[vicsireland] Re: braille labels etc.
- From: "maria" <maria.pileidi@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "vics" <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:33:52 +0100
Hi Gerry.
First of all please accept my sincere apologies for long delay in responding.
I haven't been feeling the best for the last few days, but I'm feeling better
thank God and now I'm catching up with my messages.
Gerry, thank you very much for all your tips. I use brail on paper for my DVDs.
I just put the hole sheet into the Perkins and then ask my sighted friends to
cut out the labels after I write them out. It WORKS FINE FOR THE DVDs BUT I'll
be sure to check out easons and other stationary supplies stores for the
avery labels you mentioned. and the architect plastic sheets might come in
handy for when I need to take my online tesco receipt to my local tesco store
when they forget to include something important on my list. I can't count the
number of times I put the receipt into my bag and it rained and the receipt
would get wet, and by the time I'd get to tesco, it would be destroyed.
I also know what you mean about reading at school after lights out Gerry. We
ourselves would be allowed to read for a bit after lights out and then you had
to put the book down and go to sleep. If you wanted to continue reading, you
had to hide the book under the covers. We all did that after we developed a
taste for reading.
I also had no problems reading close Braille on both sides of the page because
both our school books and our library books in Russia were and still are
printed on both sides of the page and the lines are very close together. I
suppose this is their way of economizing paper.
As for spelling, I find that I use the text abbreviations when I'm texting, but
when I'm emailing, writing in forums or doing my word processing, I always
tend to write properly, although I admit I do prefer reading books either in
audio format, or in either word, plain text or html formats, in which case, my
jaws or NVDA reads the books out.
I'm also seriously thinking of purchasing a sansa clip for Christmas. I'm sorry
for my lack of response about that one back then. It's just that I've had a lot
of issues one on top of an other: I.e. my health, my family problems and my
mother's health. Now thank God those issues seem to be resolving themselves.
Most of them anyway. And my friend gave me back my cassette Dictaphone, because
her English classes are over for the summer. I'll need to move temporarily
because of reconstruction in our flats, and when I did a spring clean, I found
my old Dictaphone, and what's more surprising, when I put batteries into it, I
found that it works, so everything going well, I should be ok until
Christmas, even after my friend's classes start back up please God. I'll keep
the Dictaphone I found and will give her the one she had this year.
Once again please accept my sincerest apologies for everything and thank you
for all your help.
All the best and God bless,
Maria.
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