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My first impression, LOVE IT!!!

I have been waiting for this day for years, since the first time I have ever gotten an X-Ray I have had a desire to get myself a lead apron. You are probably looking at me in the picture above asking, why, why a lead apron. Well whenever I have gotten X-Ray’s I have always noticed an odd phenomenon, my breathing would get slower, my heartbeat would get slow, and I would become very relaxed, especially with PVC lead aprons. Until a few years ago I did not realize that this was due to my autistic sensory integration disorder. In the last month I visited with Rocky who told me to get in contact with PNWX (Pacific Northwest X-Ray) I thought back to all of the times I have had X-Rays at the hospital and the manufacturer Techno-Aide popped into my head. I spoke with Dawn Winker there and she immediately understood why I was inquiring about a lead apron, in fact they have had clients before get them for the deep pressure and warmth, I was quite glad about this but the order I was about to make would be very unique.

I ordered myself not a lead apron, but a lead body wrap, according to some dreams I had. it is 55 inches long and I am 64 inches long, with the thyroid collar it is about 58 or so, at that point my mouth is buried in the warm nylon of the thyroid collar. It weighs 28 pounds.

Last night was my first night with it and I slept beautifully, I fell asleep around 10:00-10:30 PM and I woke up today around 9:00 AM. I absolutely have fallen in love with how heavy and warm it is and how smooth the material feels, this morning I had a hard time taking it off cause all I wanted to do was keep rubbing my head in the warm smooth PVC and smelling it.

Talk about heavenly! hehe.

I give many special thanks to Dawn Winker at PNWX (Pacific Northwest X-Ray) and Techno-Aide for their extremely generous donation to make me more comfortable in life.  May this blog post stand forever as a symbol of their generosity and power to make dreams come true.

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from http://swedishcampground.com/safari-4-hidden-preferences

DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop

This moves the tab bar back where you expect it to be:

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4TabBarIsOnTop -bool NO

DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign and DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle

When both set to NO it restores the blue loading bar behind the URL. Also puts a page loading spinner in the tab itself, which looks odd with the new tabs.

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
$ defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO

Flickr logo

You may have noticed that all of the photos are missing from my flickr account, that is because I pulled them down because there is still some more work I want to do to make them optimal for flickr consumption. I am optimizing it so that it will synchronize from my iPhoto library properly from now on. I WAS going to go through and tag all of them but I decided forget it, I will do that for all photos from this day forward. But backward’s tagging probably won’t happen. If it does it will be a low priority task. The reason for this is my older pictures the titles kind of act like tags.

Safari 4.0 good, but not great

 Alright, so I decided to go and grab the Safari 4 beta, which JUST came out today. I was quite excited and went over to Apple and downloaded it. I was greeted with quite a cool animation from it and then it immediately showed my “Top Pages” which I reset due to inaccuracy. Then I came across two huge pitfalls in the new browser. The only problem I have is more of an annoyance, the tab bar is up in the “title bar” area is difficult to get used to when your an autistic who hates change. The top pages view is definitely cool, the browser now features “Full text search” of your bookmarks, which means if you don’t remember a fragment of the address but remember what the name of the bookmark is you can type the name and boom there it is. It lacks 1Password support by default but that can be fixed over at http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/24/want-to-enable-1password-in-the-safari-4-beta-heres-how/

ENJOY SAFARI V4.0 EVERYONE

Flickr logo

I might be outsourcing my photo gallery to Flickr.com. The reason for this is the fact that my  hosting company is complaining that I’m using too much resources on the Web server, such as the processor and RAM. to avoid risking the loss of my main hosting account, I am going to transition my photos off to Flickr.com if there is an unfavorable response from Siteground technical support. So far no response has been posted. However as a pre-emptive task I am beginning to upload my photos there. If we do decide to a final switchover, I will alert everyone. And the website’s photos link will be updated. Unfortunately, if you have hot links to photos on my server, they will no longer work, when I delete the gallery system.

BOTTOM LINE. DON’T DO ANYTHING YET, NOTHING HAS CHANGED YET, THIS IS JUST A NOTICE THAT IT MAY HAPPEN!

Bang BlackBerry Here Pad

I am hopefully going to get into the store tomorrow to exchange my BlackBerry, cause it is official. My BlackBerry is FUBAR.

Bang BlackBerry Here Pad

Shown above, is something I would probably do with my Blackberry at this point. However, I am not going to do it, at least not yet. I am on my third security wipe this time a total wipe out. Including third-party applications. Today this Blackberry has been a real pain in the butt. I got the missing sync for Blackberry updated today, and that’s what FUBAR’d it. Apparently, I am required to have the “tasks” application installed, which I had dumped the first day I got the Blackberry. So now, I have to take the next few hours, to configure my phone, like a just got it from the damn store, Not a good memory people, not a good memory! Setting up a phone for the first time, it’s kind of something you only want to do once. Maybe twice or three times in the phone’s lifetime. But three times in the same day, is definitely nerve-racking.

New G-Tube inserted

 Me and mom changed my G-Tube tonight all on our own! It was quite easy albeit a little bit sore afterwards but the process its self was quite easy. How we did it is.

1. I deflated my old tube. and slathered lube on the tube.

2. Mom prepped the new tube

3. I pulled out my old tube.

4. mom inserted the new tube.

5. I billed Aetna the insurance company $10,000.

Ok fine, step 5 was a joke.

Jumbo Jet Taking off, possibly

The trip to England is likely to get pushed back to July / August 2009 timeframe IF it happens. We are going to do some major revamping of it. And possibly buy out two seats for me, one behind me so I can do a full recline. We also might be doing some medical accommodations like strong sedation to knock me out during the flight. More info will follow as available.