IAN: Good Morning, May 12, 2013

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Saturday May 11, 2013 · 9:52 PM PDT

2013/05/11 · 21:52

Sunday!

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

Noddy

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Saturday May 11, 2013 · 8:51 PM PDT

2013/05/11 · 20:51

I've already handled much of this in private to the appropriate parties.

I refrained from responding to comments and even from reading most of them until the matter was resolved. And now that the matter is resolved between the principals, you can have the rest of the story, as Paul Harvey always said.

Noddy

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Saturday May 11, 2013 · 10:17 AM PDT

2013/05/11 · 10:17

This is a picture heavy diary, with various pictures and explanations of Itzl's signals and sign language.

Some of y'all already know Itzl, and how he's a signal dog, or a hearing assistance dog for me, a person with a hearing impairment. I'm not deaf, but I can't hear essential sounds: sirens, alarms, warning signals, horns, children's voices, microphone feedback, baby cries, cat yowls, small dog barks, and so on and so on. Some of it I'm glad I don't hear (microphone feedback, fingernails on a chalkboard....). Some of it I miss dearly (music). Itzl bridges the way between what I can't hear and what I need to hear.

We've been partnered for nine years, so we've developed a language of our own that is almost invisible to others, but I've managed to capture some of them in pictures, and I use them in his Service Dog Logbook.

If you have a service dog, I highly recommend keeping one because it allows you to track the effectiveness of your dog and alerts you to problems before they get bad, plus, if you self-trained your dog and you have to prove to authorities that s/he really is a service dog, a logbook of training with pictures can be very useful. And when your dog is retired, it serves as a scrapbook of your dog's career so when you are ready for a new service dog, you have all that documentation to help you either train a new service dog or gives a training and placement service an idea of what you expect and need from a service dog.

These are some of the pictures in Itzl's logbook.

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Friday May 10, 2013 · 9:51 PM PDT

2013/05/10 · 21:51

Saturday!

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

Noddy for Itzl Alert Network

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Thursday May 09, 2013 · 9:58 PM PDT

2013/05/09 · 21:58

Friday

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

Noddy

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Thursday May 09, 2013 · 11:43 AM PDT

2013/05/09 · 11:43

Our mantra for birthdays has always been: Family, Friends, Food, and Fun.

As a Numenist, birthdays are big deals, and not having one was always problematic for me. Since no one knew my exact birthday, I often "hitched" my birthday to someone else's. I did keep it to celebrating once in each calendar year.

In fact, I think celebrating a birthday with someone else who's having a birthday makes it better. I speak from nearly 70 years' experience sharing birthdays with someone else. The maximum number of people sharing a birthday so far has been 6 - the more people there are with a birthday, the more guests there are and the bigger and better the birthday is.

Noddy for Itzl Alert Network

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Wednesday May 08, 2013 · 9:23 PM PDT

2013/05/08 · 21:23

Thursday

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

Noddy

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Wednesday May 08, 2013 · 8:59 AM PDT

2013/05/08 · 08:59

Cloth or disposable? That's the question, especially with birth to death diapers now available, and potty training delayed for years.

In my opinion, disposable diapers have contributed to the trend to keep toddlers in diapers for longer and longer times, what with those "pull-ups" and "big kid" diapers. There's a diaper size for everyone except the smallest preemies. Those preemie diapers are often huge on the smallest preemies - my 2 youngest were premature and potty trained before they were large enough to wear the disposable premature pampers. That's why they wore handkerchiefs as diapers before they graduated to the birds-eye flats.

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Wednesday May 08, 2013 · 6:08 AM PDT

2013/05/08 · 06:08

Wednesday!

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

Noddy for Itzl Alert Network

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Tuesday May 07, 2013 · 6:06 AM PDT

2013/05/07 · 06:06

Tuesday!

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

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Monday May 06, 2013 · 7:00 PM PDT

2013/05/06 · 19:00

I hate mowing so very much that I ran away from home for a day to avoid it. Of course, we all know that means when I do finally mow, the grass will be that much taller and harder to chop down. Still, it was worth it, because I got to view the behemoths of steam in action.

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Sunday May 05, 2013 · 9:37 PM PDT

2013/05/05 · 21:37

Monday!

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
If you'd like to be part of the Itzl Alert Network, please leave a comment asking to join, or send us a message asking to join. We'd love to have you. The bigger our network, the less likely someone will be stranded all alone.

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