Sold an old mixing desk on eBay.
Collection only. To a guy whose address is in London. I’m not hopeful the person read the listing and doesn’t appreciate that he’s a 3 - 4 hour drive away.
I could be wrong.
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Had to take one of my (three) cats to the vet today. She hadn’t had any water in a day or two, and stopped eating completely.
Kidney problems and heart murmur. About $2-4k for treatment, overnight emergency observation (today is day one, $250/day) for 2-3 nights, and then… questionable recovery followed by a remaining lifetime of medication and special treatment in the best case.
I have firmly locked the emotions required to deal with this behind a wall for the next three months. Bean will hopefully recover enough that we can spend at least a bit more time with her, but one way or the other I do not have the spare cycles to deal with this right now. I’ll worry about it when I have my imminent emotional breakdown (around January, if the fates continue on their current course).
Whee.
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Hoping for a speedy recovery for Bean 
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Oh man, all the best for Bean. I know she’ll be surrounded by lots and lots of love!
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I had an eye test today and apparently my eyesight has improved? I didn’t even know that was possible!
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“Improved” or “better” often means different (I judge depending on what my patient wants to hear!).
So if you’re long sighted (hyperopic), there are a few reasons why you could become more myopic (short sighted), so your prescription is closer to zero (poorly controlled diabetes, or a type of cataract for example). Your prescription would be lower (improved) but your sight wouldn’t be better.
A short sighted person having a hyperopic (long sighted) shift is also getting better. Than can happen as the lens thickens. It can shift forwards slightly and reduce your prescription.
Another reason (which I get) is that my colleague is lazy and can’t be bothered to shift the smallest line down on the chart, so I often find people see “better” in my room but don’t in real life.
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I’m short-sighted. I think it’s just a general improvement as my prescription is back to what it was in 2014.
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I am very short-sighted, and in my teens I used to be most summers in the beach without glasses. Very often, my prescription not only did not worsen through summer, but improved a little bit, to then get worse during the winter months, where I was more time indoors.
My optometrist then said there was no reason behind it. Was he right?
There’s pretty convincing evidence that time spent outdoors as a kid reduces the incidence of myopia. The evidence about whether it’s bright light or looking at more stuff further away is less clear. This is pretty new thinking, and still controversial (and against the western conventional wisdom).
My own vision has gotten less myoptic as I’ve gotten older. (like two diopters less myoptic in the last ten years). Sadly that’s coincided with the loss of accommodation, so I need glasses to read. (When I was a kid, I could lie down, open a book, and put it on my nose, and still read it. )
My current problem is I ahve some sort of aberration in my right vision that looks sort of like a have a greasy fingerprint on my glasses. I saw an ophthalmologist who tells me it’s not a cataract, and the eye looks good through a slit lamp microscope. It’s still pretty concerning.,
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There is increasing evidence that outside play is associated with a slower progression of myopia and more inside work with a faster progression.
We’re certainly seeing more kids being short sighted earlier post lockdown.
There’s a strong inherited link as well.
Really excitingly there are now products (a contact lens and a spec lens) that are designed to slow short sighted progression in teens. My eldest has the specs.
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Have you had an OCT?
We’ve just got one and it’s allowing me to diagnose stuff that I couldn’t see without it.
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I have glasses for long-distance (mianly used for driving or if just walking - I find them quite annoying if I’m regularly looking quite close to me) and glasses for reading but I don’t need anything for middle vision. So its annoying that I have two pairs of glasses. Couldn’t afford bi-focals or the combo ones at the time! May well have to if my vision gets worse
I am near-sighted, so I have glasses for distance, which I have to take off these days if I’m trying to read something small near my face, like serial or part numbers on components. I feel like I did not used to need to do that.
My back is KILLING me today. Ouchies.
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Wednesdays are the agile-meeting-marathon days and today we had sprint change over so it was meetings all day long. But yesterday a big chunk of stuff fell into place so we could actually finish a piece of work that had been dragging along for many weeks if not months now and even though I mostly watched someone else put on the finishing touches it felt pretty great.
PS: I’ll get to all my games but possibly not today… these meetings as good and helpful as they are are tiring–technical review, product owner review, retrospective and planning all in one big chain even with a few breaks is just a lot.
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Kiddos are off to grandparents, I’m off on a weekend jaunt of games. Got to laugh at my sister for forgetting to pick up my nephew from his Dad’s before giving him a lift to work.
Life is pretty good today
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yes, they did a OCT, which was apparently normal. I am going back next week for a visual field test and something else.
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Hmm
I suggest searching for an “Amsler Chart” online (RNIB or Macula charities will have them). You should get simple instructions, but if you can find the chart but no instructions give me a shout.
Try that and see what the results are.
Looks like the lockdowns have made me more introverted. Play games, sure. Socialise? Well… with close friends, sure. I feel bad turning down someone who invited me for some bday drinks.
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I think the lot of us have to relearn some things that we used to do and took for granted.
Being forced to be able to “deal” with being around people less is sure to have an effect.
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