Yea, got the ol’ eyes checked today. Been 2 years since my last, and since I need new glasses to sell, figured I was due.
Does anyone know what it means when, sitting in the chair at the eye doc, you look down at the chart at the end of the room and only see black fuzzy shapes? Is that bad? Can you believe that some people actually have told me that there is a big assed ‘E’ on the f’ing chart? Right there at the top, about 1000pt. Hell, the damned thing could be 2000pt and I could be right up on it and it would still be a big black fuzzy bunch of nothing to me.
I know, I can’t believe they let me drive either. They do make me wear corrective lenses if that makes you feel any better.
Really tho, my eyes are so bad…
- I get claustrophibic in a dark room without my glasses
- Outside of about 2 feet, I can only distinguish light and color without my glasses
- Even with my glasses, my eyes are still so f’ed up with astigmatism, that my depth perception at night is just this side of non-existant
Yea, they let me drive at night too.
At least with my left hand (I’m right handed) I can write my name backwards. Without my glasses, I can’t do shit.
Anyway, new set is on the order and I should have them next week. In the meantime, if you see this mother f’er on the road…
get outta his way! He can’t see where he is goin’!
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I swear one of these days I’m going to get back on track.
Will be changing servers over the next few days.
If something appears to be a little wonky, you now know why.
About Linux…I’m giving up for now. After reinstalling Mandriva for the third time (probably due to something I f’ed up) and not at all digging Debian (5+hour install, and it boots to a command line? I don’t think so), I’m letting it go. I’ll go pick up a book this week and I’ll actually pay for a distro too. Maybe I’ll have better luck.
Mark those calendars!, taking cues from one of my new favoritest blogs, please note that this coming June 10th is db’s birthday. No gifts, just send cash or iTunes gift certs. Oh, and really, make the f’ing calendar about it remember to shoot me an email or something to wish me a day. After the f’ing year I’ve had, I think I deserve it!
After taking a few days off from work last week, plus yesterday (spent almost entirely with the lass), today and tomorrow, I think I’m just about good to go. All of my sidejobs are paying up which is a nice added bonus, the lad’s mom will be continuing her treatment at a location other than my house by the end of the week and things seem to be going well with the lass.
Sidejobs? Oh yea, I know I mentioned them, but just in case…there is the SoCal Viper Club website (see previous post) and a few week ago I went down to Cottonwood Cover Resort & Marina (where it’s always a better day!) and did a WHOLE bunch of work for them, least of which being the introduction of a 1/2 of the new T-1 brought down by the phone company into the network.
It went very well for the most part until I started loading up patches on 2 of the Win2K machines that run the reservation system. Seems the lackey’s that do the dev for them know there is an issue with one of the patches, but fuck if they know exactly which one it is. So, I had to uninstall a whole bunch of ‘em until everything started working again and then I turned automatic updates off. The best part? Doing some work on Mom’s machine at her desk, which is in the front part of the trailer that houses Dad’s office (no, it’s actually pretty nice) and Dad screams up “Don! What the fuck did you do to my computer!?!” Thinking he’s really mad or something, I immediately go over to find out what’s wrong.
You see, Mom & Dad were still part of the AOL dial-up generation. Hell, Mom would still be using floppies too if I hadn’t introduce them to zip drives. Some day they might even start burning CD’s too. Baby steps. Anyway, I digress.
I get over to Dad’s desk and he is absolutely blown away that he was able to send 3 emails, two of which had attachements, in less than 30 seconds. He thought that was neater ‘an fake knees, something he actually knows something about. Then I broke the news to him about the new high speed internet will actually save him time company wide on those people that are actually sending email as part of their daily duties. He asked how much and cried bullshit when I told him close to 5 hours a day! He’ll see soon enough.
And, since I’m just on ramble mode anyway, have you taken a minute to check out the greatness that is becoming Robot Shuffle? I mean, really. A forum, a photo gallery, blog with miniblog, The Bad Blogs and latest edition The Lab. Oh yea, plus jSchwa is now sharing his Garage Band tracks with us. They are totally worth checking out too by the way, especially his newest. Very cool stuff.
Ok, that’s all for now. And damn if I didn’t think of something else already!
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