This really has little to do with Halloween - just a subject line that popped out ( Read more... )

When I arrived home from work on Friday, my internet connection was down - which also means my telephone was out (I’m a Vonage customer). I felt quite out of joint. At first I thought the whole internet was out, but then I started unplugging and re-plugging connector wires. Finally everything came back to life. Don't know if my unplugging and ( Read more... )

Everyone's life has a rhythm to it - ups & downs, daily routine, hours and hours of the same interrupted by moments and upheavals of the unexpected. I've had a couple of the latter recently that either re-energized or changed my life - possibly both ( Read more... )

Returned from Portland, Oregon, this past Monday - late - arrived at the airport at 11:04 pm, then waited for the SuperShuttle van for about 30 more - and was home around midnight. Thankfully I didn't have to go to work on Tuesday. In fact, I'm off for the rest of the week. Had thought about some day trips - to the San Antonio area - but with ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to enter a post, but mostly sit and stare at the blank entry box ( Read more... )

It's been over a month now since the cataract surgery. All went reasonably well, except my right eye was a bit fuzzy. The doctor said it was not unusual - something about stray eye cells forming a film over the eye. Had to wait a month for my eyes to heal, but last week I went in to "have my lens polished ( Read more... )

I finally got to see Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites - an opera I've wanted to see for about 30 years - thanks to a substantial IRS refund that made it possible to pay a very exorbitant price for a night at the opera ( Read more... )

Well, the 2nd cataract surgery is over and mostly done with. For better or worse, the right eye hasn't healed as nicely as the left eye did. I woke up in the middle of the night last night and all was entirely black. I turned over and looked out the window and could see lights with my left eye, but nothing with my right. I was just a tad ( Read more... )

This has been a week of rediscovering how things look in focus - through my left eye anyway. Since my right eye is not yet "fixed," the view has been rather unbalanced. Even walking is sometimes tricky, especially on stairs. But it's still an exciting view - sort of a preview of things to come. I haven't abandoned by glasses entirely. It still ( Read more... )

My left eye has now been "fixed." At the post-op exam this morning, my left eye tested at 20/20 and the doctor said everything looked good. So good, in fact, that he wants to schedule the right eye for next Monday, instead of three weeks from now. Fine with me ( Read more... )