Happy Easter everyone! We were supposed to go out with our family but decided against it due to the fact that tuesday we are getting the lockdown installed in the van. We are staying home today and having ham and hot fruit salad. Of course I don’t think I will be eating any.

Have a nice easter!

DisabledPlanet domain transfer complete

It is finally complete, after two weeks of waiting for FreeForums sluggish transfer agent to get me the domain transfer transaction ID and authorization code and then waiting for them to hit the final authorization switch after I authorized it on my end, it finally transferred. Now when you type www.disabledplanet.net it will take you directly to the new disabledplanet.net system running on phpBB3. This is the same forum as the one on the Forum link in the menu on the left. If the domain continues to point to a invalid page or the old forum please wait up to 48 hours before trying again, the domain just got set up today and for the changes to reflect in DNS across the world it can take up to 48 hours. Remember that there is always the totally failsafe access URL of http://disabledplanet.iguido.com which is not DNS routed.

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When I went to do my usual maintenance audit on the website and check that everything is working fine I came across some formatting errors specifically within the G-Tube home feeding pictures up post. They are now fixed.

  

Beans & Leaves Full Room View

Sunset clouds through the van window

Yesterday we had a great time, for the first time I went somewhere other than a doctors office and somewhere without using the old manual wheelchair. For now we have a jimmy rig tie down solution that is not safe for occupied transport, so we have to take the time to transfer me in and out of the van’s seat, which is pretty worthless too since I can’t use the van’s seatbelt due to the way it is designed it cuts into my neck and also the lap part falls right into my G-Tube site, lucky for us the windows in the back are deep tinted. Yesterday we went to Beans & Leaves and mom did one of her usual Saturday performances. Dad took a good deal of pictures and when we were in the van I nearly fell on the floor as I took the picture of the cool cloud arrangement out the window due to my poor lateral support and the lack of lateral support in the van.

 

Fresh G-Tube belly surgery

As I had promised to get photos of our home feeding setup, I have got the photos up to their own album in my gallery system, go ahead and click the picture above to see them. Sorry, its only three photos.

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Safari RSS viewer

When I got my feed update e-mail I noticed there was something fishy, none of the entries were showing full data, everything was a summary due to the fact that I accidentally enabled the SummaryBurner in the FeedBurner system. This bug is now fixed and you should be receiving full articles in your emails.