I can see you again
It's been busy the last several weeks. KA's graduation, jury duty, trying to scrounge enough work to afford the down time of jury duty, blah, blah, blah. Jury duty had me worried, one trial that I ended up in the potential juries pool for was estimated to take three weeks; the judge let me go when I told them I didn't think I could afford that much no-income time. The roughly 2 hour bus trip each way didn't help, slicing 12 hours out of a day would have made it near impossible to do any work.
But the topper was late last week. I was clearing out a backyard, hacking out blackberries and moving chunks of concrete and trash that were underneath. I'd grabbed a load of chopped-up vines and turned to carry it away, when I discovered that the foot I was trying to swing forward was snared in a vine. Being a bit off balance, with that load of vines as extra weight, I went down. I managed not to face plant on the rubble but having my glasses fly off and bounce under a hand as I was landing. Snapped them in half at the bridge, in a splintery fashion.
With my poor vision, without correction things are in focus maybe 4 to 10 cm in front of my eyes, there's not a lot I can do without glasses, so this was Not A Good Thing.
I walked home and taped them up, but there's just not enough there to tape well. It was late enough that the nearby hardware stores were closed, so no glue that day. The next day I got to the hardware store and got some "5-minute" epoxy, got home, cleaned and glued them halves. The 5 minute term means you need to hold the pieces together for 10 minutes, then carefully set them down and ignore them for an hour. That sort of worked, but I couldn't get 100 percent alignment of the two halves - there's some image doubling - and they just don't fit right - they tend to slide off if I tilt my head much looking down.
Spent much of Monday and Tuesday looking for replacements. No one local carries frames that will match my lens and separation/spacing, partly because lens shape style has changed and partially because the lens materials have improved and current lens are noticeably thinner. But new lens run about $400, which I don't have right now, leaving me to do a lot of things with one hand keeping the glasses on my face.
It was hot-for-the-PNW1 earlier in the week, which lead to sweat-lubricated-glasses-sliding to the point I couldn't use the computer or do much else. Luckly it's cooled down enough that the FFC (Facial Friction Coefficient) is high enough that I can keep the glasses on.
As a result of all this, I am majorly behind in reading LJ and other online things; I need to spend some hours reading back through the friends list. In news that I missed : Bush Names New Interior Secretary
And it looks to be a uninteresting election season, for Google informs us that Your search - "hot nude republicans" - did not match any documents.
Your search - "hot nude democrats" - did not match any documents.
Looks like time for a third party...(2)
Off to see what everyone else has been doing.
(1) I use the cat temperature scale, based on the number of cats encountered per city block: if, when I go walking and it is not raining, and no cats come running up to me while walking 4 blocks, the it is Too Hot. A pleasant day is in the 8 to 10 cat range.
(2) As the country is controlled by the Liberal Main Stream Media, and given the shows I've seen bits of on the more conservative side of the LMSM (Fox), combined with the most popular Internet search terms, I assume that any party that can get the most hits using the phrase "hot nude {political party affiliation}" will win elections.
But the topper was late last week. I was clearing out a backyard, hacking out blackberries and moving chunks of concrete and trash that were underneath. I'd grabbed a load of chopped-up vines and turned to carry it away, when I discovered that the foot I was trying to swing forward was snared in a vine. Being a bit off balance, with that load of vines as extra weight, I went down. I managed not to face plant on the rubble but having my glasses fly off and bounce under a hand as I was landing. Snapped them in half at the bridge, in a splintery fashion.
With my poor vision, without correction things are in focus maybe 4 to 10 cm in front of my eyes, there's not a lot I can do without glasses, so this was Not A Good Thing.
I walked home and taped them up, but there's just not enough there to tape well. It was late enough that the nearby hardware stores were closed, so no glue that day. The next day I got to the hardware store and got some "5-minute" epoxy, got home, cleaned and glued them halves. The 5 minute term means you need to hold the pieces together for 10 minutes, then carefully set them down and ignore them for an hour. That sort of worked, but I couldn't get 100 percent alignment of the two halves - there's some image doubling - and they just don't fit right - they tend to slide off if I tilt my head much looking down.
Spent much of Monday and Tuesday looking for replacements. No one local carries frames that will match my lens and separation/spacing, partly because lens shape style has changed and partially because the lens materials have improved and current lens are noticeably thinner. But new lens run about $400, which I don't have right now, leaving me to do a lot of things with one hand keeping the glasses on my face.
It was hot-for-the-PNW1 earlier in the week, which lead to sweat-lubricated-glasses-sliding to the point I couldn't use the computer or do much else. Luckly it's cooled down enough that the FFC (Facial Friction Coefficient) is high enough that I can keep the glasses on.
As a result of all this, I am majorly behind in reading LJ and other online things; I need to spend some hours reading back through the friends list. In news that I missed : Bush Names New Interior Secretary
And it looks to be a uninteresting election season, for Google informs us that Your search - "hot nude republicans" - did not match any documents.
Your search - "hot nude democrats" - did not match any documents.
Looks like time for a third party...(2)
Off to see what everyone else has been doing.
(1) I use the cat temperature scale, based on the number of cats encountered per city block: if, when I go walking and it is not raining, and no cats come running up to me while walking 4 blocks, the it is Too Hot. A pleasant day is in the 8 to 10 cat range.
(2) As the country is controlled by the Liberal Main Stream Media, and given the shows I've seen bits of on the more conservative side of the LMSM (Fox), combined with the most popular Internet search terms, I assume that any party that can get the most hits using the phrase "hot nude {political party affiliation}" will win elections.