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Hello,
Some of you may know me as a letterboxer and some of you may know me
as the mother of a blind letterboxer (Outofsight) and the grandmother
of a letterboxer in training (Milkmonster). Recently, I have been
forced to put my letterboxing way, way back on my list of priorities
as the needs of my family have increased. My daughter and grandson are
the main priorities on my life and I have been focusing on spending as
much time with them as possible and I will do anything to make their
lives easier.

That being said, my daughter lost her sight 8 years ago from diabetes.
She was an EMT before that time and her husband is a paramedic and a
fireman. My son in law works two full time jobs to make ends meet for
their little family since Laura no longer works outside the home. She
did go back to school to learn how to be a massage therapist and does
have a few clients that she treats regularly. She had learned to use a
computer before she lost her sight and was retrained on it after she
became blind. The computer is her main means of finding out anything
she needs to know since she can't read a newspaper or book or a box or
can as most of us would. But now her computer died.

I found a contest to win a new computer but I am looking for votes to
help her win. You can read a lot about my daughter and grandson on my
blog at http://milkmonstersmimser.blogspot.com/ but what I am asking,
really, I am begging, is for votes for her to win the computer at
http://www.needatechmakeover.com/2008/09/janila-needs-a-tech-makeover-because/
If you could go to that website and click on the words "liked it" and
add a comment if you choose, I would appreciate it greatly. A new
computer would be the world to my daughter.
Thanks so much for any help,
Jan

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Hi Jan -- you entered this contest back in early Sept -- what took you
so long to post it here! You (or rather Outof sight) has my vote. I
never knew it was a recent blindness -- she was so upbeat when I met
her back in 2005, I thought she had lived with it since childhood
(kids are so adaptable).

But LBMA only has 516 members. I hope you take this to LBusa (big
list) where there are 3780 members. Give more folks an opportunity to
vote and feel they've something good today!

Judy
sewsowbizzy
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Happy to do anything I can you help out you and Out of Sight. You
should also post this to the AQ boards. Hopefully you will get all the
votes Laura needs to go over the top.

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Nathan Brown
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I voted and then passed it on to other yahoo groups I'm on. :)

Tammy
Rock Hoppin' Mama
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It's done!! Hope she wins!

missmoon
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I voted! Do you get any extra credit if we leave comments? Can we vote more
than once?

Best of luck,
Kit Kat
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Re: [LbNA] A Computer for Laura

The judging rules are really vague but since they have a category
called most popular and it pulls those with the most comments, I have
a feeling that it might play a part in the final decisions.

You can't vote more than once from a computer but you can vote on
other computers. It doesn't seem to track WHO is actually doing the
voting. I know that there are ways to get around the computer issue
but I am not that computer literate to figure out how and not really
sure that I would want to manipulate it.

Thanks so much for your votes!