Interesting Updates And Looking Forward

In the last blog entry that I'd written Saturday I forgot to mention that on Friday night I asked my friend whose keyboard I'd recently been playing with if he still had the song that I'd started creating a week ago. Fortunately he still had that particular song. So on Friday night he and I worked on that particular song with one another which made me happy. In the last blog entry that I'd written Saturday I also forgot to mention that when a blind friend of mine and I'd gone with one another to a sushi restaurant earlier in the week, as soon as the two of us had entered the restaurant a waitress at said restaurant said to us in a tone of voice that suggested we did not know where we were "This is a Japanese restaurant that you are in." My friend and I were both flabbergasted at that particular comment she'd made because being blind does not mean that we don't fucking know where we are. As if that particular comment our waitress had made was not awful enough though, when my fRiend and I were walking out of the restaurant with one another the lady said "Do you want me to help you to your car?" My blind friend said "Yeah sure. I parked right outside." The waitress did not get the joke my friend had made. I thought his joke was hilarious! Shortly after I'd written my last blog entry Saturday I received an FB message from AIRA's CEO. He and I exchanged a few messages with one another and I gave him my contact information. A little while later I texted my landlord to ask him whether the text I'd sent him the night before had gone through. A few minutes later he texted me back asking me whether I'd signed a physical copy of mine and his rental agreement with one another or whether I'd only signed mine and his rental agreement with one another through email. So I immediately responded to his text message telling him that I think I'd only signed a rental agreement through email. A little while later I received a text message from my landlord asking me if I'd come by the house to sign an actual print copy of my rental agreement with him. So a little while later I texted my landlord to say that I'd come by the house the next morning. However a little while after I'd sent that particular text to my landlord I decided to go to his house today. The Uber driver that I'd had on the way to my landlord's house was not that interesting. I honestly wasn't in a mood to have much of a conversation with anyone then so I didn't. Once I'd arrived at my landlord's house though I was glad I'd gone there. He and I both signed copies of the rental agreement that I have with him which was great. That way I wouldn't have to worry about when I could go to his house before this coming Tuesday morning's appointment with a local DMV. A little while after I'd gotten back to a friend's apartment I deleted the remote app off of my phone since my friend had recently found his Apple TV remote. Sunday afternoon I watched the latest episode of Once Upon A Time on the Hulu app that's on my phone. I wish that Once Upon A Time was audio described because there are a lot of visual things that happen in the show that I think I miss out on. The way that I know there are a lot of visual things that go on in Once Upon A Time is because sometimes when there are pauses in the show's dialogue I can hear people moving around and making gestures that indicate to me that those people are doing something. So if Once Upon A Time was audio described then the narrator would inform me of the visual things that happen in said show. A little while after I'd watched Once Upon A Time a friend of mine and I talked with one another about my blog and how far I really want to go with my blog. Said friend told me about EasyBib (a website that I can go to that will help me correctly cite YouTube videos or other websites that I may use in interviews I do with people). Because aside from interviewing AIRA’s CEO for my blog I may have so much fun with that particular interview that I occasionally want to interview other people for my blog. The reason that particular thing came up in my discussion with said friend was because I was telling said friend that I want my blog to be legitimate in every way. So that's why he told me about EasyBib. Shortly after that particular friend and I'd finished discussing EasyBib with one another, the same friend then told me about Huboodle (a new app that has games that people can play on his or her iPhone). Because my friend had recently discovered that particular app for himself. And even when I looked at the “about” section of Huboodle for myself I discovered that said app is brand-new. Like, the current version of that particular app is only the third version of said app. So in some ways it makes sense that Huboodle is so buggy. When I got up yesterday morning I checked my email. It turned out that I'd received an email from someone in TSBVI's records department. In the email that the person from TSBVI's records department had sent me he informed me that my high school transcripts from that particular school would be mailed out to me today. Shortly after I'd read that particular email from someone in TSBVI's records department I started doing my research for my upcoming interview with AIRA's CEO. I watched some YouTube videos then took notes on each YouTube video that I'd watched. That way I wouldn't have to go back to each YouTube video at a later time and try to remember what things I wanted to make note of. After I'd worked on that particular project for a while I replied to the email that the post office headquarters had sent me. In the reply email I’d sent to the post office headquarters I asked that particular business whether my address had successfully been changed with said business. Several hours after I'd emailed the post office headquarters I looked over the questions that I’d come up with for AIRA’s CEO to answer. I then emailed said questions to him. Shortly after I’d emailed the questions to AIRA’s CEO I went through some of the mail that I’d received. It turned out that I’d received things in Braille from this state and/or my insurance company. One of the things that I’d received in the mail from my insurance company/the state was a Braille version of the print application that said companies have been trying to get me to fill out for a while now. Fortunately though the state/my insurance company also sent me Braille versions of a couple different insurance company’s booklets that I’m required to choose as a secondary insurance plan. It was pretty easy for me to make a choice about which insurance company I want to go with for my secondary insurance...because I chose the insurance company that seems to offer the most health coverage. A little while after I’d chosen a secondary insurance company for myself the friend who’d been working on my song with me, worked on my song with me some more. The two of us were killing time with one another because I’d had it in my head that we could register for college classes at midnight the next day. Throughout the day today my Mac has been doing this thing where my cursor constantly jumps from one place to another place. This particular thing has become so problematic that it’s damn near impossible for me to use my Mac right now. So I’m typing this up using my BlueTooth keyboard that’s connected to my iPhone. That being said, I also created a Facebook (FB) status update asking any of my FB friends if they are experiencing the same problem with their Macs as I’m currently experiencing with my Mac. A little while after I’d written an FB status update concerning the issue I’m having with my Mac I tweeted Huboodle. In the tweet I’d sent that particular app I made the app’s people aware of the fact that I’m unable to get past an ad when I try to play any of the games that said app has available on it. Shortly after I’d sent that particular tweet to Huboodle I logged onto my school account thinking I’d be able to register for the summer class that I want to take at the college. However upon logging into my school’s website I read that priority registration was actually not until the following day. After I’d made that particular discovery I went to sleep. This morning I got up early so that I could go to the DMV to get my state ID card. When I’d scheduled my Uber to pick me up at around 7:40, it worked out well. Interestingly though when I was getting into the Uber driver’s car, said Uber driver told me that she was the daughter of the lady who’d driven me to the DMV last Friday. Wow!! LOL. That particular Uber driver was even nice enough to walk me all the way into the DMV...and show me where the line was. Fortunately there were only a few people who were in line in front of me. Then once I’d gotten up to the counter to speak with a DMV employee it turned out that the lady who’d helped me last Friday as well helped me again today. I told her that I’d come back because last time I’d been at the DMV I was told that I needed to have my rental agreement signed by my landlord and I. She understood and once she’d created a ticket for me she showed me to a seat. Not too long after I’d sat down I heard someone say that the DMV’s system had gone down. Just my luck, right? So I sat there for a bit, chatting with a man who was also waiting to be seen by a DMV employee. When the lady who’d helped me came to show me to a window, the DMV employee at that particular window told her that the DMV’s system was down. So no one could process anything. However the DMV employee who was at the window I’d been lead to made an appointment card for me to go to the DMV the following day. The DMV employee then walked me outside to a bench so that I could sit down. It was really windy outside so I zipped up my jacket. I then called an Uber driver to come pick me up from the DMV. However shortly after I’d called the Uber to pick me up the lady who’d helped me at the DMV the previous few times I’d gone there came outside to let me know that the DMV’s system was up again. She asked if I wanted to go inside and get things taken care of and of course I said I did. So I asked her to wait a second while I canceled my ride. Once she’d taken me inside of the DMV building she was able to get someone to help me right away. Fortunately the ID card application I’d filled out last Friday was still in the DMV’s system which only made things slightly easier. Because the lady who was going to process my ID card application still had to scann all of my information (my birth certificate, my legal name change order, my proof of residency and my Social Security card) into the system. Then the lady had to type whatever parts of my ID card application were left, into the system as well. Once the lady had completely entered me into the DMV’s system she took my money for my upcoming ID card. After she’d taken my money for my ID card she tried to do my fingerprint right at her window. However things were not so easy because for some reason her fingerprinting machine was not working correctly. Interestingly though when she’d asked for my right thumb as the thumb that would be fingerprinted I asked her if we could change her machine to take a fingerprint of my left thumb. She said that that shouldn’t be a problem but she ended up having someone show me which part of the DMV to go to, to get fingerprinted and to have my picture taken. Since I’m left-handed I asked the DMV employee doing my fingerprint if he’d allow me to do a left-handed thumb print. He said that would be fine. So once I’d had my fingerprint taken, the same DMV employee took my picture. The particular DMV employee who’d taken my picture and fingerprint then told me that I’d receive my state ID card within two to three weeks. He then had another DMV employee show me outside. I’m hoping that my state ID card will arrive to me before I have to go to the financial aid department at school to give said department my high school transcripts. That way I don’t have to use my Texas ID...and yes I really am that excited to get rid of the last thing that legally binds me to Texas. So anyway once the DMV had helped me to a bench outside of the DMV building I called Uber. When the Uber driver was a minute away I called her to make sure she’d arrived at the right place. When I was on the phone with that particular Uber driver she’d said that she was in the DMV’s parking lot. I then told her that I was blind and that it would be helpful for me if she’d come directly to me. Fortunately she didn’t have a problem coming directly to me. Once she’d dropped me off at my destination I used the Uber app to ask said business for a refund for the trip that I had to cancel earlier in the day. That too was not a problem. Shortly after Uber had credited some money onto my account I called my insurance company. During the conversation I had with my insurance company employee I told her which insurance company I want to have as my secondary insurance plan. She informed me that my primary insurance company had already chosen a plan for me but that I could call a different phone number to change secondary insurance plans. So once I’d gotten off the phone with the lady from my primary insurance company I called another phone number to tell someone from that particular health plan that I wanted to choose said insurance plan as my secondary insurance. The person I spoke with at that number told me that he’d see if he could expedite the process so that I wouldn’t have to wait until June to be an active member of said insurance company. Fortunately he was able to expedite the process for me. During his and my conversation with one another he put a state worker on the phone and she was actually the one who’d expedited the process for my secondary insurance to kick in the following day. I even made sure that the state worker that was on the line with the other worker and I, enrolled me into the dental insurance plan as well as the medical insurance plan. Once I was enrolled in the secondary insurance plan that I wanted to be enrolled in I was informed by both the state worker as well as the worker from my secondary insurance company that I’d need to call my secondary insurance company the following day to let someone from that company know that the process had been expedited for me to become a member of said insurance company. Because apparently if I don’t call the following day and let that particular insurance company know that I’ve enrolled as a member then I’d have to wait over a month for the secondary insurance plan to become active. No thanks!! That’s the last thing I’d want to do. Shortly after I’d gotten off the phone with a state worker I logged into my school account again because I wanted to double-check that today was not the day to register for classes as I’d originally thought it would be. And fortunately when I logged into my school account I discovered that the following day was when people who receive priority registration could register for his or her classes at the college I’m going to be attending. Shortly after I’d double-checked what I’d read the previous night I called my Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) to update my address with the agency he works for. Unfortunately though I had to leave him a voicemail. Shortly after I’d left my VRC a voicemail I called the CVS Pharmacy I’m currently with to update my address. Unfortunately though the lady I spoke with at that particular pharmacy told me that she couldn’t put a PO box as a person’s address. So I went ahead and gave CVS Pharmacy my physical address for now. Then after I’d gotten off the phone with that lady I Googled CVS Pharmacy with the zip code of my physical address. Once I’d located a CVS Pharmacy that’s near my place I called that particular CVS Pharmacy location. The lady I spoke with at that particular CVS location informed me that I’d need to come into that particular CVS Pharmacy location to update my insurance information with said store. She also informed me that I’d need to get a doctor in this state ASAP so I can continue to have my prescriptions refilled. Shortly after I’d gotten off the phone with the lady at the CVS Pharmacy I’d just changed to, my VRC called me. During his and my conversation with one another I gave him both of my current addresses. Shortly after he and I’d gotten off the phone with one another I received a phone call from the agency that’s supposed to do my Assistive Technology (AT) evaluation. During my conversation with a lady who works at that particular business the lady asked if I could go to said business on the morning or afternoon of the 10th. I told her that afternoon would probably be best so that my VRC could figure out transportation arrangements for me. I then asked the lady from said business if she’d email me the appointment information as well as the business’s address. After I’d gotten off the phone with that particular lady I called my VRC to give him the latest update. However I ended up talking to my VRC’s assistant...so even though I don’t like giving people messages I gave her the latest update to give to him.