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Yeah, What They Said
I’ve done some editing of my three vacation entries. The last one in particular wasn’t as clear as it could have been, and it’s probably still not as clear as it could be. Unsurprisingly, I’ve found clearer, more pithy statements of the same problem and its antidote among the reading for this fall’s class. In… — read more
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It’s Better Than an Infection?
I just saw my ear doctor for the first time since his accident. He looked fine, which I found heartening. He didn’t get up from his rolling chair as he would normally, and he had a nurse to hand him things, but other than that, he showed no ill effects of his broken hip or… — read more
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Three Out of Three
Yesterday, I asked sardonically, as Dick put it, teasingly even, of my plans to get my phone fixed, “How can anything go wrong?” Dick rightly pointed out that I was needlessly tempting fate. Somewhere in the midst of my attempts to restore my dementia-riddled phone’s firmware, I managed to corrupt the Apple Mobile Device Service… — read more
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Two Down, One to Go
Wednesday, we made the long drive from Provincetown home, and returned to the more grey, more crowded, and definitely more dry city of New York. In the cab home from dropping the car at the garage (one of the joys of car ownership in Manhattan), I pulled the iPhone that was sitting dead in my… — read more
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What I Felt on My Summer Vacation
Buddhism is often described as the middle way, most commonly between the extreme views of nihilism and eternalism. And there’s certainly a great deal of profound madhyamaka philosophy thoroughly examining the cognitive implications of that description, but that may not help us less accomplished practitioners with the emotional responses that are the immediate cause of… — read more
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Impermanence Works
There is a syllogism that Buddhists often use to illustrate the concept of syllogism that states that sound is impermanent because it’s produced by causes. Sound isn’t different from most other observed phenomena in this regard, but its example serves as a nice illustration. Like sound, the suffering caused by sound is impermanent as well,… — read more
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Fear, Loathing, Uncooked Rice, and the Sheehy-House Insufflator
I’m back in Provincetown, and again I’m miserable. Immediately before we left, things were looking up, and W.A.S.T.E. did deliver my powder from Sam the Pharmacist as scheduled. It comes in four capsules that I’m to disassemble one at a time and load into the accompanying Sheehy-House Powder Insufflator (yes, one of the doctors who… — read more
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Sam the Pharmacist
I saw the other neurotologist this afternoon, another one with whom I’m very impressed, and told her the long saga of my ear. She listened, she asked questions, and at several points she correctly guessed what was coming next. The whole case–what my doctor had done, what should have happened, and what unfortunately happened instead–seemed… — read more
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I Didn’t Expect That
This morning, as I was finishing up The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment, my ear doctor’s office called. I had a tentative follow up appointment scheduled for tomorrow evening, before we go away, and there was the possibility that it would have to be moved around the doctor’s surgery schedule,… — read more
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Um, Okay….
Anticipated moments of truth often turn out not to be quite so clear cut. I saw the ear doctor this afternoon as a follow up to Monday’s appointment. It took him a while to clean out enough of the purple ink (gentian violet I’m told) to see what’s going on in my ear. And what’s… — read more
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