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The best laid plans...
Jul. 18th, 2002 01:49 amI was running a bit late when I left to meet Lin today. I did get my bills paid on the way, but I forgot a few things I'd intended to bring for her.
Turned out that she'd forgotten to tell me she wasn't going to go to the munch tonight and she'd forgotten that she'd asked me to meet her at the commission this afternoon.
She remembered well after we were supposed to meet and tried to call me at home (I wasn't there :-). The her mobility instructor suggested calling the commision office. The receptionist told me Lin would be there in a few minutes.
It took rather longer than that as she missed the MAX and the bus. Once she was there she needed to talk to some people. Someone brought in an electric brailler for her to try. We had to wait for that (kind!) woman to run home and fetch it.
Lin discovered that a manual unit is actually easier for her. The electric "jolts" when the pressure on the keys is enough to trip the punch, and that sends a feeling like hitting your funnybone thru her fingers.
She wound up getting loaned a manual brailler, and had earlier in the day managed to convince the person in charge of her braille training that she was committed enough, so they are now going to push for getting her one she can keep.
The brailler was awkward, since it was a new unit, in its box. So I wound up volunteering to help her haul it home.
By this time it was after 4 pm.
I showed her a nearby sandwich shoppe I knew of and we had a late lunch before heading to her place.
When we got there, I tried the midi cable I'd gotten, but either it doesn't work with her sound card, or it needs drivers or I was doing it wrong. Her keyboard totally ignored the midi files we played on the computer.
I did discover that Creative sells a similar cable for the Sound Blaster cards for $20. That may be worth looking into.
I did a fair amount of talking with Kermit (Lin's husband) while Lin did up some stuff in braille.
Later I used the thermometer I'd intended to loan her to check one she had that she wasn't sure of.
I also helped her clear out the sink so she could get some stuff cleaned to cook a dinner for us.
I just got home a bit ago, and as soon as I post this and take care of a few other things, I'm crashing.
Turned out that she'd forgotten to tell me she wasn't going to go to the munch tonight and she'd forgotten that she'd asked me to meet her at the commission this afternoon.
She remembered well after we were supposed to meet and tried to call me at home (I wasn't there :-). The her mobility instructor suggested calling the commision office. The receptionist told me Lin would be there in a few minutes.
It took rather longer than that as she missed the MAX and the bus. Once she was there she needed to talk to some people. Someone brought in an electric brailler for her to try. We had to wait for that (kind!) woman to run home and fetch it.
Lin discovered that a manual unit is actually easier for her. The electric "jolts" when the pressure on the keys is enough to trip the punch, and that sends a feeling like hitting your funnybone thru her fingers.
She wound up getting loaned a manual brailler, and had earlier in the day managed to convince the person in charge of her braille training that she was committed enough, so they are now going to push for getting her one she can keep.
The brailler was awkward, since it was a new unit, in its box. So I wound up volunteering to help her haul it home.
By this time it was after 4 pm.
I showed her a nearby sandwich shoppe I knew of and we had a late lunch before heading to her place.
When we got there, I tried the midi cable I'd gotten, but either it doesn't work with her sound card, or it needs drivers or I was doing it wrong. Her keyboard totally ignored the midi files we played on the computer.
I did discover that Creative sells a similar cable for the Sound Blaster cards for $20. That may be worth looking into.
I did a fair amount of talking with Kermit (Lin's husband) while Lin did up some stuff in braille.
Later I used the thermometer I'd intended to loan her to check one she had that she wasn't sure of.
I also helped her clear out the sink so she could get some stuff cleaned to cook a dinner for us.
I just got home a bit ago, and as soon as I post this and take care of a few other things, I'm crashing.
