William Allen Hadley

 Somewhere close to six hours of sleep.


Sorry no cute audio of it saying in Aussie accent "out ot paper"
Braille embosser and
supply of braille paper
What's the Braille embosser doing here, aside from the fact that it is the only source of printing right now at the STAR Center.


Think Quaker name dropping meets Wikipedia. Think William Allen Hadley, founder of the Hadley school for the blind, free braille courses for anyone in the world. He went blind in 1915 at the age of 55 due to a detached retina. He graduated from Earlham college. I did not absorb what he did before going blind.

In other news, the toddler across the hall has some kind of marvelously noisy car to run up and down the hall. All well and fine as long as he leaves the cat alone.

Speaking of cats, nothing like exchanging cat tweets with....(never mind)


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