Linda, he can sell JFW but he will need to transfer the license. earlier, Linda, wrote:
>Dan, you wrote such a nice letter of >encouragement, saying that this newly blind >neighbor would really benefit from this list. I >called him and let him hear the message over the >phone. I didn't get much of a reaction though. > >Some of you may remember that I was working with >him on the computer. He said that he wanted to >find CD's by Led Zeppelin. Even though I would >rather steer clear of that singer, I didn't >express that to him. I was able to find him on >Amazon. 116 CD's. Before I found them I called >my neighbor to see if we were going to get >together the next evening. Actually, my >motivation for calling, which I didn't express, >was that I wanted to go to the beauty shop to >get my hair cut. He sounded really enthusiastic >about my coming over. Well, then I had a friend >teach me how to search on Amazon, and I took >careful notes, as I always have to do, because I >would never remember all that right away. I was >so excited to find what this blind guy, as he >calls himself, was looking for, that I called >him to tell him. He asked me if they were in >chronological order and I said I didn't check >that. I told him he would need to take notes as >I myself had to, because I couldn't remember all >the steps, and he might need somethng to refer >to. I had left a tape recorder with him the >first time I came to teach him and put some >notes on it. That really seemed to turn him off >I think. He knows nothing about the computer, >but he wants to get on web sites. He can hardly >type. He tries to get on web sites and can't >remember the steps. I think web sites are >created differently sometimes. He didn't want to >start with the really easy ones because he >wasn't interested in them. But he said to me, "I >need to learn the basics." I asked him what >basics he meant, and he said he didn't know. He >said we couldn't understand each other and he >thought it best if we stopped working together. >I asked him if he had anyone else to work with >and he said no, but that it was his problem. I >think he's going to give his computer to his >son. I don't know what he will do with his jaws >8 screen reader. I wonder if he can do something >with it to make the purchase of it worthwhile. >It seems to me that he really ought to learn to >type. Ican x®(L-ÿÿÿÿD+b remember when I learned >to type when I was in fourth grade. Finally I >was able to write letters to my aunt in Arizona, >and type my homework, and communicate in print >with those who don't know braille. I imagine >kids learn to type earlier than fourth grade now. > >I told him there were chat rooms he could get >into, and at the time I told him he sounded sort >of interested. But he said he just doesn't like to sit around. > >Anyway, I guess I am done with him unless he >calls me. The good thing that came out of this >for me was that I got motivated to really begin >learning things I should have learned long ago, >and don't intend to stop. It really does please >me when I learn some new shortcut or new way of doing something. > >He said he would just call a record company he >knows of to find out about the CD's. > >He seems to get interested in things, and enthusiastic, then drops them. > >He got a guide dog that I don't think I would >ever enjoy using, because he lets it pull him >into the grass to sniff any time it pleases. >After all,he says, a dog is a dog and needs to do those things. > >He wanted me to teach him braille. He will never >be able to read the regular size braille dots, >so we got these round circles where you pull of >the little paper on the bottom and stick them on >a page. We got a little notebook with index-like >cards, bound together, and I put one letter on >each page with those big dots. I suggested he >have someone write the print letter on each >braille page, the letter a being the first page >in the book, so that should be no problem. I >don't think he ever studied them. Maybe he sees no need of that anymore. > >I have never run into this kind of thing before. >I guess I haven't had much experience working >with newly blind people, and I'm not a professional teacher. > >I think it would do him good to go to rehab for a while. > >He has a talking blood sugar reader but still lets his wife take it for him. > >He's not a sickly person yet. He wants to >exercise, likes to have fun, likes to help >people with their handyman questions. I just don't understand. > >Why am I writing this? I don't know. >Linda > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 >- Release Date: 7/10/2007 5:44 PM John ---------- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/894 - Release Date: 7/10/2007 5:44 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
