IT's not the UN. It's Laundry.

RantWoman is trying to finish some Important Documents, the kind of Important Documents where one's brain gets so full of what one is trying to keep track of that one is tempted to take breaks.




A drawbridge over the Neva River
in St Petersburg Russia

Digression to try to make tactile graphic images of a drawbridge in honor of the opening of boating season. Okay RantWoman chose an iconic bridge in St. Petersburg Russia and spent a whole hour fussing about landscape orientation, image size and the text for the braille title without ever getting near say the Fremont Bridge. More than enough working visually in Tactile View. RantWoman needs to focus on getting someone with better eyes to do stuff like this. Teamwork. Teamwork. Oh, and one's search engine yields some rocking bridge nerd info on the Seattle DOT website.

But back to what RantWoman is Trying to Get Done. RantWoman promised the Important Documents process one page about what she in particular commits to do for the project. RantWoman has a whole list of "We do not know if it will work and we do not promise to deliver." comments. Things like "we do not promise our limited series of classes will magically make students conversant in English." "We do not promise that people who do not read in their native languages" will be excited about textual screens in any language."  These are not the sort of thing one usually writes for this kind of Important Document. More like "We want to try X based on Y previous experiences." But One page. One Page. One Page. Stay tuned.

Then RantWoman's febrile mind wandered AGAIN, to LAUNDRY. RantWoman is writing Important Documents about communities where people live, work,  and do laundry with many neighbors with whom they may have all kinds of language barriers. It's kind of like the UN only laundry has to happen. But it's the same laundry equipment. And the same directions. And there are cellphone cameras and Youtube channels. And lots of buildings who need the same info in some of the same languages. Never mind about all the pieces of digital literacy and technology that need to line up. Let's see what people can do!  Stay tuned!