Welcome Visitor

Welcome in Bold Letters
The National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic. What a rush. this year, my first, 8 downhill runs on the mountain plus other activities at Snowmass Village, Co, 8,500 ft and higher up the mountain. Gotta experience it to know it!
In 2008, I made my first visit to the Veteran Hines Blind Center, Chicago and majored in white cane. The next year I returned and majored in computer accessibility! Today, with only light perception, that training has allowed me to do all kinds of stuff on my computer and smartphone with the aid of an audio screenreader! Another reason why my byline on my websites says Master Your Universe since it really boils down to that. Take the brass ring and run with it!

February 2026, the Blind Rehab Center, Wade Park VA, Cleveland, Ohio for adaptive training. Wonderful center with very good and professional teaching pros. I had adaptive training on a compact table-top text reader, the Lyric, great device, iPhone, VR Stream, Rayban Meta AI glasses and a brush-up on white cane mobility. Plus two trips for adaptive downhill ski lessons. My first time on two boards. What a rush! This prepared me for my first time at the VA Winter Sports Clinic a month later in April. All those devices? Not only learned adaptive skills with them but took them home with me as well. Happy camper!
Golf? Requires the buddy plan. I am lucky here at the Ohio Veterans Home having summer activity, trips to a local public course for a 9-hole round with others from the Home. The activity director on the trip acts as my golf buddy, lines me up properly, keeps an eye on the ball and such. Couldn't play otherwise.

All a warm up to a September mini-vacation! Golf at the Home is good enough to prepare me for the fall experience later in the year. The fall trip to the National Disabled Veterans Golf Clinic (formally TEE Tournament) held in Riverside, Iowa is a must.
Our five member team has been together for three years running. Three members of our golf team use the solo Vertacat or similar. Has transformed access to golf for them. Amazing, check out the video: Hope on The Green.

Music by Billywhitecane

August 2, 2026. My interpretation, guitar and vocal, "Call Me the Breeze" by JJ Cale. Recorded per my VR Stream, direct line-in to my guitar amp. Fender Tele Squire guitar with G2 effects pedal for added percussion and a bit of chorus. Edited for length, 4 individual tracks mixed (intro 270, vocal, rhythm and lead guitar), fade-in and fade-out, using the free audio editor, Audacity. Enjoy!

July 21, 2026. Some doodling. Call this one Chillin. Recorded per my VR Stream, direct line-in to my guitar amp. Fender Tele Squire guitar with G2 effects pedal for added percussion and a bit of chorus. Edited for length, adding 270 intro track, fade-in and fade-out with the free audio editor, Audacity. Enjoy!

July 2, 2026. No talk, just tune it up! Standard tuning for guitar.

End Notes

William Brandes. Sandusky, Ohio. Marketing. Website Design and Content Development. Hosting. Domains. All pro bono, since I cannot have outside employment when a resident of the Ohio Veterans Home. SO, maintain a few websites in order to keep my skills from rusting. Copyright: 2026.
Email: williambrandes@gmail.com. Telephone: 1-419-455- 6484. This is my Google Voice number. Leave a voice mail and I will get that voice as a text in email. Cool beans!