On 8/3/07 7:29 PM, in article 46B3E494.4060506@hotmail.com, "Jeff"
<kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com> wrote:

<snip for brevity

The name of the book is "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"
by Mark Haddon. An interesting read.

Martha T2 Canada

<snip>

We believe it's a sensory thing with them.  There are even foods they used
to eat that they no longer will, and there's never a logical explanation.  I
don't think it's always taste that bothers them, it's more along the line of
texture.  I remember being totally puzzled a few years ago when I ordered a
pepperoni pizza for Dylan, who loves pepperoni, but he refused to eat it,
telling me that "the pepperonis are broken."  I had no clue what he meant,
but my wife figured it out.  She realized that the restaurant had sliced the
pizza such that there were no whole pepperonis, they were all cut somewhere.
So, learning from that, I had to start making the strange request when
ordering to please avoid cutting as many pepperoni's as possible, and would
explain why.  Most places had no problem with complying.   He doesn't seem
to have that problem anymore, though.

You may be on to something there.  I don't take any vitamins or mineral
supplements.  Whatever was making me crave food so badly last night is
apparently gone for now.  I haven't eaten since my two bowls of Special K at
1:00 AM this morning (I was bad AGAIN), and when I checked my BG at around
9:00 this morning it was 137, sigh.  I'll be seeing my doctor again in about
a month, I think.  She was going to check my B12 levels, as well as thyroid
function and testosterone levels (feeling very tired a lot).

I've read that the divorce rate for parents of multiples is twice that of
parents of singletons, and also very recently at a "parents of children with
special needs" conference, they stated the statistic that parents of special
needs kids had a divorce rate of over 80%.  Combining those two statistics,
if my wife and I can survive that, I think we can survive just about
anything.  I may have already posted about this so apologies ahead of time.

A brain dump is a method of cheating on a certification exam.  The Microsoft
(and other) certification exams are proxied exams and it is illegal to share
the information you see in the exam after taking it, you accept an agreement
to this extent before you take the exams.  Unscrupulous people go to extreme
measures to record the contents of the exams, and then sell them to equally
unscrupulous people who want to cheat their way into certifications.
Believe it or not, the problem is rampant and seriously devalues the
certification process.  Most of these cheaters not only cheat, but even want
them for free.  That's where we come in.  Some of us have even worked
undercover to expose testing centers that use something called "gunmen" to
even take the exams FOR YOU.  Many have been shut down, and most are
overseas.  An unbelievable amount of people request brain dumps in the
newsgroups every day.  Sometimes we bait them to e-mail Microsoft themselves
to request them.  The hotline e-mail is tctips@microsoft.com and we'll tell
potential cheaters that tctips is Thomas C. Tips and he has the best brain
dumps for free!  Simply provide your MCP number (given when you pass any MS
exam) and he'll provide you with TONS of FREE BRAINDUMPS!  You'd be
surprised how many fall for it.  Some of us are now legends among the
tranining and certification people at Microsoft for steering cheaters and
would-be cheaters directly to them.

For anyone else who is curious, another spin-off group from the MCNGP (this
one a bit more serious) is called certguard and goes into great detail about
braindumps and "gunmen."

http://www.certguard.com?wp_ml=0