The Blog Subjects

There are many people who sit to write thoughts on their blogs, that are of an informative nature. Sometimes I really am quite surprised by the degree of knowledge and material that some people place in their blogs. These are, after all, what we would term layman and nevertheless they seem to have a broad amount of information, memories, detail -- that's it! Detail – that they include in their blogs. There are times I think I would like to write that way -- but it escapes me.

The notion of simply getting on a philosophizing, especially about trivia, is not always very fulfilling. After all, yes that one does have an ability to articulate one's thoughts. And this leads to the free flow of the blog where one is basically using the patient's software and therefore one can say whatever one wants. (Notice the "one" comments over and over.)

I would like comment on the various cultural and ethnic scenes. I would like to speak about some of the subcultures in our country and how they are faring. At the same time, I really don't want to do an extensive amount of research to have to find material. Either it comes naturally, or I'm not sure I want to write it. And this, is my dilemma. Because of simply spouting from the top of one's head doesn't necessarily give good reading material. Not only good reading material for the reader but even for the author. I'm not motivated to write things that do not stimulate. I guess in essence I would rather sit here and read the writings of others than doing massive research to try to come up with something to write about.

So yes. I don't necessarily find myself able to address some of the huge broader stroked subjects that some of my favorite blogs address, be they politics, religion, social sciences, international affairs, and the like. I simply ramble on matters that I think have some minor significance to me, or are bugging me at the moment, and make that my blog.

And then, in the middle of it all, I get tired. Simply physically tired. At times like that I simply want to wrap up and just post it. And actually, that's exactly what I'm going to do right now. Have a nice day.

Therapist?

Does she need therapy?

That is a very disturbing and painful question. Because there are times when things go very normally and easily, and frustration simply a natural part of life. And -- there are some very obvious times -- when people have slithered off the edge and the need for a therapist cannot be more urgent.

However, there are times when one exists in the gray zone. And it is a very fast gray zone. She's upset, she's depressed, she wants to come home -- and flies home from thousands of miles away. Is it just normal homesickness that should be disregarded? Give her time to chill out, feel the comfort of being home and that's all she really needs? Or are we dealing with another "edge experience," an off to hauntingly remember an earlier time, and the need to scamper off very quickly and find therapy -- and not just therapy, but the RIGHT therapist.

And the truth is, how would we know? Are we then truly professionals in the field of psychological health? Are we not simply relatives who are deeply concerned, but still, after all these years, are still only amateurs. And on the contrary, doesn't our concern and relationship make us really very subjective, and unable perhaps to see past the wall of our own subjectivity.

So we are going to make the appointment. But with whom? Just "anyone" that happens accept our insurance? Isn't that ridiculous?

This is actually a very disturbing post in a sense, because I can't really express all that is in my mind now.

The Spoken Printed Word

There is a completely different picture that one sees when you try to understand the holiday season in terms of frustration and misery. Yes I think lots of people are frustrated and miserable. But I don't think that really has anything to do with the holiday season. I think the holiday season is a unit of time that has been much maligned because other people look for different things and never find exactly what they want.

The ability of dictation software to rapidfire to transcribe your text is a gift and really something to be very proud of. The most important companies that have worked in this area have been frustrated for a while because of the fact they couldn't produce a product with a very high percentage rate of accuracy. Then came along various companies that eventually sold their product to Nuance.

Nuance continued to upgrade and perfect the product until they now claim that their accuracy rate is close to 98%. Well, I think anything in the 90 percentile should be applauded because, after all, if you can dictate a hundred words and then only need to correct 10 of them that's not too shabby. But nevertheless, 10 words being misspelled can prove a problem and dilemma for someone was using dictation. So then the goal was to up the odds even less than that. 98% accuracy would mean that for every hundred words, 98 of them are accurate, and only two need to be corrected. If that be the case, give or take an error margin of another three -- 95% -- then that is an astonishingly great rate.

I could never manage to type sufficiently if I did not have dictation software. Now of course, others do just fine typing with the two hands. But not me, that's not my skill and it would deter my usage greatly -- to my detriment. Whereas now, thanks to the ability of the dictation software, I can whip out a page full of material or 10 pages in the great speed.

There are numerous occasions when we need to create verbiage to fill necessary quotas of space. And sometimes simply, to allow for the flowery development of speech articulation to conjure up imagery and paint pictures with our words. The necessity for the free flow of words onto the screen especially, and then onto the printed sheet if necessary -- is of the greatest gifts of the software generation when it is produced by dictation.

Think about it.