Psychotomy

So, I dropped Star Wars Clone Wars Lightsaber Duels (jesus that’s a long title) in the mail Saturday morning after Gymboree with DK.

Got the e-mail saying they received it and they’re shipping out my next game … I don’t know if they actually received it or if this is the fast-scan thing. It was only going to Pittsburgh, so it could easily have reached by now.

We’ll see how the complete turnaround is. 2 days to receive, so we’ll see when the new one comes up.

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So, DK generally gets to watch 4 shows at home.

• PBS Kids Word World
• PBS Kids Super Why!
• Disney My Friends Tigger & Pooh
• Disney Handy Manny

Tigger & Pooh we found one (maybe two?) disc last year. Then we found them on iTunes so we just bought the rest of the eps there. We haven’t quite decided what to do about the few we have on DVD. We haven’t bought them on iTunes yet, but I’m tempted to just so they’re all in the same format :o

At Thanksgiving he decided he liked Handy Manny, so when we got home we picked that up for him too. Because a little bi of variety is nice.

Word World we’d found earlier and have 4 discs of shows. Maybe about half hte first season at this point I think. They put out a disc every 3-6 months with three more eps on it. Slow. And a little behind the show :/

Super Why! They had on iTunes when Kiir was looking around and she thought it looked good for him. He enjoys it, dances and interacts, yeah. Ten eps at the time. They haven’t put any more eps in since then. It’s been over a year :/ They seem to have put out one disc last year. So there are now 2 eps on disc.

I’m thinking about checking that huge antenna that’s been in our attic since we moved in, see if it does anything. If I can pick up PBSKids I may start recording off the air. But I adamantly REFUSE to pay for cable so I can record PBS shows!!!

(I did send an email on the contact form for SW! asking about the iTunes content … I may put one in for WW too ; since we got the appleTV it’s just so much easier to have things in iTunes instead of always changing discs)

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So, I decided to go ahead and sign up for Gamefly recently. 20$/mo, two games at a time. Even if I play only one game at a time, that’s 3 months I have to beat the game before it would have been cheaper to buy it.

And with two games at a time, I can switch back and forth or something. Or pick up smoething for DK. Like this first round I picked up the WALL*E game for Xbox, since he enjoys swiping my controller so much.

Signed up for a 30-day trial on Monday evening (holidays, weekends, etc, didn’t want to waste a day of free!), they shipped the top two on the list Tuesday morning. They arrived today. In comparison, Netflix is 99% next day (Tuesday would arrive Wednesday), most shipping from the East Coast gets here 1-2 days.

The return envelope has the PA sticker on it, but I don’t know if that’s where it shipped from or if that’s just the nearest return. But since both shipped same day and arrived together, they probably shipped together.

3 days is better than the 7-10 days that I’d seen online for some folks mid-west when there was a single distribution in CA, and if turnaround is decent (not sure what I mean by that) it should be OK. With the two games I can return one and finish the other while I wait or something.

The second game this time was the Star Wars Lightsaber Duels game for Wii. And it sucks. So I’m gonna toss it right back in the bin tomorrow, so we’ll see how that turnaround is in pt 2! :)

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So, since we got the amber necklaces back … 5? 6? months ago, my headaches receded from daily to just a few times a month. Unfortunately, those few times are the heavy duty ones that I can’t really do anything about.

For instance, I’ve had this headache for … 48 hours by now, a little more. Last night at one point it shifted and my left eye was throbbing and pulsing with the ehadache centralized right behind it rather than crushing my whole skull … and my comment was “well, thats better!”

We’re fairly sure it’s a pressure system moving in or through or whatever. Because it went from teens and twenties this week to 50 today. So I’m thinking there’s some collosal front moving in or something. I heard something about snow Monday, so maybe there’s more than one front.

But the pressure headaches … I can’t do jack about them. The month before the amber I was popping six to eight extra strength excedrin dairly to deal with my headaches. Now it does nothing. Tylenol, nothing. Advil. Aleve. Tylenol Sinus Pressure seems to help the tiniest smidge so I’m using up our small stack of that right now. I’m wondering if real aspirin would help, with the whole blood thinning thing. But we don’t have any because the Acetemenophin and Ibuprofen do the trick for everything and she can’t take aspirin pregnant, so we’ve simply not bothered to restock any of that since it ran out whenever.

I call them migraines, but I’m not 100% sure that they always are. I don’t have the “curl up in a ball” or “put a cold compress over your eyes and hide in a dark room” reflexes, generally. I mean, I’ve had them before, at times. I think the amber helped pare those back some too. But the pressure headaches just make me feel most of the way there without getting all the way there. Which is just as well, since I can’t do anything about it :/

alt.my.head.hurts … throwback gag :o

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So, I have some kind of rash exczema thing (excema? exzema? whatever) on my legs.

Started off as my legs itched, but they do that in winter with the dry skin and the heat drying out the house and the freezing cold outside.

Then we started going to the pool. And they started itching more. So I started putting lotion on, and they burn when I do. And now they burn when I get in the pool, and there’re red splotchy dry areas on my legs …

I called a dermatologist last week for an appointment. The first one wanted to give me March, around when baby girl is due. I said I’d call them back if I couldn’t find anything better. Second one gave me an appointment for next week when I had to stay home for Kiir’s dr’s appt anyway. Yay!

Hopefully she’ll give me some kind of nifty creme to put on my legs and make it go away. Hopefully it’s just some rash that went terribly bad because of conditions and it’s easy to clear an avoid. Because what I really need is more random damned restrictions!

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So, the review team came to let me know that thye’d be done reviewing some material of mine by tomorrow …

Then the guy tells me that if there’s no errors it can publish, but if there are errors I’ll have to look them up in their error reporting system.

THEN he goes on to say “I mean, he HAS to find something wrong” …

Thanks for the vote of confidence, man!

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So, on the train this evening …

I generally sit in the “quiet car”, no talking no calls etc. And at the front of the car this evening, a group of 3 or 4 folks sat down signing. Now, I’m thinking “well, they won’t have a problem in the silent car. They can keep on talking with no problem!”

A few minutes later one of the regulars got up and went over and signed at them for a while. She was telling them that they were in the quiet car and needed to quiet down. Apparently they were laughing. Out loud. And I guess, like many deaf folks I’ve met, they weren’t aware of how loud they were laughing.

It’s just amusing that she had to ask the deaf people who were signing to quiet down :o

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So, Tiffany at Electric Boogaloo has made a couple posts recently about the CPSIA as she reads up on it for her own shop …

Today, she laments the fact that apparently something went terribly wrong with this legislative idea. ..

CPSIA bad. Poisoned kids, bad. Worse, even. But how many kids get lead poisoning from the hand-carved toys made by a woodcutter in Maine as opposed to those that get a big package of GHP-dots from china multinationals? Now, seriously, which of these two companies is this legislation going to cost anything to?

I’ll give you a hint — it’s not the one that can add a dollar to each item and reap a profit from the “enhanced protections” …

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So I was looking up some friends from college and decided to take the plunge and signed up on linkedin.com … then I noticed that some of them were on facebook instead, so i signed up there too

i might be a little late to the party :o

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So, here’s a breakdown from Happy Panda who actually makes clothing and thus needs this research (whereas we’ve never made it reasonably past theoretical yet)

CPSIA Testing Research & Price Breakdown

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