That was one thing I liked about the last place I lived, there was a lot in
walking distance, from the hardware store, auto parts store if I needed to
fix the family car, grocery store, a convenience store though the prices
made me tend to walk triple the distance the other way to the grocery store.
Personally I think that convenience store was doing more drug business in
the back than store business in the front based on the dusty soda bottle I
bought there once and the place being shut down by the police. Now there's
nothing in walking distance at all. I do pay bills online, seldom bother to
check the mail unless I'm expecting something and then I scan it if my
sighted wife doesn't beat me to looking through it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 4:38 AM
Subject: Re: Accessible Radio
>I pay bills on line. Read my mail with a scanner, and ask the manager of
> the grocery store, "when would you like me to come so you can have a staff
> member shop with me. I bring a grocery list read it, and ask the shopper
> to
> tell me what the specials in the flyer are. Most things can be done much
> more easilly with a sighted wife, but I don't ask her to do what I can do
> with out her. I am limited to what I can drag home in a fold up cart, so
> that does shrink the grocery store trips. Some sighted help is needed and
> appreciated, but the power imballence in a blind sighted relationship is
> so
> huge, that I try to ballence it as I can. Part of this is probably my own
> personal craziness. GPS has really helped, because I can find myself if I
> get lost, so I do a lot more exploring.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 2:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Accessible Radio
>
>
>> I'm not just talking about reading books, how about reading mail, paying
>> bills, reading grocery flyers and I haven't figured out a way to go
>> grocery shopping without sighted help. I can tell you from experience,
>> life is much easier and fun if you have a sighted wife.
>> 73
>> Butch
>> WA0VJR
>> Node 3148
>> Wallace, ks.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 24 May
>> 2013, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>>
>>> Reading through your ears is an adjustment, but it can be done. Their
>>> is
>>> no
>>> way that you can read with your ears nearly as fast as many people do
>>> with
>>> their eyes. With all of the options from bookshare to Reading Alli, to
>>> BARD, to News Line, their is more available material than anybody can
>>> read
>>> in a lifetime, if that's all they do. It seems today that very few
>>> people
>>> get a book from a library or buy it, bring it home and scan it by hand.
>>> That was the most magical thing you could do with a computer, not so
>>> long
>>> ago. I remember the day I got my first book as a Father's day pressent.
>>> I
>>> could scan and read and keep it!!! It is still magic to turn invisible
>>> print in to understandable speech.
>>> True confession, how many of you like me hord books on your hard drives?
>>> I
>>> think its like people who lived through the depression hording stuff.
>>> They
>>> went with out and never want to do so again.
>>> On another topic, I am amazed at how many of us have shaken hands with
>>> high
>>> DC voltage and live to tell the tale.
>>> Mine was the plate caps on the 807's in the globe chief. Ten feet away
>>> from
>>> the radio table, felt like a sledge hammer.
>>>
>>>
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