What it is like to live on ODSP: December 18, 2005
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Greetings from Agua Caliente county park in the middle of the Anza Borrego Desert about 80 miles due east of San Diego.I have only a few minutes, so this will be a brief blog. Best of all, it has a warm mineral springs housed indoors feeding a large elliptical Jacuzzi type pool about 30 feet long and 20 feet wide.
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Took Friday & Saturday off from training, partly in preparation for today’s longer ride. When the wind hits your face on the more open spots, like on the bridges to and from Lauttasaari, it really makes you feel ALIVE (it also makes you wonder why on earth your ancestors decided to settle on these shores (maybe it was because they didn’t have bicycles!)).Start ride at 12:05 p.m.Cycle: Crescent LTC X8.(Post-ride odometer reading 880 km.)Route: 4 x (Laajalahti - Tapiola - Keilaniemi - Lauttasaari - Salmisaari - Hietalahti - Taivallahti - Meilahti - Munkkiniemi (Munkkiniemenranta) - Tarvaspää - Laajalahti).I’m riding the longer rides in this ‘multiple-lap’ fashion to avoid being too far from home if a tire goes flat. my present theory is that the chain touches the chainguard (or something) as the the twisted chainring deforms when torque is applied (this has happened on the Crescent 304).–What a crappy bicycle the LTC X8 is!Had also plenty of probs today with the Shimano Nexus hub when downshifting.
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(Back on the chain gang)DBreakfastWhole wheat bagel w/cream cheeseDinnerGyroVanilla milkshakeMiscPopcornSome chocolate, some twizzlers :(MBreakfastHalf of an appleWater, water, waterLunchA whole wheat rollWater, water, waterDinnerTurkey with cranberry sauceMash potatoesM - get well soon.
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Tuesday night, I had a rehersal for the Christmas play our youth group is putting on - its a funny meditation on the meaning of Christmas, and yet it still has a strong spiritual component as well. I had to race from that to our young adult group, where we continued our discussion on popular images of faith in the media and in pop culture, where I was leading our discussion on the relevance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to this issue.
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Even worse there are some medications I need but can’t get because they are not on my ODSP drug card.My boyfriend Steve is on ODSP too. What is ODSP you ask.Ontario Disability Support Program, a pension given to people with disabilities inOntario from the provincial Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services.I waited 11 years for an increase on my ODSP pension and this year I got a 3% increase,which gives me 7 dollars extra on my cheque. I have Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) and I don’t need any more stress in my life but I had to fight witht the ODSP workers for years and I have ODSP tribunals and a court case I started with ODSP and I had protests and spoke out at provincial hearing on social assistance. I told Seville Clark, the second in command at ODSP, to give me all that I wanted and needed that I could get at ODSPand I got it.I leave the ODSP Mananger a phone call and he calls me right away and wants to know what I need or want at ODSP.
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Greetings from Agua Caliente county park in the middle of the Anza Borrego Desert about 80 miles due east of San Diego.I have only a few minutes, so this will be a brief blog. Best of all, it has a warm mineral springs housed indoors feeding a large elliptical Jacuzzi type pool about 30 feet long and 20 feet wide.
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Took Friday & Saturday off from training, partly in preparation for today’s longer ride. When the wind hits your face on the more open spots, like on the bridges to and from Lauttasaari, it really makes you feel ALIVE (it also makes you wonder why on earth your ancestors decided to settle on these shores (maybe it was because they didn’t have bicycles!)).Start ride at 12:05 p.m.Cycle: Crescent LTC X8.(Post-ride odometer reading 880 km.)Route: 4 x (Laajalahti - Tapiola - Keilaniemi - Lauttasaari - Salmisaari - Hietalahti - Taivallahti - Meilahti - Munkkiniemi (Munkkiniemenranta) - Tarvaspää - Laajalahti).I’m riding the longer rides in this ‘multiple-lap’ fashion to avoid being too far from home if a tire goes flat. my present theory is that the chain touches the chainguard (or something) as the the twisted chainring deforms when torque is applied (this has happened on the Crescent 304).–What a crappy bicycle the LTC X8 is!Had also plenty of probs today with the Shimano Nexus hub when downshifting.
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(Back on the chain gang)DBreakfastWhole wheat bagel w/cream cheeseDinnerGyroVanilla milkshakeMiscPopcornSome chocolate, some twizzlers :(MBreakfastHalf of an appleWater, water, waterLunchA whole wheat rollWater, water, waterDinnerTurkey with cranberry sauceMash potatoesM - get well soon.
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Tuesday night, I had a rehersal for the Christmas play our youth group is putting on - its a funny meditation on the meaning of Christmas, and yet it still has a strong spiritual component as well. I had to race from that to our young adult group, where we continued our discussion on popular images of faith in the media and in pop culture, where I was leading our discussion on the relevance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer to this issue.
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Even worse there are some medications I need but can’t get because they are not on my ODSP drug card.My boyfriend Steve is on ODSP too. What is ODSP you ask.Ontario Disability Support Program, a pension given to people with disabilities inOntario from the provincial Ontario Ministry of Community and Social Services.I waited 11 years for an increase on my ODSP pension and this year I got a 3% increase,which gives me 7 dollars extra on my cheque. I have Post Trauma Stress Disorder (PTSD) and I don’t need any more stress in my life but I had to fight witht the ODSP workers for years and I have ODSP tribunals and a court case I started with ODSP and I had protests and spoke out at provincial hearing on social assistance. I told Seville Clark, the second in command at ODSP, to give me all that I wanted and needed that I could get at ODSPand I got it.I leave the ODSP Mananger a phone call and he calls me right away and wants to know what I need or want at ODSP.
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