Steve and Judy's Travels!

It’s called a Multi Mic (pronounced Mike).

It’s a microphone on a lanyard.  The Multi Mic is made by the same company that makes Judy’s hearing aids, and it broadcasts a Bluetooth signal right into her head (if she’s wearing the hearing aids).  Until now, she could hear conversations but couldn’t always pick out the words.  Through the Multi Mic, she gets the clarity she needs to turn sounds back into words and be able to follow the conversation.

If it’s just Judy and me, I wear it around my neck.  If she’s talking with someone else, she can take it with her and hear the other person even if they’re not wearing it.  It’s totally awesome and a game changer.

And, bonus, while I was wearing the Multi Mic, we even inadvertently recreated a scene from Naked Gun from all those years ago.

Fortunately, we only recreated that scene in Judy’s head through her hearing aids, and not for the entire waiting room at the doctor’s office.

We’ve reached Lady Godiva look.

Perhaps next up is Rapunzel.

The presents piling high underneath the Christmas Tree, carefully (not) wrapped by Amazon and UPS, in line with our strategy of ordering whatever we need (and sometimes just want) online, then not opening the packages until Christmas morning.

Before.

Old.  A little crooked.  Clunky.

Now.

Neat.  Clean.  Seats six.

Now we can have more than two friends!

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it glows

All of the other reindeer
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Rudolph
Join in any reindeer games

Then one foggy Christmas Eve
Santa came to say
Rudolph, with your nose so bright
Won’t you guide my sleigh tonight?

Then how the reindeer loved him
As they shouted out with glee
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
You’ll go down in history

Okay.  It was a happy ending for Rudolph, and Santa got what he needed.  But what about all the other reindeer?  They were terrible people to begin with.  They teased Rudolph for being different and wouldn’t play with him, and Santa apparently didn’t intervene.  Then when the reindeer discovered that the boss liked Rudolph because he was useful, the suck-ups decided that Rudolph was a hero.  Did Rudolph change?  No.  Did Santa?  No.  What about all the other reindeer that were jerks?

Well, the story is set to nice jingly music.