Done yesterday (20110627 Mo)

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Not a very eventful or notable day, which is on the whole an improvement on Sunday. I came home for lunch, after buying Colleen a 4-footed cane and looking at some scooters. The cane was an obvious next step for her, since she's been using her walker one-handed since breaking her arm; she gets around very well with it.

I looked at two scooters at Bischoff's. One was a Pride Celebrity X, they advertise it as disassembling into 7 pieces, but that includes the two batteries, for which one has to remove the cover and disconnect cables. One could do that for a long trip, maybe, but it's impractical for a quick jaunt to the store. Not that it would fit in the trunk of my Honda anyway -- we'd need a lift.

The other was clearly a travel scooter, used, no bigger than Colleen's current one, but the seat was lower and it looked a lot more stable. When I came home, I found that the seat-post on Rosebud could be lowered about an inch and a half. We determined that Colleen could still get in and out with the lower seat, so that's a big win. I'll have to see whether we can get the seat any lower, though I suspect not without power tools.

I think we will get a larger scooter eventually, since it would give her a lot more confidence and stability on streets and sidewalks. But we'll probably keep the GoGo for travel and indoor use. How we'd store the two of them is, of course, an open question. We might have to enclose the porch or clean out space in the garage.

It wasn't a very productive day at work, but once back home I managed to get in some practicing, and made progress emptying out the old Rolly.

No links, oddly enough.

My Westercon Schedule

So here's my schedule for Westercon, coming up this weekend at the San Jose Fairmont:

  o Sunday, Jul 03  1:00 PM to Sunday, Jul 03  2:30 PM in room: Club Regent
      The Internet Goes Interplanetary
      The "internet protocol" has been extended to support connectivity and
      communications off-planet. You may not be able to Instant Message but
      you will be able to send email. How will this affect long-duration space
      exploration? 

  o Sunday, Jul 03  3:15 PM to Sunday, Jul 03  4:00 PM in room: California
      Concert: Steve Savitzky
      Join Steve in songs about computers, space, fantasy, friendship, and love. 

  o Monday, Jul 04 10:00 AM to Monday, Jul 04 11:30 AM in room: Regency Ballroom 2
      The Future of Privacy
      Technology has made it easier for people to find and share
      information. At the same time it's become much more difficult to
      preserve personal privacy. How will the challenge to privacy affect us
      over the next 50 years? Is this a right to be protected, or is the
      concept of privacy an illusion -- for example, how much privacy did
      people have living in small towns before mass communications? 

See you there, perhaps!