in attendance (12 participants):
Anthony burke, Derry Walsh, Dominique Farrell, Chris Egan, Pat McCarthy, Ken
Walsh, Cearbhall O'Meadhra, Martin Kelly, Noreen Meagher, Paul Griffith
Apologies: Gavin Allman, Jackie McBrearty.
Dogs, particularly guide dogs, were on everyone's mind this morning. Derry led
with the announcement that his current guide dog was being withdrawn for
various failures to guide him safely. After landing him in the middle of the
road to be rescued by drivers and hooted at from cars to warn him that he was
no longer on the path, Derry had, finally, to admit that the time had come.
Almost everyone at the meeting had a doggy tale to tell that extolled the
virtues of their best experience or commiserated with Derry in his demise. Big
dogs, old dogs and little sharp toothed companion creatures kept the
conversation flowing. For the moment, Derry must return to the use of the white
cane while he awaits a new guide dog.
Martha was delighted to tell that she is being reassessed for a guide dog next
week. All wished her every success in her endeavours to get under way.
Doggy weights and weighing scales came next. Some vets take a relaxed approach
to dog weight and grade the dog by eye and accept a dog when it is clearly not
fat or lazy.
Dominique brought up the need and benefit of grooming and admitted that she
grooms her charge every day.
Moving swiftly along to technology, Martin was curious to know if Eric Damery
of Freedom Scientific had brought any exciting news to the Sight and Sound
presentation during the past week. Dominique had attended most of the two-hour
long session and found that there were no significant new developments.
Chris asked if Microsoft Windows had a touch screen solution similar to
Apple's range of IOS devices. We heard that the Surface Pro range of products
provide full touch screen access to Windows 10 and the upcoming windows 11
operating system. Screen reader access will be as in current windows systems.
Touch gestures are available in NVDA and JAWS which should prove compatible
with the Surface Pro devices.
We were delighted to welcome Anthony Burke, basking in Malta's heat wave.
Anthony was worried about his battery life and needed to find out how to manage
his usage and extend the battery life. Pat explained the mysteries of charging
and best use of Aeroplane mode. Everyone piled in to reveal the workings of the
battery Health function in settings in IOS. All agreed that battery health is
assumed to bottom at 82%, indeed Martin Kelly bewailed the state of his iPhone
6 battery at 68%. Dominique,, at 96% and Pat at 100% definitely lead the field.
Dire warnings were given against those who charge their iPhone all night and
against charging the device while running heavy loads.
Martha received her Echo Show 8 just before the start of the meeting. It cost
her â¬106 in the recent amazon Prime sale. She described it as a flat screen
resting at a 45 degree angle on its base so that objects could be conveniently
held in front of it for identification.
We were delighted to hear that Paul is almost out of the woods after
long-suffering weeks of successful therapy and accurately focussed exercises.
Derry reminded all that the Cork Book Club is coming up shortly.
The meeting ended.
All the best,
Cearbhall
m +353 (0)833323487 Ph: _353 (0)1-2864623 e: cearbhall.omeadhra@xxxxxxx
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