BLIND AS A BAT

I could talk about the weather again, but I’d just say we are having some.

Gail got a similar camera for Christmas to the one I bought so I went up to her place and we compared notes and took a few pictures. Gail is a little leery of computers so I was showing her how the two would work together (I’m so technologically savvy). She is going to need an extended cord to hook her camera to her computer. That made her nervous. She asked me about a symbol in her instruction book and where it was on her camera I didn’t have that one. Where was the flowerpot? She couldn’t see it.

In the meantime Maria had arrived and was trying to figure out what we were talking about. Maria had been a photographer for the Navy in her early years. I have seen some of her work and it is very good. When I also failed to find the flowerpot symbol she said she would find it. I know I have said this before, but just to remind you Maria is nearly blind. The whole time she was looking over and over the camera Gail was eyeing me with a smirk. I knew what she was thinking. Maria can’t even see. Well, in time she laid the camera down and left. She was barely out the door when Gail burst into laughter. Needless to say, Maria never found the symbol either.

So I looked at the camera again and tried to get it into better light. I can see that several buttons have impressions on them, Black indentations on black buttons. Miss a button when making a selection and you will hit two buttons. The tiny symbols and artsy keys are impossible for those of us with failing eyesight to see. Everything is getting smaller while our eyes are getting weaker.

I get a kick out of people demanding ever larger and larger TV’s while they are getting smaller and smaller. Go figure.

Later I went to do my laundry and as usual someone has begun another puzzle. They were laying out another dark dreary lifeless picture of nearly identically colored animals or muted flowers surrounded by a sea of green. I have never wanted a puzzle to challenge me — I want a puzzle to be bright, with lots contrasting colors that will be fun to do. Moat people want the challenge. And there was another challenging one being laid out. There was only one that fit my criteria so I started to lay it out and nearly had the border completed when Maria arrived to let me know one had already been begun. I’m not taking it down. There is room for two puzzles. If some want to do the green puzzle, they may or they can do this Christmas one I have begun. That ended it and I am happy and will actually go and work on my puzzle now. I can also be selfish.

So you can see, life goes on. The blind try to lead the blind. The controlling try to control (that’s me). And we continue to laugh at the absurd. There’s lots to laugh about.