Call for Happy Things, again.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

must... resist... snide... comments...

[Entsuropi]

I remember when my cat was a kitten. Drove us insane having to keep him inside while his innoculations did their part.

[stacer]

Didn't you get a kitten once, stacer? And it totally turned out spastic or something? So you took it back?

Maybe I'm the one who is spastic. But I swear I remember you getting a kitten and then deciding against it...

It wasn't a kitten. It was a full-grown cat with behavioral problems and long hair, and I was currently out of money for allergy meds. So I continue to want a cat, but temper it with the realism of not being able to afford one--and the next one I get must be a kitten, and short-haired, so I can grow into the allergies.

[Chimera]

And so you can train it not to be spastic.  

[Chimera]

So I'm getting my LASIX eye surgery tomorrow at 12:30. Yay! No more contacts or glasses! I just hope everything goes well.

Wish me luck. Or, if you're religious, say a prayer for me that all will go well with the surgery. There really is no reason that it shouldn't go smoothly, but surgeries always make me a bit nervous...

I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully I won't be blind tomorrow.  :-/

[stacer]

Good luck! You are going to be experiencing something I have only dreamed of since the fifth grade--living without any vision aids.  

[fuzzyoctopus]

Well the newspaper job never called me, but I had a really great job interview today and they said they'd let me know by tomorrow afternoon.  It involves about a half hour commute, but the salary and benefits would be sooo worth it.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

wow. There are people who hesitate at a half-hour commute?

[stacer]

Yes, people who have never had to live in a place where a half-hour commute involves traveling three miles. The more distance I am from that, the more I wonder why I have a half-hour commute myself, though. It's much more interesting to sit on a train for a half hour and read than it is to drive. I've taken to listening to conference talks and books on tape, though, which is much more interesting than the radio.

[Skar]

Cool!  I too have taken to listening to books on tape for my half hour commute.  I just finished Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and just started Harry Potter 5. (not 6, 5)

[fuzzyoctopus]

Hey my commute was 17 minutes in Utah.  I just miss having all the cities in a straight line along I-15. Instead I have to take all sorts of random back roads and encounter street lights and Amish buggys going 15 mph and wait to pass them.  
But I recognize that it's really a very short commute as the world turns.

Ok, if I get the job I promise not to complain about the commute, and if I do please don't hesitate to mock me  

[Entsuropi]

I was for a week doing a hour and a half commute. I left the job since I realised there is no real point doing that, the job is nothing I can't get within half an hour.

But in London, one and a half hours is a standard commute I'm told. It costs MUCH more to live in the city centre itself.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Fuzzy, you're back in Ohio?

I'm happy that I'm getting over my cold.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I am well pleased that getting to work was cake.
Got in line, car was waiting for my destination. No traffic. In work early, blasting music.

[Chimera]

So I'm getting my LASIX eye surgery tomorrow at 12:30. Yay! No more contacts or glasses! I just hope everything goes well.

Wish me luck. Or, if you're religious, say a prayer for me that all will go well with the surgery. There really is no reason that it shouldn't go smoothly, but surgeries always make me a bit nervous...

I'll let you all know how it goes. Hopefully I won't be blind tomorrow.  :-/

I CAN SEE!

Things are still a little fuzzy (which will go away as the eyes recover, they tell me), but nonetheless when they tested me I was seeing at 20/20 vision. It is amazing to be able to see as well as I did with contacts--with absolutely nothing in my eye!

And now I will get off, because I am not supposed to look at a computer screen for a couple more days (it's very straining on the eyes). I just wanted to let you all know that the surgery went well and it's looking good.