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A Baseball Post
21 July 2010Being stuck at home most of the time now, I watch a lot more TV than I used to. Thanks to my parents I have this nice big screen TV to watch and one thing that provides me a little sanity is the Atlanta Braves. I haven’t missed many games this year. If you aren’t [...]
A Little More Boredom Please
19 July 2010For the past month or so I’ve had off again, on again pain in my right hip. At times it’s been pretty severe and I wasn’t sure whether I actually had a hip problem or a sciatic nerve problem. I wasn’t too worried about it because it had pretty much gone away when it came [...]
New Ideas
9 July 2010I wrote, a few posts back, about my experience with the lady from the South Carolina Commission for the Blind and how she basically accused me of being in denial. As time passes and I’m forced to face my limitations I find that she may have been right. I’ve been convinced that I could still [...]
A Blind Man’s Car
2 July 2010One of the hardest adjustments I’ve had to make is the loss of my independence because I can no longer drive. I haven’t given up my license yet because of my hope that something might change but that’s a pretty slim hope at best. Then there’s my car. I have an SUV that I used [...]
Assumptions and Conclusions
28 June 2010While I’ve had a few down days. I think I’ve generally handled this whole blindness thing pretty well. Others seem to think so too, if their reactions to my reaction are any indication. I seem to get one of two responses. The more prevalent response is amazement at how well I’m dealing with it. Some [...]
Blogging Blind
23 June 2010Blogging while legally blind presents some interesting challenges. Generally speaking it is relatively easy to control the size of things in a browser. In WordPress, however, when you make things too big on the post editing page, the text area goes under the sidebar controls, making it impossible to see some of what you’re writing. [...]
Typos and Other Vision Related Issues
22 June 2010Typos are an ever present reality for anyone who writes. But when your ability to proofread is compromised by a visual disability the problem can become unmanageable. For example, the squiggly lines under misspelled words are virtually invisible to me so I don’t have the visual clue others have. My best resource is to have [...]
Taking Care of Business
21 June 2010One of my big concerns brought on my the fact that I can no longer provide IT services to my clients is, who will take care of my clients? Most all of them have become my friends. They are like family to me. I’m trying to work out something with another local IT company. They [...]
Update
21 June 2010It seems like I can’t manage to be consistent with this blog no matter what I do. But here’s another update. We’ve filed the Social Security Disability applicaiton and need to submit the documentation but we’re stuck because our accountant still has not got our taxes completed and he’s on vacation now. On top of [...]
More Struggles
27 May 2010This has not been a good month. Readers of this blog are aware of the vision problems I’ve had. Now I’ve had a second stroke of the left optic nerve that has left me legally blind. I am not completely blind. I can walk around the house, work in the garden or cook a meal. [...]
