[stylist] Writing Prompts & chortling at Vejas's email address

Sat Feb 4 18:10:23 UTC 2012

Hi Robert and everyone...

Screen names and their origins?  Well okay, here  goes. My screen name of 
Kajuncutie926 contain my birthdate, September 26th and a  tribute of a sort.  
When I worked in the school system, my supervisor  always said he wanted 
something 'QT' (and he did mean QUICK) but he also  had a hard time 
remembering my name and always called me Kajun Lady.  Then  he shortened it to just 
Kajun so I'd hear this when he needed me in the office  'Kajun QT' so I just 
played around with the name and came up with this one in  honor of Mr. B who 
died of cancer some years ago.  He was a great boss and  had a remarkable 
understanding of 'special needs' children and loathed the  term.  He also said 
they were 'differently' needing and our job was to help  them reach their 
full potential in life and in spirit and he didn't give a hang  what everyone 
'thought' should be expected of these kids.. so Kajuncutie I  became.

In a message dated 2/4/2012 11:57:58 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
newmanrl at cox.net writes:

Hi you  all:

First --- Writing Prompts: I enjoy reading what you all  write in response 
to
posted prompts. And --- the reason you don't see much  coming from me in
response to these challenges meant to have us work at  challenging ourselves
to improve our craft --- I don't write one, nor take  the time to go line by
line and look for what I might suggest to look at  for improvement ---
because the thought of doing it stresses me out! Guess  I'm stuck in a
mind-set where I've got stuff to do, and only so many stress  resources to
work with and adding one more thing is --- stressful and to be  avoided! But
hey, this is just where I am at. I love seeing you all mixing  it up, 
working
to better yourselves by this method. 

Second:  in relation to Vejas's chosen email address of   
brlsurfer at gmail.com
--- for background, I personally am fascinated by what  people choose as an
email address. Funny, you can tell when you've run  across a real dye-hard
amateur radio buff, because the before-the-at-sign  is clearly a radio call
designation like- k7uij or w0egm (this second one  is for Hank Vetter, a
Omaha Chapter member and that first one is for a guy  that you may have seen
about on NFB lists and national conventions, Mike  Freeman). And some you'll
see are of blind guys who are super dog guide  freaks (not saying this
"freak" thing in a disrespectful manner), but an  example here might be
superdog at gmail.com Or another seem is a favorite  sports team, a religious
reference, or hoppy, personal talent of some kind,  or maybe its all in the
person's name, like mine newmanrl (Newman Robert  Leslie). 

And so getting to Vejas and his choice of b r l s u f  e r --- I'm thinking
down two different lanes of thought about his and I'm  hoping he will read
this and give us the secret to his choice- #1 My first  thought is, that the
brb r l which is the 3 letter contraction  for  Braille, and putting that
with the surfer part of the email address, tells  us that the owner is a guy
who surfs the Internet by means of Braille. Then  my second thought is that
our friend here came up with this email address  after his surfing adventure
that we all read about in "The Braille  Monitor." And so this guy is someone
who is a blind guy who uses touch as  his main mode to surf. 

Robert Leslie  Newman

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division  Website

<http://www.nfb-writers-division.net/>  http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair, Newsletter Publication  committee

Personal  Website-

<http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/>  http://www.thoughtprovoker.info

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