[Gwynn ap Nudd]

I am not going to work tomorrow. I just worked 12 days straight because of how tight deadlines are, but tomorrow I am not going to work. It just sunk in. Wow, I am not working tomorrow. Feels great.

[Mezla PigDog]

Mezla PigDog, on 28 March 2021 - 07:53 PM, said:

Growing season is upon us. Windowsill space is getting hard to come by as usual due to my abundance of seed trays. I still have half of my crop to sow. It's lame but growing stuff this time of years gives that feeling of better things to come. Needed more than ever this year.

Sown the other half of my crop. 104 plants needing space indoors for the next month or so. Definitely need more windowsills.

[Traveller]

Mezla PigDog, on 03 April 2021 - 03:07 PM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 28 March 2021 - 07:53 PM, said:

Growing season is upon us. Windowsill space is getting hard to come by as usual due to my abundance of seed trays. I still have half of my crop to sow. It's lame but growing stuff this time of years gives that feeling of better things to come. Needed more than ever this year.

Sown the other half of my crop. 104 plants needing space indoors for the next month or so. Definitely need more windowsills.

It's so good to see the daily progress. Been lazy this year with seed trays, rescued some frogspawn from the pond though so we've got tadpoles to watch.
Amazing how a few degrees of warmth speeds up their growth.

[Malankazooie]

Man. SportsCenter has got that buzzer beater by Gonzaga on half hour rotation. Shit was off the chain.

Due to weird shit cause 'da rona' I went chalk with my bracket. What'd you guys do?

[Tiste Simeon]

Hey Macros I'm gonna need you to verify the accuracy of this picture, titled "The Irish View of Europe" (which is making me happy as it was a bit of a laugh when I saw it):

Spoiler

MODGOD NOTICE OF SPOILER CODE ADDED BCS
FFS WTF IS THAT AND WHY
IS IT SO FNKING HUGE

This post has been edited by Abyss: 22 April 2021 - 02:52 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Productive bank holiday weekend. Got 4000 words written on book 3!

[Macros]

Not in the slightest Tiste, far too polite about the English and alas most people here are less than complimentary about the eastern European nations.

Buuuuuut I get the gist everyone but the English, which I naturally agree with

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

My progress with cochlear implants is amazing. I can have phone conversations no problem. Find I am not really relying on captioning anymore on some TV programs, which is crazy. Listening to music, especially anything with distortion, is still a work in progress - but there is noticeable progress. Speech recognition test scores going from with hearing aids before surgery, day after turn on, one month and now three months were:
Easy test 14%-67%-95%-didn't bother with it, it was too easy for me
Hard test 8%-37%-78%-95%

The astounding part to me is that in quiet settings (work, audie's office, during testing, etc.) I don't need to make any conscious effort to understand most people now. I know I am making some extra effort, as days were I have lots of meetings I am mentally exhausted at the end of the day. But, nowhere near the amount of effort it took to speech read even three years ago before my hearing dove off again. Even in an ideal situation speech reading is really hard work, that I can just sit back and hear things instead is mind blowing.

[Maark Abbott]

Macros, on 28 March 2021 - 08:41 PM, said:

Malankazooie, on 28 March 2021 - 06:34 PM, said:

Awwww yeah! USA Men's National team beat Northern Ireland. First win over a Euro opponent in almost six years.

- Medal at this summer's Olympics.
- World Cup champs in 2022 in Qatar.

Too high expectations?

You should move to England and support them, you'll blend right in

CAM ON INGERLUND SCAW SAM FACKIN GAWLS

[Maark Abbott]

Gym reopened. My mood has shot upwards since. Everything hurts but I'm so happy. God I really am a filthy masochist aren't I.

[Mezla PigDog]

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 09 April 2021 - 02:46 AM, said:

My progress with cochlear implants is amazing. I can have phone conversations no problem. Find I am not really relying on captioning anymore on some TV programs, which is crazy. Listening to music, especially anything with distortion, is still a work in progress - but there is noticeable progress. Speech recognition test scores going from with hearing aids before surgery, day after turn on, one month and now three months were:
Easy test 14%-67%-95%-didn't bother with it, it was too easy for me
Hard test 8%-37%-78%-95%

The astounding part to me is that in quiet settings (work, audie's office, during testing, etc.) I don't need to make any conscious effort to understand most people now. I know I am making some extra effort, as days were I have lots of meetings I am mentally exhausted at the end of the day. But, nowhere near the amount of effort it took to speech read even three years ago before my hearing dove off again. Even in an ideal situation speech reading is really hard work, that I can just sit back and hear things instead is mind blowing.

Really enjoying reading your updates on this. Glad you enjoying having your mind blown!

[Malankazooie]

Did you guys see that flight on Mars?



That's a watershed moment for sure. I sorta think we should be putting that brain power to use in solving our climate problems down here, but that was something behold.

Now the downside is, an advanced alien intelligence that has been observing us will probably take that as the step in our progress as the moment they need to intervene and wipe us out, lest we continue and become a threat.

[Slow Ben]

I've been so swamped with work I havent been on here in like 2 weeks, which is awesome, and also sucks.

Back to work.

[Gwynn ap Nudd]

Mezla PigDog, on 14 April 2021 - 07:40 PM, said:

Gwynn ap Nudd, on 09 April 2021 - 02:46 AM, said:

My progress with cochlear implants is amazing. I can have phone conversations no problem. Find I am not really relying on captioning anymore on some TV programs, which is crazy. Listening to music, especially anything with distortion, is still a work in progress - but there is noticeable progress. Speech recognition test scores going from with hearing aids before surgery, day after turn on, one month and now three months were:
Easy test 14%-67%-95%-didn't bother with it, it was too easy for me
Hard test 8%-37%-78%-95%

The astounding part to me is that in quiet settings (work, audie's office, during testing, etc.) I don't need to make any conscious effort to understand most people now. I know I am making some extra effort, as days were I have lots of meetings I am mentally exhausted at the end of the day. But, nowhere near the amount of effort it took to speech read even three years ago before my hearing dove off again. Even in an ideal situation speech reading is really hard work, that I can just sit back and hear things instead is mind blowing.

Really enjoying reading your updates on this. Glad you enjoying having your mind blown!

Glad people are enjoying these. I do have one caution and one regret with the implants, for anyone who might look at them at some point in the future.

The caution is that my speech recognition scores are much higher than typical. According to the audiologist, my three month scores were close to the average for three years after turn on. I think this has something to do with how good a speech reader I was and how long I had stable, but barely usable hearing. The regret is that I wasn't able to have it done sooner. The only sounds that really sound natural are ones I can hear with the opposite ear, usually while wearing a hearing aid. Between wait lists and Covid surgery cancelations, I probably lost 200-300Hz of natural hearing between when I was eligible for surgery and when I had it. So, if anyone needs this, have it done as soon as possible. I think sounds will become more natural over time, but it could be a long process now.

[Mezla PigDog]

I don't really understand the science of implants but it is amazing what the brain can do. It must be so interesting testing yourself and being able to measure the change.

[Maark Abbott]

Mezla PigDog, on 21 April 2021 - 09:53 PM, said:

I don't really understand the science of implants but it is amazing what the brain can do. It must be so interesting testing yourself and being able to measure the change.

Now? They let you hear.

In ten years? You stand around in trenchcoats looking moody and say stuff like "My vision is augmented" or "I never asked for this".

[Tsundoku]

I just saw "the science of implants" and my mind went in a totally different direction ...

[Maark Abbott]

Tsundoku, on 22 April 2021 - 08:32 AM, said:

I just saw "the science of implants" and my mind went in a totally different direction ...

Insert any Bender quote you want here

[EmperorMagus]

The powers that be willing, and the tyranny of jinx allowing, I believe I just did my last law school (of Zoom) assignment today.

All hail!

[worry]

Congrats!