If you don’t leave at least one comment a week,
I’m going to send jim to get you.

You don’t want Jim to come.

He’s dangerous.

Jim is one of those bad men you were told of when you were young.
You know. Young????????? That time when cars, electricity and the wheel had yet to be invented?
Yeah. way back then.

Weeeeeee! strong coffee is really good.

And before any of you wonder if I’ve completely lost my mind,

Yes…. Yes I have…

I’m standing there, just casually making a coffee.
It was actually the second coffee I’d made today but I was too busy this morning and I didn’t get time to drink the first one before it got stone cold!

So… It’s half three, I’m in work, making a coffee when someone comes in. We talk casually for a few minutes. During a gap in the conversation, while I’m poring from the kettle I notice he moves around to my right. Probably to get a better look to see how I’m doing it.

I know he wants to ask how do I know when I’ve pored enough but he doesn’t. Instead, he waits until I put the kettle down and after a second, he resumes his side of the conversation.

It’s kind of funny.
Of course, I don’t mind anyone asking, but you know, some days, I just want to make a coffee without someone asking questions that I’ve answered a million times in the past. So…. Thanks. I appreciate it.

I know. I’m a terrible representative of people who are blind aren’t I?

Screw it.
I don’t care.

Ask if you want. Seriously, I don’t mind. But I’ll be just dandy if you decide to leave me too it.

I know. I’m a grumpy old fart aren’t I?
Ha!

Hay. see that? it’s twenty five past 4! that means I’ve 35 minutes left before I can leave this place.

What are you doing at 5? coming for a pint?
I asked a friend earlier but he sounded very worse for ware. OH, and then, as well as him having a hang over, his daughter woke him up at half 6…
All I can honestly say to that it.

Wait for it……….
It’s nearly there.

HA!!!!!!!! ———— HA!!!!!!!!!!

Someone asked me a Braille related question this morning.

It was hard to answer fully in Twitter so I decided to use the blog instead.

Each letter in Braille is six cells. A is one dot or cell, b is two dots, c is two different dots, d is three dots. I’ll explain this in the table below.

You can see from the above table that dots 1, 2 and 3 are on the left and dots 4, 5 and 6 are on the right.

The letter d for example is made from dots 1, 4 and five as shown below:

The _ was used to show a cell that no dot has been punched through.

The space in Braille is simply a blank spot.

Here you see that dots have been punched through all six cells. The space has had no dots punched through.

Yesterday morning, the alarm went off at 6AM as usual.
I sprung out of bed, lept down the stairs with thought’s of grabbing a nice coffee, having a decent shower and making the early train to work. I was going to have a nice relaxed morning while also getting into work early and catching up on a few things. The day was going to go well.

I got to the kitchen, grabbbed a cup and spoon, put the coffee in, boiled the kettle but then things took a turn for the worst.

I stood there, with both hands on the counter listening to the kettle come to the boil.

The click notified me that it was ready but my brain just couldn’t wake up enough to initialize it’s self and remember that Water must now go in the cup.

It was the weirdist feeling ever.

I spent what seemed like ages, just standing there trying to remember how to make a coffee.

Sleep deprevation really doesn’t do me any good.

I’m glad I’m finishing this back log of work. It’s starting to effect my…….. What was I writing about again?

The phone keeps ringing.

ring ring.
ring ring.
Ring Ring.

But it’s not you?

The phone shows:
You have
6 missed calls and
4 new messages.

But none are from you?

How can a phone that’s so busy not get the one call I’m despritly waiting for?

It’s stupid I know. but every time I get a call or see that I’ve missed one, I hope. Just for a second before kicking my self back to reality.

I hate this.

Without a guide dog to make mobility so much easier, i’m using the cain and the KSonar.

Problem is, it’s actually a little more complicated and a little harder.

So, while walking with someone, it’s getting too easy to just avail of their assistance.

That’s not like at all. No matter who I’m with, I rather walking independently. I.e, without sighted guide.

I’ve been slipping lately and this has to stop.

With the last day of June, I am saying good by to this month and to this onset of lazyness.

Next month I’m going to Bermingham. It will be the first time in a very long time I’ve done a particularly hard journey in terms of mobility and accessibility without the dog. During no stage of this trip will I even consider taking sighted assistance. I’ll follow someone, if I@m in an area that I don’t know but I will not grab their elbo.

For the non-blind readers of the sight, Blind people use a technique called sighted guide when being guided by someone who can see. It basically involves holding the persons elbo. With this technique, the blind person can feel when the sighted person moves left or right or when he or she goes up or down a step etc.

So. That’s it.
I will no longer be lazy.
I will reaffirm my confedance while using the cain.
I will beet people over the head who don’t get out of my way.