I can haz Deviated Septum?

I went to an ENT (Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor) today. (I clear my throat a lot and was gently advised by my boss to have it seen about.) After waiting forever, he said that I have a deviated septum and that my ears are inflamed inside my head and pushing into the sinus cavity. This is causing post nasal drip. He gave me a prescription.

Also he wants me to have a sleep test as he is afraid that I have Sleep Apnea. Yay me.

Product Review: MEElectronic's MiniMEE: Addendum

Well, I have something to add. After further usage of the MiniMEE, it really only seems to lose track of where the last play was when the file is really big, or the length really long. I have been listening to an audio book that has lots of short (45 minute) chapters. The MP3 player did not lose place one time. I will experiment further, and have software that can split MP3's into smaller pieces, but for the regular user this might be a bit much.

The other thing I have noticed is that the battery stays at full a long time, but when it starts to go down, it goes pretty fast.

All in all, for the moment,,, I am more pleased with it than I was....

Product Review: MEElectronic's MiniMEE

I decided to do a product review. Today I will be reviewing the MEElectronic's MiniMEE MP3 player.

I will start by saying a bit about my old MP3 player. I had (and still have actually) a Craig 256mb MP3 player. It's ok, has a expansion slot for an sd card (which I never got around to getting) also able to record (a feature I never used). The problem with my old MP3 player is that when I would turn it off, it went back to the beginning of the very first file. This might be ok, if I listened to music on my player, but I don't. For some reason I find that irritating. I listen to audio books and podcasts. Well, I only paid $10.00 for it, so it was all right,I could only use it though when I had a lot of time to listen.

I decided that I wanted a new MP3 player. One with a bookmarking system, or at least one where I could pick up where I left off in the file. I did some research and comparisons and found the one I wanted. A thing of beauty it is. Plays video (not that I actually care about that), full touch screen. Of course it was (and is) out of stock. So, I dug a little further and found a (slightly) cheaper one. This one had mixed reviews (so did the one I wanted) but was made by the same company and seemed like it should work for my purposes. It didn't have a bookmarking system, but you could get it (so the reviews said) to keep it's place by pausing and then turning it off.

Well, I won't describe the long wait I had for it, since they sent it via U.S.P.S. (that is a rant for another day), but I finally got it. First of all, to describe it. In a word, small. When I read all the descriptions everyone commented on the size, I believe terms like tiny and minuscule were thrown about. When I read the dimensions, I thought, “Huh, seems to be a bit smaller than mine.”. I didn't pull out a ruler to do comparisons. Well, I got it and found that I was wrong. This MP3 player is not a lot bigger than a postage stamp. You get used to the size though, I now forget that it is really small until I show it to people and they react to it's size.

Well, enough about that, it's not the size of the boat, it's...well, you know. It has an on/off button and you can use the play button as an on/off button if the real on/off button is set for on. If you are like me and only use the player to play audio books, you might do well to use the play button as the on/off button. I say this because, if you use the real on/off button, it comes up in a selection mode where you have to pick which mode to go into. You use the ff/rw buttons to move around, then the M enter the mode you want. However, most of the time when I press the M button it thinks I have pressed either the ff or rw button and moves to the left or the right. It sometimes takes me 5 minutes to get my MP3 player to a usable state.

That would be bad enough, but no, it gets worse. While it remembers the position that it last left, all the time, about half of the time (maybe a little less) right after it starts, it will go back to zero. If I have remembered and looked quickly, I can see where I stopped. Not bad if you have nice short files, but the last time I had to fast Forward it 6.5 hours. Must have taken me 20 minutes.

So on a rating system with 5 stars, I would probably give this 2. I wouldn't buy it again.

FusionFall

So I started playing FusionFall Beta (Cartoon Network's new game) and I love it. I know it's supposed to be for kids, or whatever, but trust me when I say, I am not the only adult who plays it (not that I really care anyway, but still) I checked the AdultSwim boards, and there are players there.

Any of you who know me, know that I am no fan of MMO's. The thing I like about FusionFall is that while technically it is an MMO, it plays like a real game, you really don't have to interact with any live players, just the Computer ones, and since I am a huge fan of many of the CN shows (though mosttttly the older ones) It's so cool to talk to Dexter, Mandark, Numbuh 5, The Ed Boys...man I love this game... ;)

Court Day, Part 2.

Well, the day has come and gone. I won't bore you with all the details (they were pretty Dull details), but I went back to the courthouse at the appointed hour (actually about a half an hour before hand) and waited. People started streaming out of the court room, the trial was over. The defense won so he had to pay $100.00, and that is all. I got $12.00 for my trouble. I knew juror's got paid, I didn't realize that witnesses got paid.

Court Day, Part 1.

I got up at some unholy hour (for a day off) to go to court. The subpoena said I should be there at 8:45. When I had spoken to the lawyer he told me he thought it would be about 1:00p before he would need me, but since the subpoena said 8:45, I figured that was when I had better be there. I got there at 8:30. I checked in and was told that I should go sit in the courtroom. I think they may have thought I was a juror. I sat in the court room for a while and then the lawyer for the defense pulled me out. He had me sit in the hallway.

A few hours went by and he came out and told me I should go to lunch because it would be at least an hour before I was needed. I went to Church's fried Chicken (it was close and cheap(ish)). I may remark more on this later. After eating I headed back to the courthouse and everyone seemed to be coming out. The lawyer said to come back about 2:30.

I came home and puttered about, and now am about to head back off to court. Hopefully they will get me in there and let me say my bit and then let me go. This is already taking all day....

Interesting Goings on 2, or, oh, yay, I'm involved.

A while back something of interest happend outside my window. I didn't put anything here about it, because I was having trouble getting into this blog (I eventually found that it was a cookie issue.) Well, now tht I am back, I will wnter the first entry, then the second.

Saturday, April 28, 2007


Intersting Goings On
Category: Life

So, I was in the downstairs bathroom and came out and noticesd all this flashing of red and blue out front. I took a look and there was a cop that apparently had a white truck pulled over.

I came upstairs and turned off my light ( ;) ) and sat in to watch fully expecting a ticket to change hands and then this brief drama to end. suddenly to my surprise the guy in the truck yells "I'm going!" (This yelled loud enough for me to hear through my closed window). Apparently the cop took umbridge at this and kicked (don't ask me how he did this, even though I watched it I can't tell you) the truck door opened and roused the guy out. He had the guy facing his own truck. Apparently words were exchanged bcause the cop discharged his weapon into the guy. Now remember the guy is still facing his truck, away from the cop.

There was a loud POP and I thought "Holy shit he shot him!" There was a pause, (long enough for me to think the above) then the guy fell down and I noticed the wires that were leading from the weapon to the guy. I suddenly realized that the guy had been tazed. The guy yelled (but not nearly as loud as before) "What did you do that for?" Apparently the cop answered (though this is only a guess on my part) and the guy laid there for a few moments until another cruiser pulled up. He was cuffed, an ambulance pulled up and the emt looked him over, they took him to one of the cars (where presumably he still is, they are still out there as I write this). I'll write more if anything else interesting develops, but I think that this little story has unfolded as far (for me any way) as it is going to.

Now the rest:

Well as you know from a previous blog, I saw an altercation between the police and a civilian outside my window. Well, somehow I seem to have gotten swept up in this little drama, they (the party of the civilian (who happens to live across the street from me)) wants me as a witness. I would probably make a completely useless witness had I not blogged about this the moment after it was done.

So today I get to troop down to downtown (and you know how much I love downtown) to do an interview with a lawyer. Yay.

Tarot

You are the Hanged Man

Self-sacrifice, Sacrifice, Devotion, Bound.

With the Hanged man there is often a sense of fatalism, waiting for something to happen. Or a fear of
loss from a situation, rather than gain.

The Hanged Man is perhaps the most fascinating card in the deck. It reflects the story of Odin who offered himself as a sacrifice in order to gain knowledge. Hanging from the world tree, wounded by a spear, given no bread or mead, he hung for nine days. On the last day, he saw on the ground runes that had fallen from the tree, understood their meaning, and, coming down, scooped them up for his own. All knowledge is to be found in these runes.

The Hanged Man, in similar fashion, is a card about suspension, not life or death. It signifies selflessness, sacrifice and prophecy. You make yourself vulnerable and in doing so, gain illumination. You see the world differently, with almost mystical insights.

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