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Prof. West Wing Chicken Fried Shack

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Retired software developer, musician, photographer and broadcaster. Putting the fun in dysfunction. My insanity keeps me sane


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Ginger?

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Well, I've long ago achieved the cranky old boomer part, and I am well versed in driving along the beach front, cranking out the music I enjoy very bloody loudly from my car (top down of course) so I think I'm just about there. Sadly, I'm going to need to sell the car. 🤧

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Thanx. It's good to be finally able to get out. A couple of moments of apprehension but I managed.

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The cat's very clever, posting online ... 😊

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Solo. Out on my own for the first time since October.

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Keef! 😁

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Then there's just the routine grocery delivery, left on the floor, but too heavy to be easily lifted from the floor to somewhere more accessible. And yesterday's amazon delivery just dropped off. Into the wrong entrance 😖

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And I find that typically things find their way to the floor several times daily. Taking something out from the pantry, but knocking something adjacent to it. Chopping some food within the very limited space that I have and some of it spills to the floor.

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One of the most infuriating, frustrating things that happens to me now that I am disabled is when I deop something (or it falls) in the kitchen. I need to grab my reacher tool - usually elsewhere in the kitchen - and use it to retrieve what was dropped. This morning I dropped the reacher tool. 😖

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These cakes are awesome. They're also very welcome.

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Drinking coffee. I've just finished breakfast, which was a custard tart thingy that my social worker bought for me yesterday from Shadow Baking. They make wonderful cakes, based upon those that I've been privileged to enjoy, and my social worker is an absolute angel for bringing these for me. ♥️🍰

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Absolutely. Looking forward to finally being able to get out and about ... a little.

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Wheelchair arrived. 😊 Took it for a couple of short spins up the road. It all went well. Now to learn how to use it safely

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Busy day today My carer can't come tomorrow, so she's due now. Powered wheelchair should be here around 11, and my social worker is coming earlier than our 12:30 appointment to assist. And I need to speak with my lawyer about the pathway we're building to enable access with the wheelchair.

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Happy July 4 everybody

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True 👇

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a text message applogising for their tardiness and saying that the order will be here ... by 10:55. Just received a repeat of that message, telling me that the order will be here twenty minutes ago. 😖☹️ Good service it's not.

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Gotta love it when you get great customer service. Today is not one of those days, right @Coles ? Received my grocery delivery this morning, about 9:45. None of the usual SMS messages telling me that it's been picked up, on the way, etc, but that's basically ok. Just received

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Yes. I'm not disagreeing with you; merely suggesting a slightly different path.

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Vote like you get to lock his cell and throw away the key? 😀

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I've been told that it will be here Thursday morning. I certainly hope so

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Still waiting for my powered wheelchair delivery, which was promised for this Thursday, but about which I have not yet heard anything from the incommunicative supplier. I've just sent a note to my transitional care team in order to try to expedite matters.

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Give my regards to Broadway 😆

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Having been found under a cabbage leaf in Straya, but residing in the USofA for a number of years, I did exactly this on my birthday, celebrating it over the whole time that the date was active throughout the whole world. Basically a forty hour birthday. So, done. More time to be kind to you

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And for those who observe this, I'm going in to St Vincent's today to have my SPC replaced. This will be ne lunchtime entertainment. ☹️😖

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I have it diarised as July 1, but why not celebrate it over both days?

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Happy Be Nice To @stilgherrian.com Day today.

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Thanks. I said that I'm finding it confronting; I can only imagine how Helen is dealing with this.

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Thanx.

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Good luck. Did you look at the link I sent you about preparing for it a few months back? I found it very helpful. Bottom line is to not be proud about anything. Be open about your issues and conditions; you're needing to get assistance

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My half-sister has been travelling through Germany and Poland, visiting places from the holocaust, our mum's childhood pre and during the war, and her dad's childhood. Old ghettos and concentration camps, synagogues and cemeteries. Some of her photos are very confronting for me.

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👋👋👋 Willing to help ...

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Well that changes things somewhat. Good luck, and you know who to send the leftovers to. 🤭

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It's food. How does it taste? 🙃

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Similarly reposed

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Please email me a couple of slices.

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No red sauce? Skip the pepperoni.

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Oh yes, verily noice.

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That's the way the butter flies ... 😀

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Sunday morning here in Bondi where it's raininging.

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Tiktoker: wow this kitchen tool is so niche and stupid who even needs this? Person with a disability who it is meant for and literally made their life in the kitchen 200% easier:

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This is about invisible illness specifically, although mine isn't so invisible right now! 🤣

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It depends. I had no issues when I lived in the US, and my younger son has very good insurance (and other conditions) with his employer. It really depends on your insurer, which is mostly governed by your employment

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Don't you just love it when you get people who are not your medical practitioner telling you how much meds you can take? ☹️

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As long as it's only the plot that thickens. 🤭

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Obviously Nurse Ratchet

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How is that even possible?

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So, you're saying that he weighs 21.8g? Oh, wait ... 🙃

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Thanks. Compassionate doses ? 😊🤧

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Hotpod is heating up for me before I wander out onto the balcony for a quiet ceegar and some footy watching.

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