RantWoman is probably supposed to put the most positive spin possible on the ends of #WeekWithoutDriving, #NDEAM (National Disabilities Awareness Month) and a certain all-virtual state convention about which some of RantWoman's more prickly opinions should go into targeted email rather than to the whole blogosphere. Postcards from the weekend

Names / topics especially to remember with thanks and respect

Kirk Adams, currently President of the American Foundation for the Blind

Ari Neiman and people appreciating Ari Neiman

A woman named Anna Gomez who has a Youtube channel called BlindVision full of the sounds of her life.

The woman on the employment panel talking about one job as part of the Humana healthcare system where accessibility is built into the software (Thank you the Two Chicks in Marketing) and a different job where "accessibility" meant having to hire a programmer to adjust accessibility software every time there was a major update (Jargon: JAWS scripting)

Food, traffic, Less salt better vegetables

Around RantWoman #WeekWithoutDriving lasts all year. RantWoman's concession to the weekend schedule was to order grocery delivery and schedule it outside of rush hour. RantWoman means soon to conduct sort of a grocery delivery bakeoff. In this case RantWoman forgot some key items but an unexpected opening in the schedule and a dead simple there and back bus option meant RantWoman got to give in to yearning for some Halloween candy and to select her own bananas. RantWoman passed on the opportunity to fly into a fit about the clerk putting the bananas on the bottom of the bad and just quietly repacked several things, balanced the weight among the bags, and  stowed the bananas to her satisfaction. Overall also a win: less salt and better vegetables than much hotel food.

The cat opines

The Queen of Spades is not that interested in the voices coming out of the cellphone. She is always interested in the human's availability to pet her. Also she does not prefer to put up with intruders even if intruders need to come feed her because RantWoman is away. Fortunately for the Queen of Spades, cats generally are exempt from necessity to worry about DRAMAS occurring in connection with RantWoman's building. 

Pet-themed digression for non-drivers: RantWoman has seen plenty of pet carriers holding howling creatures on the bus. RantWoman's experience with a previous cat: the howls of protest are not less in a car; since RantWoman finds transit physically more comfortable just take the bus and don't worry about some drivers' pet issues.

Zoom process:

RantWoman is not clear how many of the tech team are totally blind or visually impaired. The event was run as a webinar. RantWoman found the dance of muting, unmuting, promoting to the panel, lowering hands, and not being able to tell who else was in queue a little stifling and frustrating. Enough said for now. Such opportunities for continued learning.