Them's the breaks
May. 29th, 2011 12:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterYesterday I went to see my chiropractor in Carthage Missouri, and tafter that I drove over west to Joplin to take a look at the scene of the devastation caused by the tornado last weekend. I took a lot of photos and a couple of movies, and I was totally stunned at the amount of devastation there was. It was like driving through an alien landscape. You just do not expect to see something like that anywhere near where you live. But I will need to go into more detail about that later, when I am actually able to write more easily.
The reason I am having trouble now is that he most annoying thing happened. Right after I got back from my trip to Joplin, one of the neighbors approached me in obvious pain. He had been hit over the head with a 2 x 4, by somebody he had thought was a friend but happened to be drunk, and needed my help getting back to his house, half a block up the street.
So I gave him a shoulder to lean on, and we staggered up the street together. He gave me his house key, and I went to unlock the door. As I was on my way back to him, my foot slipped on the moisture and grease of the floor of his garage, and down I went. I struck the floor hard with my elbow, and was then in considerable pain.
We must've looked pretty funny to any hypothetical onlooker, as he was on the ground with a bleeding scalp and I was on the ground with a painful elbow. He had not wanted to call an ambulance before then, but when he saw me go down, he came around to the idea right away. A short time later a St. John's ambulance arrived though neither of us wanted to get a ride back to the hospital. I just wanted my arm put in a sling, and he just wanted to press charges against the person who would be him up. He kept saying that over and over that he wanted to press charges, and the paramedics told him he would have to wait for the police to get there.
After that, I staggered back to my apartment and proceeded to unload it as best I could with only one hand. I had some things to do on the computer after that, but an hour or so later I took a couple of Percocet I had left over from my leg injury and drove myself down to the hospital. They were able to see me pretty quickly. I had x-rays taken of my arm, and receive the unpleasant news that I had broken it.
This is really annoying. For one thing, it is going to cause me trouble at work, where a significant portion of my job duties involve typing detailed notes about what problems customers had. It also means that I am going to have a hard time riding for Teleread.org because I only have the one hand. And part of my arrangement with that site is that I have to write a certain number of folks every month. And it almost certainly means that I will have to drop out of the medical study I am participating in which means a significant loss of income.
For my own day today computer use, I am going to need to come up with some workarounds. And this post is testing one of those. This post is being written in Dragon Dictation for my iPad. So far it seems pretty good at recognizing most of the words I use, and it should not be too hard to go back through and revise them to change the ones that it did not recognize. I just have to remember to say my punctuation allowed, which is not always easy.
The reason I am having trouble now is that he most annoying thing happened. Right after I got back from my trip to Joplin, one of the neighbors approached me in obvious pain. He had been hit over the head with a 2 x 4, by somebody he had thought was a friend but happened to be drunk, and needed my help getting back to his house, half a block up the street.
So I gave him a shoulder to lean on, and we staggered up the street together. He gave me his house key, and I went to unlock the door. As I was on my way back to him, my foot slipped on the moisture and grease of the floor of his garage, and down I went. I struck the floor hard with my elbow, and was then in considerable pain.
We must've looked pretty funny to any hypothetical onlooker, as he was on the ground with a bleeding scalp and I was on the ground with a painful elbow. He had not wanted to call an ambulance before then, but when he saw me go down, he came around to the idea right away. A short time later a St. John's ambulance arrived though neither of us wanted to get a ride back to the hospital. I just wanted my arm put in a sling, and he just wanted to press charges against the person who would be him up. He kept saying that over and over that he wanted to press charges, and the paramedics told him he would have to wait for the police to get there.
After that, I staggered back to my apartment and proceeded to unload it as best I could with only one hand. I had some things to do on the computer after that, but an hour or so later I took a couple of Percocet I had left over from my leg injury and drove myself down to the hospital. They were able to see me pretty quickly. I had x-rays taken of my arm, and receive the unpleasant news that I had broken it.
This is really annoying. For one thing, it is going to cause me trouble at work, where a significant portion of my job duties involve typing detailed notes about what problems customers had. It also means that I am going to have a hard time riding for Teleread.org because I only have the one hand. And part of my arrangement with that site is that I have to write a certain number of folks every month. And it almost certainly means that I will have to drop out of the medical study I am participating in which means a significant loss of income.
For my own day today computer use, I am going to need to come up with some workarounds. And this post is testing one of those. This post is being written in Dragon Dictation for my iPad. So far it seems pretty good at recognizing most of the words I use, and it should not be too hard to go back through and revise them to change the ones that it did not recognize. I just have to remember to say my punctuation allowed, which is not always easy.
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Date: 2011-05-30 08:54 pm (UTC)First, "write a certain number of folks every month" ... sending personal letters?
Second, "day today computer use" -> "day to day" or "day-to-day" most likely.
Third, "my punctuation allowed" probably means "aloud" but homonyms are homononymous that way.
And when did you become the poster boy for "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" anyway?
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Date: 2011-05-31 02:07 am (UTC)After spending a great deal of time yesterday training and otherwise working with the speech recognizer, I have found it has become considerably more accurate. I have been able to dictate most of this post without having to go back and make corrections, in fact. It's really amazing to me, almost magical in a way. I just have to remember to speak naturally, and to pronounce my punctuation, and I get the most amazing results. Of course, sometimes I get the most amusing results instead (for example, "almost magical in Hawaii" and "to pronounce why can't chew a shin") but on the whole, it's remarkable. Which is really sanity-saving, since I would go nuts if I couldn't communicate, and I'm not going to be doing any hundred-words-a-minute typing for the foreseeable future.
As for the no good deed thing, you've got me.
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Date: 2011-06-02 07:20 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF4qii8S3gw