Andi and I signed up to a new ISP and phone provider last week. they were supposed to install today.
It turns out that the new Fiber optic lines installed three years ago to the city are all on the wrong side of the sidewalk. They will have to wait until the spring thaw to install. They can't cross the sidewalk.
WTF? It's not like they don't know they put the boxes on the boulevards all over town.
I've asked them to see if they can pay the difference in my DSL bill since I can't take a contract with Qwest because of their lockin 1-3 year deals. I'm paying Qwest monthly rates $20+ higher until the switch.
For donations to the cause, as well as support for you.
Yeah, I think I'll have no trouble raising the required amount. I ought to set a new goal.
Daniel, I dreamt last night that I met you and Andi on the street and that you were taking a tandem bicycle cross-country and blogging about it. You were both very smiley and happy and rode off together. It was a very pleasant dream.
Yeah, I think I'll have no trouble raising the required amount. I ought to set a new goal.
Can't remember if it's come up here before, but don't forget to hit up the co. you work for. Many will match to certain amount or give some sort of donation outright. That's where my biggest donation came from when I did a 24-hour Danceathon in November.
I don't know if it's an Electra complex, so much as she'd really like me to be a little more exciting. *sigh*
Did you raise her on soaps? Hee.
Daniel, I dreamt last night that I met you and Andi on the street and that you were taking a tandem bicycle cross-country and blogging about it.
What a fun dream!
Cash, good luck with continuing not-throttling your eldest.
Oh, god. What an awful story: [link]
Damn. That is sad.
A psychiatrist diagnosed Rebecca Riley with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and bipolar disorder when she was 2 years old.
Is it even possible to diagnose either at that age?
Is it even possible to diagnose either at that age?
Yeah, I found that suspicious too, but I don't know a lot about child psychiatry. I do know that some of the meds she was on are not approved for children.
That is awful, vw. I would be surprised if it were not an accident. A guy I was friends with in HS died when his mother mixed his meds. The laundry list of medication sounds a little sensationalist to me too, but I would defer to someone who knows more than, "I can't imagine what they would've found in my system last week when I had horrid cramps and some bug."
Oh, yeah. I'm not passing judgment without more information. It's really sad.
Apparently there is no lower age limit to a bipolar diagnosis in the DSM, but 2? That just doesn't seem right.
Plus, while I've known some deeply troubled kids with serious disorders, medicating for ADHD in toddlerhood seems to me to be a function of unprepared parents not having the coping skills to deal with their energetic kids.
eta: Daisy Jane, you make a good point about mistakes. God knows I overdosed myself on Chlorcidene D when I was in high school by doubling the dosage and halving the intervals in a fevered state. Complete with hallucenations, it was a bad trip.
I guess I'm just pinged by all the recent stories about kids in foster care, or with irresponsible parents who go to extreme measures to control them. It's a personal issue, which has nothing do with this story...but it just seems suspicious to me.
