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Thought Records 21 Feb 2013 | 04:03 am
It has almost been a year since I last posted on this blog. Things have not changed much since those days. Looking back, I see that my last post was 7 days after my PATH session, and I was all excited...
Work, employment, and income plans for my future 26 Apr 2012 | 12:15 pm
It has been about 7 days now since our PATH session, and this is the first opportunity I have had to get back to this weblog about it. I'll post more later about the session, how it went, what I thoug...
Things I need to remember for our PATH tomorrow 18 Apr 2012 | 07:24 am
One website that I have used in the past is called Remember the Milk, which is a task list creation and organizing tool. In this instance, I really do need to "remember the milk", for the tea and coff...
Photo session and invitations 15 Apr 2012 | 04:50 pm
Last night, my wife and I went to Misty Valley, where WALSH Trust have been building a new community seat / chair out of adobe bricks and ceramics. We used the area to take some photos for the PATH se...
Planning for my PATH session 14 Apr 2012 | 02:02 pm
Things are progressing nicely towards my PATH session, which I mentioned in an earlier post here. I now have a date and a venue for the PATH session. I just need to organize my guest list and send out...
Publishing my own standards 19 Mar 2012 | 10:13 am
As I mentioned on my study blog, I attended Brain Day at Auckland University's Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences this weekend, and sat in on a lecture about Autism. The lecturer, Dr Rosamund Hill...
Social Role Valorization 12 Mar 2012 | 07:48 am
My further investigation into PATH has lead me to the term "Social Role Valorization" (SRV). When my wife first read the word "valorization", I remember she questioned whether such a word even existe...
I won a $1,000 PATH 11 Mar 2012 | 02:43 pm
Over the last two days I attended The B!g Event, a health and disability expo at the ASB Showgrounds in Greenlane. One of the things that really caught my eye, my mind, and my imagination, was a visua...
Restarting the restart 23 Feb 2012 | 11:09 pm
It has been about 334 days, or 47 weeks, just under a year in fact, since I last posted here. Quite a bit has happened since then. But then, I haven't really done that much either. Although I still h...
How far is too far? 27 Mar 2011 | 05:21 pm
The knee is healing up fine now, but is still a bit sore. I'm still "hop-a-long Cassidy", but not as bad as I used to be. My blood & lipid test results came back a while ago. My HBA1C was 8.1% (which...