A Conversation with Elizabeth
1999
Re: Monday

From:          LMixson
To:            Elizabeth
Sent:          Monday, June 28, 1999 11:29 AM
Subject:       Re: Monday
 
It was really hot here this past weekend.  Julie I and went for a bike ride along the C&O Canal which was quite hot.  It wasn't too bad if we kept moving but when we stopped it got hot really quick.  Didn't do much else, mostly stayed inside and played a new computer game I got last week.  Julie father has a friend that is blind and her father said he was interested in getting a computer and he asked me if I knew anything about it.  I knew there were voice programs that read screens but not much else.  As it turns out my yoga instructor does computer programming for a living and she works on programs for blind people.  Her boss is blind had he does programming in C which is one of the harder languages to use. I asked her about what can be done and what programs to use and she has suggested several so I've been checking that out.  It would be interesting to set that up for Julie's father's friend.  Julie and I went to the Unitarian Church here in Reston several times and found it quite interesting.  Although the have a regular type of service they often have other unusual services.  We went to one that had all music, not only singing but drums, electric guitar, etc.  Julie still occasional goes but I haven't been since last year.  Next week I have the ATF people from Cincinnati coming here on Wednesday and then I'm supposed to go to the USDA in Austin for Thursday and Friday so I'm quite busy this week getting everything ready.  Still don't have any plans for the 4th weekend, probably will just hang around the house.  Well back to work.  Larry

Although Julie had signed up for the current yoga session, she wasn’t going to class regularly while I liked it so much, I seldom missed a class.  We were taking a yoga level 2 class at the time with a woman named Susan who taught several yoga classes a week at the Health Advantage Yoga Center (HAYC). Susan had a full-time job as a computer programmer.  I really liked Susan as a yoga teacher because she was very logical with her teaching method, something I liked. At the end of each class Susan would tell a short story based on her life and experiences and would tie them into some yoga philosophy. It was from her end of class stories that she told of her programming experiences and her blind boss. After Julie’s father’s asked about computers for his blind friend, I approached Susan after class one day asking about software for blind people.

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