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Writings about Ataxia, being DeafBlind, family life. The best life can offer!

  • New iPad

    So, my 9th generation iPad was slowly succumbing to unfunctionality, so I got a new one! My intervenor said, when I affirmed the deal, there were four colours: Black, Silver, Pink and Yellow. I wanted…

  • Another TV observation

    Have you noticed, in some shows, bespectacled characters seem to have more than one pair of glasses. It’s as if they own an entire LensCrafters store of different frames! This character went from classic aviators to rounded frames, plus some…

  • TV observations

    Some more interesting TV observations: Have you noticed that in almost every TV show from the Dukes of Hazzard right up to Chicago Fire; characters with well-defined bodies almost always wear tight-fitting shirts, low-necklines, shorts with bulges in the right…

  • Olympics observations

    Hi there, the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics are now finished and Italy is recovering! The Summer games are coming in 2 years… Have you noticed… when an athlete (Olympian or Paralympian) falls during their performance/event (skiing, figure skating, gymnastics,…

  • Word of the day…

    …is out of whack! Seems I trailed off; 52 then 54 and suddenly 57! A gap, a space, then nothing… I’m going to rectify that shortly. But, first I need to move to a different area because the spot I…

  • Shocked!

    Today, I experienced something I have never, well, experienced before. I was, probably, the only DeafBlind students who attended Simon Fraser University during the last five years before Y2K, heck, I don’t even think there was another Deaf student enrolled…

  • Random TV thoughts

    Hi there, in continuing my Random Thoughts about Television dialogue, today I am really gonna hit a giant nail with a cartoonishly big hammer! Have you noticed that… …that there is a whole breadth of missing opportunities in medical, police,…

  • Speaking…

    Were you aware, maybe not as I hardly know anyone in WordPress Land, that I can speak and talk? I grew up hearing, but now I can’t hear anything. Because of this, I had a very good command of spoken…

  • Blind moment #327

    Modern arcades… huge warehouses filled with thousands of games, millions of flashing, pulsing lights, loud, apparently, music and thousands of people! A blind guy like me, would be content to sit, write this blog, watch our food, than strolling the…