62 Comments Posted by BlueSkyes

Fan. Collecting. Well I guess you learn something new every day. I'm still shaking my head over this whole section of comments. I had no idea people collected old fans nor did I know that the fan collection world was so lively. Ah well I guess people collecting old fans isn't any stranger than people collecting old cars or TVs or anything else old people collect...

Fan? Collecting? Oh my! This really is the oddest thred yet that I have read. It has got my head spinning round and round. BTW that is a rather creepy fan. I'd bet, if it ran, a lot of dust and crud would billow out... Also the shadow of the blades is a bit strange and unnerving. It looks like it could remove a finger or two, the blades... Nways...

Yeah, what is that sticking out above the window? To me and my shite sight it looked at first glance to be a tree branch, but blowing up the picture to super large showed no trees to which the branch could be attached. So I'm guessing it's some sort of ariel?

Ahh don't ya know? Nearly every state school and hospital has tall fences all round their grounds. This is to keep the nosey ole' public out so that the workers there can abuse the residents! Okay I'm just kidding. Really though, I think a lot of state schools and hospitals have tall fences like this not to torment the people on the inside, just for security measures. I know that the state school for the blind I attended as a child for summer term had a very very tall fence around the grounds and I was freaked out by it and worried a bit as to my fate but it was explained to me that the location of the school was and still is in a very bad neighborhood and it was, the fence I mean, was for security.

Maybe there is another part to these steps, like a platform or slide that has gone missing?

Hey! That's rather clever turning the electrical box into part of the painting! Very cool!

I had a sink that looked just like this one in my very first apartment! It was in south central Kansas. The apartments started out as well these lil resort? type hotel rooms for this golf corse that was near by. The place was built in 1929 and was just totally awsome! I really was sad to have to leave the apartment because it had so many neat, save perhaps this sink, things you simply can't find these days, large windows, hardwood floors french doors leading into the bedroom, arched front door, crystal or maybe they were glass doorknobs, I could go on and on!

Hey, it does look like Spock. And re my last posting... I think this painting or stencel or whatever it is would look just as creepy if it weren't in a disused mental hospital... Although it being in a disused mental hospital makes it slightly more creepy if you get what I'm trying to say.

AAAAH! God in heaven!

Oooooooooooo! EEAK! I've heard of people's skin crawling but never understood what exactly that ment or felt like. Well until I saw this...this... whatever the hell it's supposed to be! Also, it is times such as these that I'm rather thankful my eye sight is as bad as it is. LOL That face looks just hella evil! Gads and it might be just me but those eyes make me feel like I'm being watched! Damn what a horrid picture to have in a mental hospital! If you wern't a bit cracked up already, you sure could get that way having to look at this day in and day out! Geeeebus! And the more I look at it, y'know? It looks an awful lot like an ex of mine who, I think, truely was gone beyond all recall!

Oh wow! I nearly frogot about those sinks. We had those in the grade school(s). I liked them b/c the way the water came out reminded me of the rainforest building at our local zoo.

I like this shot. It's rather peaceful and calming. as for what is at the end of the hall, my guess woul be either a door or a wall... J/K. :G>

You are going to find, no matter where you go, state school, mental hospital, out in the real world, that there are kind and caring people and then there are just mean A-holes that would be mean no matter what. It's just hat t s... Life. It isn't always fair or pretty or nice ut you deal...

Oooh! Come to think of it. We were admonished about disposing of our sanatary items at the blind school. We could NOT NOT NOT flush items down the toilet, nor could we just toss them away in the trash. We had to wrap up the used item in toilet paper before putting it in the trash. I guess so the people who took out the trash would have a layer of protection between them and our used items. That has been so engrained into my personal toilet habbits that I just sort of thought everyone did this, wrapping up their used item in toilet paper and then putting it in the trash. It wasn't until my feeancee remarked about it one day that I discovered lots of people don't dispose of those items as I do. And that my method of disposal is well? strange.

Hi regarding this calling people clients and brother and sister,
On every single disasterous spin I took on the ever revolving door at our state run rehab center for adult blind I and my fellow students, my word for us, not theirs (theirs meaning the folks running the center) Has been, and I guess will always be, unless the word "client" somehow becomes not P.C. "client.


I've always found this to be just a bit odd, although I suppose "client" is far better than inmate or being reduced to some nameless faceless case number.. to be filed away in some poor overworked VR counsler's caseload

Client, I guess is also used so that we, those who seak help from Voc Rehab in whatever form be it training, job placement, obtaining assistive technology so we can go to work, school or just lead as best a life as we are able to feel a part of the whole VR team. There was a time, not too long ago when we were told not asked or listened to what was to become of our lives. After all, we surely couldn't have the slightest idea what was in our best interest, being blind or disabled and all. We needed somebody, most times a non-disabled person to do our thinking for us... I'm being a bit sarcastic, but it's true, in the past if you had some sort of disability nobody wanted to take you seriously to listen to you. I guess this is because the people in charge, the non-disabled ones at any rate Had no idea what they'd do if they had whatever disability you had. They wouldn't know how to cope, some, not all of them. So they couldn't see how you would cope.

Like I said not everyone is/was like this, but some folks are. But over the past several years, we've been asked to step out of our sheltered workshops and back rooms and to have a voice in our future. So they did away with inmate, although, VR being as under-staffed and overloaded with people needing help as it is I'm not so sure about the being a nameless faceless case number. LOL just kidding...

Honestly I don't care what you call me as long as you can give me the help I'm seaking and to do this with dignity

As for this brother/sister thing. I hope I can write this and not muck it up. I think they did this to foster a "family" feel. I mean here are all these kids away from their own families so in a way the school/hospital was their family. It's rather odd and stilted but nothing new. For example at my time at the state school for the blind w e had dorm mothers and dorm dads, I guess that's what the guys called their overseers. We had to address all dorm staff by Miss. or Mr. whatever their first name was. And they just called us by our first names. Of corse in school we had to call our teachers Mr. or Mrs. last name. At the private adjustment center for adult blind in Colorado I attended a few years ago and at the school I attend to receive my guide dogs, we drop the Mr. and Mrs. so n so and just call eachother, staff, students and or trainers, in the case of guide dog school, by our first names. I like this because it is more relaxed andfriendly and I don't feel so much like a thing something is being done to, rather I feel like a person who is doing and choosing for herself just the same as anyone.

The tubs in this picture are in fact very much like, right down to the placement/arrangement minus the big hallway? window as the tubs in the dorm (long gone by now, they knocked it down oh, over 10 years ago in favor of whatever it is they have for a dorm now) had been.