Three-Letter Acronyms & Four-Letter Words

There was a contact lens on the end of my finger though mind you.

So, I am getting new lenses in my glasses. However, I lost my spare pair of glasses a while back. So this means that I would be left without the ability to see anything. Obviously, not cool.

The Dr. Donna Shepard over at Austin Vision Associates was kind enough to offer to put a pair of contact lenses into my eyes for me. Well, she was not the one who helped me out today, her husband was. (Pretty sure that he is her husband.) He made me put in the contacts myself.

Putting them in was definitely a bit of a pain. I tried probably a total of about 10 times on the right eye and a good five or six on the left before getting the lenses in.

Of course, then he wanted me to practice taking the lenses out. He made some comment about not wanting me to have to go to the emergency room at 10pm at night. I should have asked him why, I would have to go to the emergency room. I mean, I am pretty sure Gina could help me get the lenses out of my eyes.

Anyway, after watching me struggle with putting them in, and the many (at least 4 or 5 per eye) attempts to remove them, he was kind enough to pop them into my eye. He made it seem, so so easy. I'm talking about like 15 seconds or less per eye. He had to do the left eye twice, but the right eye he nailed it the first time. I mean sure, he is a trained physician who knows the ways of the eye, but I would wager the external perspective helps too, when trying to land the lens on the tiny globe that is my eye.

Regardless, they are in and I can see. Of course the funky bit is that the contact lenses are for my new prescription so not only can I see without having glasses sitting on my face. I can see better than I could with my old glasses.

Mind you, I think he pulled a generic pair of lenses, because they are not 100% correct. There is a slight variance in the prescription between my left eye and my right. I am pretty sure it is my right eye that is stronger than my left.

While I am seeing clearer than with my glasses, the far end range of my vision is still too blurry to properly read small print. The feeling of having something in your eye, is funky. I hope that my glasses are back tomorrow, but in all likelihood they won't be available until Wednesday. So that means that I will be stuck wearing these until then, meaning that I will be taking them out tonight and putting them back in the morning. Oh goody, that should be a fun 30 minutes in the morning (15 minutes an eye).

I need to pickup a pair of cheap sunglasses, that way I won't be blind while I wear these contacts.

The next few days will let me know whether I am destined to wear contacts on a regular basis or not.

At this exact moment, it isn't looking too pretty.

Time to wolf down my lunch and watch a little Daily Show.

Laterz

Once again I am faced with the fact that I have neglected my blogging. Course, I am not the only one

Work has been busier and busier, so I haven't had the opportunities that I usually do to log during lunch. I mean, if I managed my lunch hour a little bit better I could watch clips of The Daily Show, eat my sandwich and blog. Maybe I will try that tomorrow, course I still haven't quite learned to chew bubblegum and walk at the same time.

Jeremy is back in town.

He picked up a copy of Halo2 the other day at Fry's. We saw some videos on YouTube on some pretty impressive Lego Mindstorms the other day, so yesterday we went to Toy's R Us to see if they had any kits. Well, as with most sought after items Toys R Us was found to be lacking what we wanted.

Anyway, off and on over the last few days we have been playing Halo 2 after work, I have been lucky enough to beat him more often than not. However, he is getting better, while I am more or less just staying at the same skill level. However, neither of us are anywhere near being what one would probably call "Good".

I bought Stratego a few weeks back. We played a couple of games of it last night, I won them both. I hadn't played that game in probably 15 years or so.

We played a game of Scrabble after that, Jeremy beat me.

I brought my laptop home tonight and decided that I would boot up and blog a little while I am on the couch. Unfortunately, I am fairly I cannot bring myself to work on the specs that I should work tonight. I have been writing up specs for the last two days. While not overly, overly detailed specs it has taken a toll on the old mind. Especially since I have been fielding other requests here and there, interruption while writing specs or documentation tends to be more of a drain than one would usually think.

Anyway, I brought the laptop home thinking I would work a little bit, but that doesn't look like it is going to be the case.

I bought "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" the other day. I had seen that there was a new Bablyon 5 DVD a few weeks ago and had spent the last few trips to Target and Wal-Mart looking for it. I finally found it at Best Buy, otherwise I was going to have to buy it online.

I have it on the TV right now. So far the storyline of the first lost tale is building, nothing critical has happened yet. I am not sure how the tale is going to play out just yet.

Anyway. Let me tell y'all a little bit about what happeneed this past weekend.

I dragged Gina out of the house on Saturday. (Pretty literally.)

The original idea was to drag her out of the house grab breakfast and maybe see SuperBad. However, that isn't how it played out.

We ended up going to The Salt Lick for lunch. Now, going to the Salt Lick from our place up here in Cedar Park is like an all day adventure, particularly since we didn't leave until about 10:30 almost 11:00. We had a good time at Salt Lick, we stopped on the way to pick up some Beer and Wine Coolers, since the Salt Lick is BYOB.

On the way out of the Salt Lick I saw that they had a small easel setup with these little maps to some wineries around there.

One of the little maps had something interesting on it "High Quality Olive Oil".

Gina and I have had some great olive oil from this place up north, a Spanish olive oil. (I can't spell the name of the place, but it is like Fugarelli's.)

So, we decided that we should follow the map and see where the adventure leads us. We ended up at this little ranch where they make their own olive oil, cold press, right there on the premises. They even grow most of their own olives. It is a working cattle ranch that also grows olives and grapes (for wine), they make their own wine on-site as well.

The olive oil was fantastic. I mean it is hard to describe, but as cheap as I am let me tell you I had no problem paying $19.99 for a bottle of olive oil that is probably about 1/8 the amount of olive oil that I get from CostCo for $10 or $12.

Anyway, they had some very interesting boutique type stuff too, mustards, jellies. However, the interesting thing was the balsamic vinegar, they infuse it with pears or lemons. We bought the one with pears. We also bought a couple of bottles of wine, a bottle of Sangria and a bottle of Tejanti.

It was a fun time, we made it home at about 5:30.

Well, I am getting sleepy, so best that I call it quits on the blogging for tonight.

Till tomorrow, while I blog, eat and watch The Daily Show.

Laterz

The tropical kind, like the one that built up in the Gulf (of Mexico) and is hitting land near Corpus Christi (TX).

It has brought some needed rain here to central Texas.

Don't get me wrong, we have had plenty of rain this summer. But the problem is that it has been coming all at once. Combining the heat and the soil composition of much of Texas all of that water just runs off. It can't sink deep into the ground as quickly as it has been arriving.

So the occasional shower is what we need, probably at least once a week or maybe twice a week. The whole rest of the time it could be sunny and nice. Or if it just wanted to do that thing where it rains at night. All for that one. The wife loves its and well I am asleep so the gray skies don't bug me.

Anyway, Jeremy is coming into town on Sunday. So it will be interesting if the weather sticks around for his arrival (and afterwards) like it has on previous visits.

Not a lot has been going on, I was in Dallas the last couple of days.

I have a conference call in a little bit, so I just wanted to get a post up since I haven't in a while.

Back to the grind.

Laterz

My iGoogle homepage says that is 99 out. However, it has to be even hotter out than that.

It is 77 in the kitchen right now, but that is also because Gina was using the oven earlier.

I had to run to the store to get some pasta shells so that Gina could finish making dinner. We also needed some Ice to I hit the 'Ice Shack', I don't know what else to call it. It is this little building, similar in size to those tiny espresso shacks, but without the clerk.

You walk up, insert your $1.75 for a 16 lb bag of ice. You get 20 lbs of ice if you have your own container to put it all in.

Anyway, I know this is Texas. SO not really whining, just reporting that Texas summer has come. I am pretty sure the last two days are the hottest we have had this summer.

Maybe I bitched about the rain just a little too much. I would love if it just poured for an hour right about now.

Laterz.