Even though I went to bed quite early last night and slept fairly well, I woke up late this morning and so didn't go out for exercise. In fact, I didn't even step outside the apartment at all today (other than onto the balcony, of course).
I taught 10 units today: 10:00-11:30, 12:00-1:30, 2:00-3:30, 3:30-5:00, and 7:00-8:30. It was a busy day! We had to squeeze lunch in between 1:30 and 2:00, so of course we ate at home.
This evening, I called the U.S. and was able to order a computer and scanner for David. It is equipped with a special software system that allows a blind person to run it easily, including reading and sending e-mail and getting some information from the internet, such as news and weather. Full internet browsing will still not be very feasible, however, because of the huge amount of largely irrelevant information that is displayed on nearly every web page nowadays. Those of us with full vision can easily ignore most of this and quickly find the content we actually want to read, but a screen reader tends to be pretty dumb and just reads everything. By the time it finally gets to what you really want, you have gone to sleep or at least completely lost interest! So, David is very much looking forward to getting this new system, and I think it will help him keep active and interested in things, which is very important. Of course, the system is NOT cheap, but it something that we simply HAD to get for him.
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