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cosmolinguistAt the gym, I spotted someone holding what looked like a guide cane. (There are different kinds of white canes.)
He was just standing around, looking kinda vague. So when I finished the exercise I was doing, I went over and asked him if he would like any help.
We didn't share much language, but I got the impression he didn't want to be bothered, so I cheerfully went on my way.
But when I was doing my next exercise, he came over and said something about "check weights."
I hopped up with a confidence I soon realized was unearned. I was at that time actually using the only machine I can read the weight numbers on...because they've been repainted by hand. I rarely use the free weights because I can't find the dumbbells I need most of the time -- everything is labeled black-on-black! Why?!
Anyway, he didn't actually want help setting the weights for a machine or finding free weights. He wanted me to read his weight, from a scale that I hadn't even known was in the gym.
The numbers on the scale were so tiny.
Oops: I quickly realized I'm the worst person in the gym for him to ask!
Luckily I had my phone on me, so I could do what I usually do when I'm out and about and something is too small for me to read: took a photo on my phone and zoomed in.
I read out the number to him, and he seemed dismayed. He actually handed me his cane and asked me to read his weight again.
Guide canes are only a meter long, they're hollow, and they're very light. White canes working properly depends on them being very light! Sorry my friend: the number was the same the second time.
Anyway, moral of the story is: sighted people should offer help to a blind person, because if you don't another blind person is gonna recognize their cane and be excited about it and offer help that it turns out I'm shit at actually providing.
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james_davis_nicollWhich 1997 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Calcutta Chromosome by Amitav Ghosh
3 (9.4%)
Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
17 (53.1%)
Gibbon's Decline and Fall by Sheri S. Tepper
9 (28.1%)
Looking for the Mahdi by N. Lee Wood
4 (12.5%)
The Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
11 (34.4%)
Voyage by Stephen Baxter
5 (15.6%)
james_davis_nicollcosmolinguistI applied for a job and I talked to my parents this evening. And I watched the Twins lose a heartbreaker (all credit to Jackson Chourio though, wow).
Can't believe my reward for this is that I have to go to bed soon so I can go to work in the morning!
rmc28I was caught unawares in the background of photos taken yesterday after the game, and I was so amused by the exhaustion evident in my position and expression that it had to become an icon.
(I was revived with cake and a drink shortly after this was taken.)
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We went to the Highland Folk Museum where they had a recreation
schoolroom. Sophia loved writing with an ink pen, Gideon loved
supervising her.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
watervoleMy sister Gillian lives in the Pennines (an area we both love), and she does fell-running. Rather like myself with morris-dancing, she's suffered from injuries and other issues, but picks herself up with determination, gets back to fitness and starts all over again.
For something you love, it's worth it.
This year, she's taken on a really big challenge - an 8-day expedition race in Scotland, going from Fort William to the top northwest corner of Scotland (the lighthouse at Cape Wrath).
All the participants wear trackers, so you can follow them.
I can see that she's made a good start and is now at Glenfirman
If you want to look, click here. She's number 92.
I'm rooting for her to make it to the end, but it's a tough course!
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