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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings, friends. I am sorry to tell you that our friend Gail Bryant has been transferred to a nursing home in Boonville, Missouri. She is in such physically bad shape that she cannot stand or walk, meaning that going home is not a possibility. She needs total care. I think that she would appreciate a call from many of us, and I’m sure that you already have her telephone number.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On a related note, her family is trying to move everything out of her home and dispose of it as quickly as they can. At this point there is no money for utilities, and all of them have other things they must do in their lives. Ed’s sister, Debbie Dupree, asked that I come to look at the things that Ed and Gail had that were blindness related. Gail has several Perkins Brailler’s. None of them appear to be in working order, but mostly that is because they are dusty, dirty, and need a good cleaning and lubrication. They are willing to sell them. She has several of the old APH cassette recorders that many of us loved for a long time. Whether they are usable or not is questionable, and Debbie will try plugging them in to see if she can get them to play. What is really terrible is that Gail has several braille displays, everything from an old BrailleNote to the model that was sold new in 2010. The braille displays are not ones that HumanWare is maintaining anymore, so although they originally sold for thousands of dollars, it is hard to see how anyone could do better than a very speculative investment and some of them. I think they are bound for the trash, but I decided to let you know they are there.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The sale is supposed to run Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of this week and will be at 1212 London Dr. here in Columbia. I think that there are tens of thousands of dollars in blindness related equipment, but again, I think it is tremendously speculative in terms of whether it is worth anything. Anyone who is interested in chancing on a really good bargain should go by and check it out.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Warmly,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Gary<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>