Carl,
I wish you luck with the new computer. Don't forget about Bill White. His email
has changed slightly because his internet service provider has changed. His
phone number is the same. Let me know if you want to contact him and need help.
Did you ask for your new computer to be set up to look like windows 7? I did
that because there's no way that I can learn new stuff at this point in my
life.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 10:11 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Much to deal with today.
When Cathy and I began our rehab business back in 1995, the future stretched
out forever. That ssimply is no longer true. And yet, we live each day in
basically the ssame manner, even though we're "retired", and we do some
frittering of Time, each day, listening to books or taking cat naps.
Which reminds me, I just bought a new(refurbished)computer. It has Windows
Tenand the current JAWS. I gave up trying to set aside time to learn NVDA on
my lap top. Part of the problem with the lap top is the difficulty I have in
using the keyboard. But part of it is that my "learning curve" is in need of
being refurbished, too. Anyway, I expect to be focused on mastering the new
computer, for a couple of weeks.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/29/21, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Re: [blind-democracy] Re: Much to deal with today.
Well it does seem like an old age, but I got too thinking about that.
My mother was almost exactly 21 years older than me. I was born five
days after her twenty-first birthday. So I thought about what was
happening when she was the same age that I am now. Good grief, that
was the year 2000. It was right in the middle of the election campaign
of that year that was taking up so much of my attention. Honestly, it
seems like current events to me.
Well, it
will be just that long until I am at the age she was today when she
died and I expect it will seem to be even shorter than the last 21
years. I am reminded of a Facebook post I saw a few days ago. It said,
"it's really weird being the same age as old people." I understand the
sentiment.
Considering how much
time it seems has passed it feels like I just got through being a
teenager. I don't feel like an old person. But that twenty-one years
until I am the age of my mother I am sure will pass really quickly for
me and, frankly, I doubt that I will get that far. At least, when she
was the age I am now back in the year 2000 her health was a lot better
than mine is right now.
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big
questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept
the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust
to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a
command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn
the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are
here to drink beer. We are here to kill war.
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death
will tremble to take us.” ― Charles Bukowski On 3/29/2021 9:18 PM,
Carl Jarvis wrote:
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That's hard news, Roger. When my grandma Ludwig died my older sister
said to our mother, "Well, she was 92." "She was still my mother,"
mother said.
When my mother's time came, she died of cancer at the age of 84. At
the time it seemed like an old age...but now I will be 85 next month.
It's never the right time.
My thoughts are with you.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/29/21, Roger Loran Bailey
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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I suppose this is neither here nor there to you guys, but I am
mentioning it because it is strongly on my mind. It is on my mind
because I have spent all day dealing with the aftermath. My mother
died this morning. It was not with a lot of warning either. It was six
days after she entered the hospital and right up until last night
everyone was expecting that she would be discharged at any time.
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big
questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept
the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust
to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a
command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn
the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are
here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at
the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take
us.” ― Charles Bukowski
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block quote end
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Charles Bukowski “For those who believe in God, most of the big
questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept
the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust
to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a
command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn
the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are
here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at
the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take
us.” ― Charles Bukowski