So I was in the shower the other morning, thinking. Seems 40% of my good ideas come from there, another 40% before bed, 5% when I’m drinking and the remaining 15% any other time in between. That little epiphany wasn’t what I was thinking about. I am thinking about designing a T-Shirt. Nothing fancy, but everything to do with Chiari Awareness. (more…)
Yesterday I found out about this app, Blogsy. Its an iPad app that lets you blog. It sounds droll when I say it like that, but it isnt just a text editor. (more…)
In September of 2009 I was diagnosed with Chiari Malfmormation. It causes the brain’s cerebellum to grow down through the hole in your skull. Basically, the skull formed a little small in that area and caused it to grow like that. Chiari can cause all sorts of trouble for people living with it, pain, muscle issues, nerve damage, etc…
I finally got an MRI ordered and was anxious for the results. I knew something wasn’t right, but was worried about what it could be. When I was diagnosed, I wasn’t too freaked out because I had something I had never heard of. I wasn’t daunted at the possible surgery. I was excited. (more…)
Dear Apple,
It would be marvelous is you could change the autocorrect for “tp” to “to” from “TP”. The rare occasions I might find myself needing to type TP, I’ll fight the autocorrect for correcting it to “to”.
I’m an average person, not in the business of TP’ing people’s houses or manufacturing TP. Quit making me fix this. “To” is a very common word!
Sincerely,
Josh Hearne
Anyone who was at least a teenager, I believe should have known what happened 10 years ago, when it happened. I was a freshman in high school, in my Algebra II class in a small town in East Texas. I remember there being some commotion in the hallways and the teachers spreading the news amongst themselves. They were trying to not let us know immediately. We were told within the hour, but before the second plane hit.
I remember a teacher who had cable tv ran to his room scrambling to get it sent to the library so more people could witness the events unfolding. That morning, any class we had didn’t matter. We didn’t learn what we were supposed to. We were mainly told to just make it through the day and not do anything stupid. I recall a few kids talking about who could’ve done such a thing. Problem being, we were only freshmen. We didn’t know much of the world of politics yet, and we weren’t following world events like I do now. This is the first time history unfolded in real time that we were let to see it without any filters.
In the 10 years since, we’ve cleaned up were the Twin Towers were. We’ve rebuilt the Pentagon. We’ve started building new World Trade Center buildings, and the memorial is to be dedicated today and opened to the public tomorrow. We’ve beefed up security, we’ve fought long and hard against terrorism abroad. We’ve killed Osama Bin Ladin. In regards to that day, I think we’ve gotten quite a bit of closure as a nation.
September 11th, 2001, the day everyone’s world stopped. Americans came together, we set aside petty differences to help heal our nation. The 2,983 that died that day will not be forgotten. I hope that today doesn’t lose it’s meaning as the generations grow older. Pearl Harbor was no different a tragedy, yet we still forget what December 7th was to a nation.
Let us never forget.
