Friday, March 09, 2007

Cassette Tapes

How to Transfer Cassette Tape to Computer - WikiHow

I thought this might be helpful for those of you 60's, 70's, and 80's old-schoolers, like myself, whose main music stash is on cassette. Lately I've been lamenting the fact that cars no longer have cassette players. I mean, come on! CDs are nice, but the majority of us have astounding cassette libraries that should not go to waste.

Groundhog Day

Yup, things are feeling a bit repetitive.

Being stirred out of a dead sleep by Sir yelling "Me-Me"...
Changing Sir's diaper...
Making bed while Sir brushes his teeth and washes his face with Annie (his grandmother)...
Putting away our pajamas...
Changing our clothes...
Washing my face and brushing my teeth...
Applying lotion and oils to Sir's and my body...
Heading to the kitchen...
Making oatmeal for the 300th time...
Preparing the rest of our breakfast...
Placing Sir in the highchair where he complains that I'm moving too slow--even though it's only 7AM...
Watching mom give Sir a snack to quiet him down until breakfast is ready...
Saying grace...
Eating...
Watching cowboy pictures as we eat and chat with mom about news events...
Being forced to watch an 5-minute episode of Go Baby to quiet Sir's demands for his own form of entertainment...
Cleaning the total mess off Sir's face--most of his food is in his lap...
Washing dishes for the first of 5 times for the day...
Cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning...
Giving Sir his iron and vitamin supplements (he would inherit my low-iron problem)...
Taking my own iron and vitamin supplements...
Changing Sir's poopy diaper...
**Nikki Ann clears her throat** Changing my own poopy diaper...
Doing some Household chores...
Helping mom, who's out of commission due to the surgery she had on her foot...
Sitting here at 8:50 AM, afraid to admit that Sir has poop'd AGAIN. Not wanting to change that poop, but knowing that I must...
Dreaming of spending some time at my favorite place: The bookstore....
Leaving to change poopy diaper...
Goodbye.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

2,267 Sundays To Go

In The News: Woman sues doctors after failed abortion - Yahoo! News

BOSTON - A Boston woman who gave birth after a failed abortion has filed a lawsuit against two doctors and Planned Parenthood seeking the costs of raising her child.

The complaint was filed by Jennifer Raper, 45, last week in Suffolk Superior Court and still must be screened by a special panel before it can proceed to trial.

Raper claimed in the three-page medical malpractice suit that she found out she was pregnant in March 2004 and decided to have an abortion for financial reasons.

Dr. Allison Bryant, a physician working for Planned Parenthood at the time, performed the procedure on April 9, 2004, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant," according to the complaint.

Raper then went to see Dr. Benjamin Eleonu at Boston Medical Center in July 2004, and he failed to detect the pregnancy even though she was 20 weeks pregnant at the time, the lawsuit alleges.

It was only when Raper went to the New England Medical Center emergency room for treatment of pelvic pain in late September that year that she found out she was pregnant, the suit said.

She gave birth to a daughter on Dec. 7, 2004.

She is seeking damages, including child-rearing costs.

Raper and her lawyer, Barry C. Reed Jr., refused comment when contacted by The Boston Globe.

A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood said the organization does not comment on pending litigation.

Neither doctor responded to requests for comment.

Raper alleges in the suit that Planned Parenthood and Bryant were negligent for failing to end her pregnancy and that Eleonu was negligent for failing to see she was still pregnant.

The state's high court ruled in 1990 that parents can sue physicians for child-rearing expenses, but limited those claims to cases in which children require extraordinary expenses because of medical problems, medical malpractice lawyer Andrew C. Meyer Jr. said.

Raper's suit has no mentions of medical problems involving her now 2-year-old daughter.

As with all medical malpractice suits in Massachusetts, Raper's complaint will have to be screened by a tribunal consisting of a Superior Court judge, a lawyer, and a doctor to determine whether it has merit to go to trial.
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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe