Category: Weblog

Happiness

In a test of TrackBack, I refer to my brother’s post Dot-coms to hot-dogs? on his site.
He’s talking about how many previously rich dotcommers are now finding jobs in less high tech, more service sector areas like selling food. Matt seemed to think this sounded gloomy.
My response was:
“Well I don’t think it’s so entirely depressing. America is unlike the rest of the world where wealth often takes precedence over personal time.
The rest of the world seems to be having much more fun and taking many more vacations than us.
The real question is are the people happy in their new jobs. If so, then it’s probably a good thing. Life is short. Far too short to waste most of your time focused on a bank balance instead of a balanced life.”
Maybe I just need a vacation…

Funny

Here’s the funniest thing I’ve read on the net in a while:

“I think fanfic writers rank just below Everquest players and people who design webpages about their cats.”

-Squidward, on fark.com

A thin piece of plastic

Readers of this page will probably remember the trouble I am having with my eyes. Since April, I’ve struggling with my eyes due to keratoconus and the fit of my special contact lenses. By wearing the ill-fitting lenses, I got a corneal ulcer on my left eye that took a few weeks to heal.

The company that makes the special lenses I wear stopped production at about the same time. I never got a straight answer why they stopped production. When I finally got a new set of lenses in the first week of July after a three month wait, they didn’t fit. This was a ‘very bad thing’ because it meant I was going to have to order new lenses once again. Now I’m told that they may have them by the end of the month. End of the month? That’s a two month wait and there’s no guarantee that these will fit either.

Since April, I’ve been functioning only seeing out of my right eye. Glasses can’t correct my problems. I can wear glasses for a short one to two hours before I start getting a headache. It’s pretty much impossible for me to wear the glasses for an entire day. I’ve tried, and it just doesn’t work. Driving with my glasses is dangerous at best. I done it a few times to the supermarker a quarter mile away, but I would never try it on the freeway.

Seeing the world out of one eye is a pain, but not impossible. Half of the world is blurry to me. I have to be extra careful driving due to my reduced field of vision and the lack of good depth perception.

The real worry to me is if I lose or damage the contact in my right eye. If I can’t wear that contact, I effectively become blind. I wouldn’t be able to drive. I would barely be able to use a computer for more than an hour. Work would very tough If I couldn’t see for much of the day. While many others in the world have much larger crosses to bear, not being able to see clearly would have a huge impact on my life.

So it’s all down to a thin piece of plastic. As long as I can still put the plastic contact in my eye, I can function in the modern world. If something happens to that contact and I can’t wear it, my life will grind to a complete halt. What would I tell work? I can’t come to work because I’m blind?

Until the new lenses arrive, I simply have to have faith that the lens will last. Faith in a thin piece of plastic.

Blogtree

I’m waiting here for some guys from Corp IT to show up, so I think I’ll goof off for a few minutes. This weekend I saw a post about blogtree.com. It’s an interesting way to show the linkages between different weblogs.

You can see the Cruft entry by hitting the icon below.

So if you run a weblog that was inspired in some way by Cruft, you can register and add me as the parent. You can search on ‘cruft’ or use the blogid, 800. I think it would be very cool to see how all the weblogs interact.

Even if your weblog isn’t inspired by Cruft, go register.