Just the other day the lovely Mrs ERJ said "Homely idiot your ring izver groot Eunice to gitter earrings czechs!"
I said "What?"
She walked around so she was standing in front of me and said "HONEY, I DON'T THINK YOUR HEARING IS VERY GOOD. YOU NEED TO GET YOUR HEARING CHECKED"
Knowing that Mrs ERJ can be shy about seeking medical attention I agreed "Sure, if you want to get your hearing checked I might as well get mine checked too."
I was pleased to be able to tell her "The audiologist found absolutely no hearing loss in either ear."
That left her puzzled for some reason.
"Yup, she said there was so much ear-wax packed in there that there was no point in checking my hearing until that was dealt with" I elaborated.
The audiologist attempted to irrigate the wax out but to no avail. The plan is for me to use an over-the-counter product to soften the deposits before another attempt at irrigation.
I still think it was unfair of Mrs ERJ to call me a homely idiot. It must have been the stress from her wanting to go to the audiologist.
Hoot-owls
A hoot-owl calling woke me up at four this morning.
I find their calls comforting but then I have been fond of hooters since a very young age.
Google Trends
I stumbled across Google Trends yesterday.
It should come as no surprise that searches for Hamas, Hezbollah and Safe-houses are way up since the Hamas attack on Israel.
What surprised me was that Washington D.C. was disproportionate in the number of Google searches on the first two terms which might suggest that the State Department's expertise comes from internet searches (a little bit frightening) or that everybody wants to "look smart" at cocktail parties in D.C. so they try to become instant-experts.
The surprise hot-spot for the surge in searches on "Safe-houses" was Oregon. Advance rumbles of an impending seismic event? Steven Fink, author of Crisis Management states that most catastrophes send out signals in advance of their arrival. For example, there were over one-hundred recorded incidents of containment doors being left open at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India BEFORE the huge industrial spill (and who knows how many incidents were not recorded).
It is rarely in the news anymore, but don't forget that Portland is still experiencing regular, often nightly, riots by leftists/ liberals/ communists. It is considered by many to be a very bad idea to visit at night, and others avoid it at any time...
ReplyDeleteAs far as Bhopal goes, the Indian government is largely responsible for what happened there; they revoked the visas of the Americans who set it up and ran it properly and then installed a politically connected manager who turned everything off - including the refrigeration systems that kept MIC stable, against the advice of the remaining American trained staff.
Jonathan
Not to mention a disgruntled employee ran a water hose into the MIC storage tank to deliberately set off a runaway reaction. That was disclosed later by the accident investigation outside consultants. The "incident" was sabotage.
Deleteit's been an observation of mine that people who work or spend a lot of time outdoors make a lot of ear wax, sometimes too much.
ReplyDeleteOutdoorsmen often use power-equipment which is loud. Outdoorsmen sometimes use cordless drills that can be loud.
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Deleteand putting in ear plugs can push the wax back into a ridge.
You will be surprised how big the wax chunks are when they finally comes out of your ears.
ReplyDeleteUse ear wax combined with hair cuttings to make candles. You know, for the coming troubles.
ReplyDeleteUse the resulting candles for what, chemical warfare? I can't imagine how badly they would stink while burning.
DeleteYeah, my hearing is going downhill in a hurry... sigh... And I can believe State using the 'net', since they have thrown out most of the historical documents.
ReplyDeleteMark Gungor, who has the Youtube clip about men's brains vs. women's brains, with the boxes analogy, has a story about getting his hearing tested because he was missing too many things his wife was saying to him. That story comes in around 12-13 minutes here.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCbb9_uZcDA
Spoiler - his hearing checked out as perfect, so he started tracking when his wife was talking to him, and realized she would be talking to him three rooms away on the other side of the house. When he called her on it, and asked how she expected him to hear her that way, her response was "It doesn't matter, you don't listen to me anyway."
Wife told are friend he wasn't hearing well. He finally went to ear doc who put tweezers in his ear and pulled out a wax filled cotton end from a Qtip. When he exclaimed that sure helped the doc said wait a minute and reached back in and pulled another out. Wow, what a difference that made. Wife was thrilled but he wasn't as she talked all day long and he could now hear her.
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