I know I have hearing problems and am
procrastinating getting hearing aids. (Walt picked up some information
for me at Costco, but I haven't been able to read through it yet).
But the TV drives me nuts, hearing problems
or not.
For one thing, you finally get the sound
level right and then a commercial comes on at what is at least half again
the volume, so you have to turn it down and then back up with the TV program
comes back on again.
So then you go to Netflix and go to watch
something like House of Cards or Orange is the New Black and
the volume is so low that whereas you have the volume set at, say, 25, for
TV shows, you have to raise it to 70 or sometimes as high as 90 in order to
hear the Netflix video. Then, God help you if you forget to turn the
volume back down again before you turn back to the regular TV channels.
But then there are things I don't understand.
When I wake up in the middle of the night and can't sleep, Morning Joe
is a great thing to put on, at a low volume. Unless #45 is going
batshit crazy again, it usually puts me to sleep. But if there has
been a volley of tweets and lots to discuss, the show keeps me awake, but I
have the volume set at 12 or lower and have absolutely no problem whatever
in hearing the show. When the sun comes up even if there is no other
sound in the house, I have to turn the sound up to 25 in order to hear what
I had been able to hear a couple of hours before when it was quiet.
(These are the first world problems
that irritate us!)
I am missing more and more of the dialog in
shows that I review and I know that hearing aids will have to be a major
purchase this year. I am afraid of some things about them -- mostly
that I will lose them. or break them.
How do you handle hearing aids with
earphones? I have essentially worthless speakers for my computer, but
I just listen to everything with ear phones. If I have hearing aids
will I have to also get new speakers for the phone, and give up listening to
audio books on the bus?
I didn't need to worry about volume level
watching whatever that mess was that was supposed to be an interrogation of
Sessions. Never saw so much stonewalling and avoiding questions in my
life. And why? Because he didn't want to reveal a conversation
with the president in case one day the president might want to evoke
executive privilege.
And didja see that now it's all back in
Hillary's lap? Whenever the heat turns up on the misdeeds in the
administration, sure as shooting they will answer with some variation of
"yeah--but what about Hillary!"
I loved Kamala Harris, who, as a former
prosecuting attorney knows how to question a witness. She was
interrupted twice by the chairman for improper questioning.
This whole thing just makes me sick.
And I do hope you managed to catch the
love-in at the first cabinet meeting. Here is Jack Ohman's cartoon:
Reflections on Donald Trump's cabinet...
How soon before we're all going to be
required to refer to him as "our beloved Leader" ??
I'm glad that I am now forcing myself to turn
off the TV and sit and READ. Somehow walking through the forests of
Narnia is much more pleasant...witch or no witch.
Send Aslan to Congress....
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Re hearing aids - one of the gals here has just gotten them. They are put in, and not removed for two months. Then back to the audiologist for replacements. I guess that's sort of like the contact lenses that are left in for x-amount of time, and then discarded. The only thing I've noticed is that now she talks so softly and I cannot hear her. I think she's hearing herself talk for the first time in ages and wants to be sure she's not shouting. (She's 95, so I don't want to confuse her by asking. LOL) I never thought about using headphones, though. I guess you'll find all that out when you go for an exam and to talk to them about it.
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