The Life and Times of Me

Well, we did not end up watching an audio-described movie on Wednesday evening, but that's fine with me 'cause the movie we did watch had a lot of dialog. We saw "Police Academy," which we enjoyed. We also ate hot dogs, popcorn and chips. Or at least most of us did.

Why hello to everybody. It has once again been like forever since my last entry. But fear not, I'm still alive and kickin'. I've been busy with mostly good stuff, but with some bad things mixed in. I had a cold and my ears filled up with tons of wax. I was honestly not that sick, but I had a lot of trouble hearing and you can probably imagine how tough that gets for a blind guy like me, lol! But anyhow, I had eardrops put in both ears and then they were flushed out last week. Actually the process of flushing them out was kinda cool. I had it done once prior to last week, a few years back at the same office. For those of you who have never had this done, it tickles a bit. But I'm ticklish so that wasn't bad at all.





The other bad thing that happened was that my toilet seat busted. The good news however, is that just a few nights ago when my awesome father dropped me off here after a lovely Father's Day weekend, he brought not one, but 2 new toilet seats and lids and his toolbox and went to work. So I now have a brand-new seat and lid on my toilet. I have since had occasion to use the toilet in my apartment, and had no trouble thus far. I cannot thank my father enough for what he did. In addition, I cannot thank my neighbor across the hall enough for letting me invade his bathroom. Even though his bathroom is honestly not that great of a place, I was able to take care of business in there.

Hi everyone. Hope all is well in your part of the world. Good. I'd like to introduce all my readers to a wonderful organization which I just found out about a couple weeks ago. But first, let me say that I'm in no way trying to convert anybody here to Christianity, Judaism or any such thing. Everybody has their personal preferences regarding religion, faith etc. and I am a firm believer in religious tolerance. Those of you who have heard of this organization are just being re-introduced to it whether you like it or not,. lol. Simply skip over this entry if you think you'll be bored to tears and/or offended by it.





I received an email a couple weeks ago from my mother, who had received information from a CIF staffer about an organization called Talking Bibles International. My mother asked me if I wanted one of their Bibles, and I immediately replied to her with an enthusiastic Yes. Being a lifelong Christian, I was not only intrigued about finally getting my very own Bible in an accessible format, but I also wanted to explore this organization more. So I immediately clicked on the website link in the email, and was taken to their home in cyberspace. I was pleasantly surprised to find a website that is completely accessible with VoiceOver and Chromevox Classic on the Mac. While waiting for my Bible to arrive, I explored the site. There is a whole section where you can listen to various parts of the Bible read in different languages, all for free. My Bible took about a week to get here, which I'd say is a sufficient amount of time. I cannot say much about this company's customer service, but it must be pretty good if the item arrived without a hitch.





As it turned out, I went to my parents' place about a week ago to celebrate a family member's birthday. I spent the night here, and after breakfast the next morning I had a look at the talking Bible. I was amazed at the size and weight of the thing. The website states that these Bibles look just like pocket Bibles, and they're not kidding. This thing only has a few simple controls, making it a breeze to operate. I was expecting at least some bells and whistles to go along with the narration, but there are none of these. At least I haven't found any thus far. But no worries there. Speaking of the narration, it is quite good. I hadn't heard this narrator prior to receiving the Bible. While this Bible does come with a USB adapter, it is powered by solar energy and therefore requires no batteries.





I highly recommend people check out this organization if they haven't already. Just point your favorite web browser to http://www.talkingbibles.org . Those of you regular churchgoers may also want to let your respective parishes know about this awesome organization.

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. It's a neighborly day in the beautihood.

Happy Halloween too to those who have it today. Please check out this video when you have a moment. http://onj.me/2l8i3

This is just a test entry with MarsEdit's HTML editor. Please do not attempt to leave any comments as they will be turned off.

Happy Dad's Day to all of the wonderful dads out there, including mine. New beta page working well with Chromevox too.

I'm all alone for the next couple of days 'cause my neighbor friend across the way is on a mini-vacation. I have no more friends, lol! Whoa is me!

Hey everyone. Not got much to share for this entry but some random tidbits. I'm sitting out here on my back porch, enjoying this beautiful weather that we had today. I have yet to check the latest forecast via Weather Underground, so I'm not sure if the beautiful weather will stick around for good this time but I'm hoping it will.





Today was a very good day, as most of them are for me. I spent most of it getting used to the service which was installed yesterday in my apartment. I didn't actually have much to get used to though, since it is basically an extension of the Internet and phone service which I already had. There are some additional features, which haven't been set up yet. I might have to have sighted assistance with those though, since I've never used them before. Actually I think only one of the features is totally new to me, that being some sort of voice add-on for my land line. But I guess I'll find out all about it when the time comes. I think the biggest win for me though was a reduced rate for me and my neighbor across the hall. He and I have been splitting the cost of our phone and Internet now for a little while, and today was his birthday so I think the lower cost is a cool present. The service was installed in my place yesterday, and it seems to be working just as it should. Additionally, the technician who was here and the technician with whom I spoke on the phone earlier in the week, were both very professional and courteous.





I also had 2 implants put in my mouth this week, with a follow-up appointment yesterday. The endodontist and his staff did an excellent job with everything, and I'm healing quite nicely and on schedule.





I'm going to learn how to use iCloud with my computer. Originally I was going to purchase an external hard drive for use with my MacBook, but after talking it over with my father last weekend I think I'll try out the cloud. I'm admittedly not as well-versed on a lot of this stuff as most of you no doubt are, but I'll get there. As previously mentioned I love my MacBook and I'm eager to learn more about it.

Well...I guess this email posting thing works with Chromevox too!
After all it's just creating an entry using my email provider's
interface, which is already very accessible. But it's good to test
these things out anyway, right?