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.

Sunday Night

We had a great time at Casey & Heidi’s party on Saturday. Tons of good food, close proximity to the beach and a 1/4 keg of beer combined with fun people leads to a good time.

There was one tragedy though. During the party I walked up to the liquor store with Len and I happened to pick up a Starbucks Doubleshot, the pure essence of ice coffee. back at the party, I showed it off and was about to drink it when Zoe had an allergic reaction to the cats and I had to leap into Dr. Daddy mode.

She had rubbed her eye after touching the cat and it was swelling up. I cleaned her up, gave her an anti-histamine, and calmed her down. When I returned to the back where I had left my Doubleshot, it was gone. Alas, I fear another guest drank it. Drank my precious…

On Sunday I completed the upgrade of Michele’s computer.

She’s now running an AMD 1700+ on a ECS mobo with a new Maxtor 60 Gig hard drive with Windows XP. It’s smooth as glass. She’s happy. I’m happy.

The girls start camp tomorrow. We went to a parents meeting today at 5 to introduce Mira to the counselors. Zoe and Mira are both quite excited. Michele is a bit pensive over the whoel thing. She wants them to go to camp, but she has all the normal worries a mother would have the day before camp starts. I’m sure once they come home happy and smiling all will be better.