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.
>>
>>