[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Descriptions and the old days
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:29:10 -0600
Cindy,
You should hear yourself complainingg about the old days. <smile> The next
thing I expect to hear is that you had to walk 3 miles uphill in the snow to
get more paper then three miles back home, also uphill in the snow, before
you could retype the page, and that 500 sheets only cost a nickel back then.
<grin>
Your talk of wishing you had a computer back then reminds me of one of my
professors telling me about when she and her husband bought their first
computer. They weren't sure whether or not to get 4K of RAM, or splurge and
get the 16k. They decided to get the 16k, but they couldn't imagine why
they would ever need that much memory. <grin> And this was a professor
Ffrom the Computer Science department telling this on herself.
Gerald
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Descriptions and the old days
Well, I can try to tell you what Donna and E(lizabeth)
look like.
Both are, I'd say, in their early forties, though they
look younger to me. Both have long, i.e., waist-length
or even slightly longer, straight dark hair with a few
gray strands running hrough. Both have pretty faces.
Both are, I would say, around five feet five inches,
though they may be slightly taller. I'm basing that on
the fact that I'm supposedly five feet four and a half
inches tall, though I think I may have shrunk a little
as I've aged. I think Elizabeth is slightly taller,
but I'm not sure. Unfortunately, I'm not a
particularly observant person, and I didn't pay close
attention, even though we visited face to face for
about an hour and a half. Both are attractive,
intelligent, vital, fun-to-be with women. Elizabeth
is, I think, more out-going and friendly than I
sometimes think she appears in the lists. To show you
how unobservant I am, I can tell you what Donna was
wearing (a dark outfit --suit? dress, top and slacks?
I think the latter-- over a red turtleneck) because
she told me so I'd recognize her when we were to meet
-- and even then I asked the wrong person if she were
Donna (the first blind person I saw who seemed to be
looking for someone, even though she was outside
instead of in the lobby and even though she wasn't
wearing a red turtleneck)., but I can't tell you what
Elizabeth was wearing. If I get to meet people next
year, I'll make a point of being more observant.
Oh -- and as I think I mentioned before, Donna has a
lovely golden lab (I think --I don't think it's a
retriever, but Idon't know dogs, and I can't remember
for sure what she said when I asked) and Elizabeth has
a black lab. After reading First Lady of the Seeing
Eye, I've more aware of guide dogs and their behavior,
and these, as of course would be expected, were
wonderful living examples. The only blind person I've
known personally in my life was the father of a friend
back in the early fifties, and he used neither dog nor
cane -- just his wife. He was a very successful
attorney and husband and father of two) who had become
blind in adolescence (I don't know the condition). I
admired him then for his accomplishments. I wish all
the technology available now had been available then.
It's much like the computer for us sighted people. My
husband and I wish we had had word processors when we
were in college instead of only typewriters. We didn't
even have liquid paper or those corrective strips that
you could use to type over errors. If we made typing
errors we had to retype the whole page.
Cindy
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