An eventful week...I finished my Bioness evaluation successfully and have an application for a personal unit ready to get to my doctor. I started an application to volunteer at Virginia Hospital Center. And I spent some time walking at Lake Accotink this afternoon. Once again, I got farther on…
Passed a pleasant afternoon at the Hazy Center with my wife, her cousin, and one of his friends. This place holds planes from the beginning of flight to space flight. It would be remarkable just for the size it has to be to house its collections, and the significance of…
Threw my hat into the ring at my Toastmaster club's spring contest this morning and came away a winner in both Evaluation and International Speech. I feel pretty secure in evaluation, but know my speech needs a lot of work before I go to the area contest at…
Last weekend brought about six inches of snow to our part of the east coast, but spring returned this weekend with temperatures in the seventies. We went to Fort Hunt yesterday and I walked farther towards the historic structures than I have been before. Today we had time to go…
I just finished another physical therapy evaluation, this time to see if I was a candidate for using Bioness instead of an AFO to assist my walking. An AFO is a brace; Bioness is an electronic marvel. The therapists fitted electrodes over two nerves at my knee and in my…
I should have been all over Wordpress yesterday. I have just arranged to receive a largish reimbursement for a newsletter I put together for Toastmasters, and I was pretty much settled on using part of the money to buy a Kindle. But when I was reading the morning newsfeeds, I…
It got into the fifties here in Washington today and the sun has finally broken through the clouds. We're looking for temperatures in the sixties tomorrow. We celebrated by taking the first of many trips, I hope, to Lake Accotink. It was strange being there when so few…
Just finished Angler and remain shocked at the portraits I've read of Bush and his administration. Now I've got to deal with our financial crisis in my own way. I'm moving on to The Defining Moment to get more of an idea of how…