<----- (You know, I always thought their white spots were a lot whiter than that).
Anyway, I'm taking a little break from my best book ever. My eyes are tired! On the computer all day week long, and reading every day at lunch and in the evenings. I really need to see the eye doctor -- sight has become a major pain in the ass issue. I've always been near-sighted (since about 4th grade) so I've always worn either glasses or contacts for seeing in the distance. In the last few years, contacts drive me nuts because my eyes have apparently dried out, so contacts (yes, the soft ones) feel like shards of glass rolling around in there. Also, the near-sighted correction now makes it impossible for me to see anything up close. I see much better up close without any eyewear correction at all. However, my last eye doctor proclaimed that I needed bifocals, and I think that is just hog-wash. No way can I see my computer, my book, a menu, or anything up close with these so-called bifocals. I'm constantly taking off my glasses (for up-close stuff) and putting them back on (for far-away stuff) -- kind of the opposite of what most people my age are dealing with. At any case, we can all relate to the librarian with the chain attached to her glasses. I wish that wasn't so dorky. I've always thought it was, and certainly attributed it to codgerism, which I don't want to be! But I do understand it. I'm thinking what I actually need are glasses that have plain uncorrected glass in the bottom part. I wish that lasik surgery would solve the whole problem, but I don't think it would. I'd be in a bad state with corrected vision for distance, but not being able to see diddly up close. (Then would definitely be the time for the chained reading glasses). I'd truly be a codger.
Gee, did I beat that subject to death or what?
Well, this is my "Friday night"! Yay! I feel like I've packed a very full 5-day week into these 4 days. Ugh. We got out a couple of hours early today and a whole bunch of us went to Billy McHale's for Happy Hour after work. It was fun -- for the first time I tried a Long Island Iced Tea, and it was nummy! I need to get a recipe for that. I know they are pretty dangerous, though. However, I didn't really feel it all that much, probably because I'd had a big salad at lunch. (?) One gal had three of them and went to order a 4th and she was cut off! (She was pretty indignant). We were all sitting in a corner of the bar, and I was sitting in a booth across from my work girlfriend, Di, and one of the geeks geeks slides into the booth beside me, which was fine because it was one of the only places left to sit, but then he started spewing all this Rush Limbaugh crap and pissing and moaning about the Washington governor election (after the 2nd recount, the democrat has now been certified by 130 votes) and he was ranting and carrying on about the exact same thing that all the republicans were accusing the democrats of doing when the republican won the 1st recount by 42 votes, and I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT WANT TO HEAR IT. I was thoroughly disgusted. This was not the place and not the time for it, and I shot him the meanest look I could muster (not that he noticed) and TUNED HIM OUT. What a dweeb. Get a life.
For poor JDub, this isn't Friday night. (Although he's had almost a full week of Saturdays, so he shouldn't complain too much). He has to go to work tomorrow for a special project he's working on, which means OT, which is a good thing. He's thinking that it might not be a full day, though. We were hoping that there might be snow in the mountains this weekend, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen. The ski resorts are hurting bad! I'm thinking that this is the latest it's been for the ski resorts to not have snow. I'm sure they have always-always-always had skiing open over Christmas, if not Thanksgiving! Who says there's no such thing as global warming? (Well, I'm sure the dweeb mentioned above would argue it until the cows came home -- all parched and sweaty).
Hey, I donated for the tsunami disaster via one-click at Amazon (for the Red Cross). Charity Navigator provides information on all the charities regarding what percentage of their funds actually go directly toward the the people in need, and rates them based on this, and other things. Red Cross rates four stars which is the highest, as does Mercy Corps, which is a local-based (Pacific Northwest) foundation that my favorite journalist, Margaret Larson, quit broadcast journalism to join full time. (I miss seeing her on the local Seattle news -- she also used to be on prime time NBC before moving here from New York), but she is a wonderful spokesperson for the charity and I greatly admire her. I plan to donate to Mercy Corps, too. The magnitude of this tragedy is beyond comprehension. I am truly heartened by the stunning number of donations made by regular American people this past week.
OK, my eyes are really tired now. Duh.