Moreover, I don't know *anyone* who doesn't depend on someone for something, whether blind or sighted. But Howard's right about the balance of power in such a dynamic. Whether intentional or not, it can be, and I observe, too often is, a bad situation with, as Howard says, an extreme imbalance of power. Doesn't have to be, but it can. Personally, sight is pretty low on the list of traits I'd be looking for in a life partner, but that's just me. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On May 25, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.
>>> 
>>>