OWIE!!! I certainly hope to follow your advice, Rysto. It sounds very sound!
I hope there isn’t any permanent damage, and I don’t want to know how it happened. Really, I can sympathize without hearing the details.
There is a very important (for people in my field) training seminar happening at the end of the month. Its 5 days of 8 hours of classwork each day, very intense. I am really REALLY looking forward to learning what is being taught. The classes are highly desirable and there is a very long waiting list.
When I was notified that there was an opening, I instantly snapped it up.
Then I read the conformation letter and realized why there was an opening. Most times its held in interesting places. This time, its being held down south in Sticksville. The best that anyone has to say about Sticksville is that there is a good Mexican restaurant. One.
I have driven through Sticksville several times and never once saw a reason to stop. There is a library, but my card isn’t good out of my county. I already know that the free wifi that comes with hotels is usually worth what you pay for it. There are no museums or cultural things there.
My life is going to suck so much for that week. Pity me. (Or point and make fun of me over first world problems. it doesn’t matter, I already know that they are first world problems, but I’m still all verklempt
Amazon has a new commercial for their “Alexa” service where a guy starts a fire in his house.
It’s reassuring to know that my dogs know to bark like crazy when they hear a smoke detector. At least it was, the first time we heard this ad this afternoon. 10 times later? It’s sounded like a damn kennel in here all night, and then my husband starts yelling at them, and I expect a few more rounds during the football game.
Please stop, Amazon. You already have all of my money.
When going through a divorce and your offspring says, “I’m not sure if I’m supposed to tell you this, but dad…” you can be certain of two things:
1-You really need to know the end of the sentence
2-You really aren’t going to like it.
Well here’s the thing: I have no idea how I did it. None. I woke up Thursday and my eye was super itchy to the point of almost painful. I thought it was an allergy attack, but it was awful enough that by the end of the day, I swore that if it wasn’t better Friday morning I’d go to the doctor.
It wasn’t better the next morning. Pretty sure it felt worse. Then after I left my apartment building, I noticed that my vision from the eye was blurry. :eek:
I spent the day getting bounced from the GP to the emergency room to an eye specialist. I was trying not to think about this very hard at the time but the emergency room doctor got me an appointment with the specialist like 90 minutes later, so they were pretty worried that it could be something serious like an eye infection.
The eye is expected to heal up fine. It’s already feeling normal now, so I guess it heals super fast. Thank god, because Friday was an utterly miserable day. I do seem to have lost some distance vision in the eye but I already wear glasses, so fixing that will probably just mean getting my prescription updated.
Get yourself a universal remote, and hide that near where you sit. Or get an app for your phone that lets it work as a TV remote. Then just look all innocent when it goes mute.
Or, if you’ve seen 'em often enough, offer to recite the lines of the commercial for him. Or make up new lines for the commercial. Getting your children doing this can be quite entertaining!
One of my former coworkers just posted a lengthy Facebook rant in which she blamed Hillary Clinton for her (coworker’s) husband’s affair and their subsequent divorce. I’m stuck wondering if she’s always been crazy, or if this is a recent development.
I’m supposed to get up at 4:30 tomorrow morning to catch a flight for a short holiday. I was up at 5:30 this morning for the kennel to pick up the dog so I’m pretty bagged and not looking forward to getting up even earlier tomorrow. So great timing for the smoke alarm to malfunction over and over and over. …waiting for the alarm guy to turn up when I’d rather be sleeping :-/
Oh, now I get it! I could get a universal remote, but Amazon wants me to buy one of their crazy interactive devices so I can just shout “Alexa! Mute!” to quiet the amazon commercials. The cruel irony.
Now if they would just make one to mute the puppies and anyone they annoy we would be all set.
tenacious j,
If you have a smartphone, there are apps available for free that allow your phone to work as a universal remote. It works great for my SO and I.
Totes feel your pain on the pups barking at the TV. Someone(s) at the house decided (neither SO nor I) that it would be super if my lab would bark every time the doorbell rang. Want to guess how much fun other people watching Wheel of Fortune is? :smack: Also, I had no idea that the doorbell rang on The Golden Girls so dang much until my sweet pup would wake up from a sound sleep because the doorbell rang on that show. We don’t watch that before bedtime anymore.
I live in a big city, with a big population. Lots of us come from elsewhere in England. Or Britain. Or the world.
Procedures vary from NHS trust to NHS trust. And from country to country.
So when I, as an immigrant, call you to ask how to proceed in this particular area, please do not treat me like I am some kind of moron. In France, I could just call the specialist. Here I cannot, and need a referral. As I discovered when you bothered to tell me how to proceed.
This is just down right horrifying. My fear of damage to my eyes is strong enough to be called irrational. I can’t put contact lenses in because of fear of harming my eyes. This despite the fact that millions if not billions of people happily wear contacts every day.
The idea that someone can go to sleep and wake up with a scratch on the cornea is enough to keep me up nights.
I’m glad you are recovering well and hope that you never do it again. I also hope that I have learned enough from your experience to never EVER scratch my cornea while I’m sleeping. I’ll just stay awake worrying about it instead.
There are many things you can do when driving which make me (a driver in a different car) nuts.
But probably my biggest peeve is people who obstruct traffic when they discover they are in the wrong turn lane. (Rather than following directions for the lane they are in and finding a parking lot or side street to turn around).
Tonight’s wrong lane anti-hero–henceforth Wrong-- was in a straight ahead lane, to my right, but wished to turn left, just like me and the car to my left. (And actually, I don’t think Wrong made a mistake. I think he decided he didn’t want to sit behind me and however many others were there and so drove right up next to me). I was puzzled as I drove into the intersection by the behavior of the car on my right, until I decided he was trying to merge into my lane and we weren’t co-operating.
And then, over the next mile or so, I observed what appeared to be the same car switching lanes about every three cars and otherwise zipping down the road in an unsafe manner.
Look, Wrong, I don’t know where you were headed in such a hurry, but I want you to know that you were putting other people’s lives at risk, and I don’t approve.
Some sixty years ago, the little girl who grew up to be kaylasmom attended a sleep-away school for the blind. One of the things they wanted to teach the toddlers was to not rub their eyes in their sleep (which is what causes sunken-eye syndrome in some blind people that you see these days). The solution (as she it described to me – I was never able to visualize it) was to attach her hands to some kind of pole or broomstick when she was put to bed. It pretty effectively prevented her from putting her hands near her eyes as she slept.
The school is still around, and still soliciting donations from us a few times per year. If you like, I could contact them, and ask them to teach me the technique that they used with her, which I could pass on to you.
Alternatively, have you heard of a novel called Gerald’s Game?
Sorry flatlined, I didn’t mean to scare you. As kaylasdad99 alludes to, it was likely due to rubbing my eyes, either during the night or just after getting up. It’s possible that the itchiness the first day was actually an allergy attack and I scratched my eye by rubbing it too much. That would explain why I didn’t notice the vision loss until the second day.
I have no idea which of the fuck Trump threads to put this in so I will dump it here. Keep in mind, I am not religious and I want religion out of my government.
Some redneck asshole made a viral video about how everyone is a sinner, and anyone condemning Mr. Trump’s recently unearthed comments was a hypocrite. He went on about glass houses etc. for a minute or two and concluded with (of course) he’s still better than Hillary.
Normally I’d ignore it but it was reposted by a few people I know and love who are very religious and sincerely well meaning. I commented on one person’s page with a link to the Christian Post, which I know she reads, condemning Trump for never asking for forgiveness and complete lack of contrition.
Her response (and her friends backed her up):
It doesn’t matter if he behaves like a Christian. What matters is he’ll keep the laws Christian.
TL,DR- this election and the inevitable whining and impeachment efforts can’t be over soon enough.
