We crack ourselves up

( What we're laughing like fools over )

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Today I am wondering what would happen if I just dropped everything that wasn't my day job or my family. Side jobs, magazine, volunteer work, social life, everything.

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The AntiCraft is throwing three sheets to the wind this autumn and looking for submissions on a mixological theme. Original cocktails, recipes, bar accouterments[sic], and all other "spirit"ual projects will be considered.

If I should go blind

So there's no way to say this next sentence without sounding kind of dramatic, but imagine me saying it in a "hmm, that's interesting" kind of way, not an "OHMIGOD" kind of way, because I've known about it for a couple of years and it's not something I lie awake at night thinking about, 'kay?

There's a small-to-medium-sized chance, according to my eye doctor, that one day I will wake up and my eyesight will be very bad, and then I'll go blind very quickly. I have a rare enough form of macular degeneration that every retina examination I've ever had has prompted the doctor to go grab a bunch of other docs and students to take a look. Also? They're always *stunned* (and a bit unbelieving) that I've never done drugs (besides legal ones). Seems that the crystals in my retinas are in an unusual pattern that's generally caused by drug abuse.

So, anyway.

I am thinking of doing two things as proactive disability preparation for myself: Learning to use screen-reader software, and maybe learning Braille.

I know that Braille is used less and less often as other kinds of accessible texts spring up all over the place, but when I think about the prospect of being forced to be *read to* instead of reading things for myself, in my head, in my own voice, I get a bit agitated and upset.

So, anyone out there know the best way for me to go about learning Braille?