Tag Archive: conversations

I’m taking my hot cocoa and going home!

So I was on Craigslist… (oh good grief, I know what a toxic wasteland it is, just get off my case already.) So anyhoo, I was on Craigslist in the strictly platonic section, and surprisingly enough, I find an ad by a girl looking for someone to accompany her for pleasant conversations and the best…

Meet the new guy, just as batsh*% crazy as the old

So my new supervisor has been here a few days, and so far I’m thinking he won’t be too much of a problem. He knows enough to stay out of our way, and he’s already carved out an cubicle igloo for himself, leaving me to keep what is now formerly the supervisor’s desk, so I’m…

I need MORE Power, Scotty!

Hearing aid fittings seems to be more of an art than a science, evidently. I noticed a clarity right away to the sounds I was hearing after being fitted with my new aids, but it’s possible these aids might be a bit underpowered for my degree of loss, so the audiologist wants to fit me…

The Six Thousand Dollar Man

Today I get fitted with my new $6000 hearing aids, the Destiny 1600 by Starkey. I’m not expecting miracles, or the ability to hear conversations from 100 yards away, but it would be nice to have a normal conversation in noisy settings for once without finding myself trapped in a puffy shirt situation. I grew…

The Price of Hearing

I just came back from the audiologist and learned how much my new hearing aids would cost. $5,700. Fortunately health insurance is footing roughly half of the bill, but I’m still out close to 3 grand. @#%$ man, and I was getting so close to paying off my credit card debt too. These are supposed…

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