August 10, 2012

  • Google Guesses And Me

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    I've been googling for information on my upcoming surgery on my left carotid artery and I discovered a couple funny things.   First of all, Google tries to guess what you are going to type in the subject field and, as you add letters, it changes damn near as fast as you type.  It really is funny.  Try it some time and pay attention to how quickly it changes on you....

    The other thing is that there seems to be a drop-off point where it loses track of just what you want.  Or, perhaps, I was TOO specific.  It's hard to say.   But, suddenly, the places on the page got really strange and unrelated to what I was interested in finding.  I went back to the subject line and got a bit LESS specific and got a much better bunch of links.

    Bratfink is the Google champion as far as I am concerned.  She has Googled some weird things and come up with the answers time and time again.  Some of the questions, I wouldn't have known how to even start to address.  But I am learning.  She shares.  **Grin**

    I'm also going to ask my doctor about his preferences as far as the way to treat the artery.  There is another option he never mentioned and I'm going to ask him why when I talk to him on Tuesday.

    Today was an all-day Chewlee day but the day seemed to fly by.  She is still fascinated with the Clue game, especially the *differences* part.  We spent a couple hours doing those.  There are 82 different scenarios (and I have them all!) with six different parts to each one.  We usually do three or four before she takes a break for an hour or more and then she wants to play either Clue or one of the other hidden object games on Pogo.  She will eventually get tired of them when she starts to repeat episodes more than once and it gets easier.  She really likes to be challenged.  Her teachers will have their hands full with her. 

    She starts school next week (Hurrah!)  She needs the socialization and is so darn eager to learn more.  She wants to learn so much that she has started spelling words and trying hard to remember them.  I will ask her to spell them from time-to-time and she is so thrilled when she remembers.  She does recognize different words already when she sees them, even if she doesn't remember how to spell them all the time.  I'll have to get used to a whole different schedule for her now.  Some days she will be deposited here by the school bus and other days she will go home.  LOL...we're only a mile and a half away.  Not really a big deal.

    Love you all.  It's raining out and thundering so I want to get this posted while I can.  Be good.  Drive carefully.  Smile a lot.  Makes people nervous.