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Another angry moment!

Hey everyone!

I am tired of apologizing for a blog, then a big long span before the next one! I have things to say and I will say them! Whenever I like!

Just now, I got very angry at myself, actually it happened twice within 5 minutes.

What made me angry? Let me tell you, I dropped the same thing three times in about 30 seconds! I wanted to hurl that thing across the room, being so angry! But, knowing my aim, and the new 55′ TV in left field, I couldn’t throw that thing!

That was the first angry moment. The second was totally irritating and totally avoidable, totally!

I was trying to take a picture of that thing to post on facebook. Good shot first and second time, then I decided to get a zoomed shot; so I’d line it up, pinch-open on my iPad, focus, touching… selfie button to flip to self camera. First two times I was like, alright. Third time is the charm they say, right? Not for me! That third attempt to take a picture in zoom, I touched selfie cam, which flipped camera, and then I activated some inane feature that I couldn’t figure out what it was for, and couldn’t get back to normal camera… I was flabbergasted; “What the bleeping bleep!” and “You bleeping idiot!” came out of my mouth in rapid succession! I also let go of the iPad, which dropped to the carpeted floor, wrapping itself in its case! You’d think I was mad at someone who defrauded me of much more than an inability to see the difference between the self-cam and the take-a-picture icon on my iPad!

The fourth time, I lined up the shot, but again selected selfie-cam, which is right above the take-a-picture icon.

The fifth time, I finally lined the shot up, found the picture icon by putting something black behind the image so I could mark it, then moved iPad back to image, and, with thumb hovering over the picture icon, finally took a shot!

Here is the image:

Did I drop that thing because of areflexia, or did I not see the camera icon clearly? Or was I just be stubborn and annoyed?

This sort of thing happens too often!

Any now for something different; its snowing again! Booo!

Response

  1. your photo looks great!
    and
    we are going to be getting freezing rain here tomorrow, so I second your BOO!

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Craig MacLean is DeafBlind with ataxia, a rare condition called CAPOS. He & his wife of 22 years have two sons, the oldest of which has CAPOS as well.

Craig uses American Sign Language to communicate. He is an avid writer, friend, Hot Wheel collector and intervenor advocate.

Craig sits on many committees, boards and associations as a DeafBlind rep. He graduated university with a BA in psychology in 2000.