Epic Ramen

I’m going to narrate my recipe for epic ramen. I’ll try to make it into a more formal recipe if I can, but there’s going to be narrative and commentary first.

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On Eldercare 11 – Cats

I’m just going to point you to Hanne’s post here.

Subtitles in Netflix on Apple TV

This is so seriously unadvertised it’s almost criminal (and is it, under the ADA? I don’t know.).

Anyway, for titles on Netflix that support it, with Apple TV’s newest 4.4.2 update (I don’t know if it was supported earlier than that – I just figured it out), you start playing the title, then you press [...]

On Eldercare, part 10 – Correspondence

I am at a business conference (about SharePoint 2010) in Anaheim, CA this week, so I wrote a letter this morning for my Dad. Hanne will print it out and hand it to him.

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On Eldercare, part 8 – The wonders of moderate dementia

The combination of confusion and short term memory failure is really interesting from a psychological standpoint. For the caregiver I recommend a sort of Zen Buddhist attitude toward optimizing the caregiven’s moment to moment experience.

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On Eldercare, part 7 – Identity

One of the largest pains in the butt is identity.

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What have I been up to?

A list.

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On Eldercare, part 6 – Death and Cats

Our Elder Statescat, Mrs. Calabash, at age 18 just passed away Sunday night. Dad was present for initial diagnosis and recommended in a moment of clarity that we at least talk with our Vet about the option of euthanasia.

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On Eldercare, part 5 – Carnival of forgetfulness

A catalog (because I’m too logey to be more constructive than that) of vignettes of weird things Dad’s been doing lately.

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On Eldercare, part 4 – The Bureaucracy and Personal ID

We are slowly working our way through the bureaucracy. If I could do it all again, I think I would have done all I could to avoid having Dad’s California Driver’s License expire without getting the California DMV to issue a personal ID. The lack of ID gets in the way of so many bureaucratic [...]