Everyone knows how important vision is to me. And so it should come as no surprise how upsetting it was to me to lose a bit of mine today. We were going shopping and, as I got out of the car, it occurred to me that there was a crescent shaped area in my left eye's field of vision that .... wasn't working. It was as if I'd been staring toward a bright light, leaving that part of my vision temporarily blinded.
Well, so we went shopping and came out and it had not changed. I told Michael about it and he suggested that we drive on over to Dr. Howard's -- my optometrist's office. We called and they said to come right over.
After taking a history and doing several tests and taking pictures of my retina, Dr. Howard showed us a portion of my retina where there is a little U-shaped detachment-style defect. It is still early enough that neither she nor her opthamologist consult thought that it needs to be taken care of right away. I'm going to be seen by the opthamologist on Monday.
In the meantime, I'm supposed to continue on as normal and just not get hit in the head.
Friday, June 23, 2006
Crumpled Paper Tutorial for Photoshop
Weekend is almost here! They are predicting great weather, and we have big plans for both days. I'll blog about it after it's done.
I wrote and posted a new Photoshop tutorial today -- Crumpled Paper.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
It's summer!
It's officially summer! And Mother Nature marked the day with big storms for us this evening. Flash-boom lightning, lots of rain, and really dark clouds are all we got though.
We enjoyed our evening with my brother and sister and families yesterday at Gray's in Mooresville. Robert and Molly drove down for a 3-day visit from Minnesota. It was great to see them and to hear about how well everything is going for them. Annette and her family were, as always, lots of energetic fun.
Today the roofers wrapped things up, we paid them, and we have a nice new roof. YAY! As nice as these guys were, it's always good to have our house back to just us. The worst of it was Tuesday, when they were up pounding on it all day long, from 9 am till after 9 pm.
Personel problems ate up much of my day today. The rest of the time I spent working on email, student work comments, and ... I finished my Week 3 lesson for Fix Your Photos with Photoshop. Soon I'll have enough of the class finalized that I can write up a description and post it. My not having it finished or advertised doesn't stop people from signing up for it already. :)
At the gym, they have a closed captioning crawl across the bottom of the screen. I get near the TV with the morning news. There is usually at least one funny error on this crawl during our exercise. Yesterday they tried to tell us the minutes of drive time. For "minutes," they used "mix," "Inmates," and "enemies" in different places.
Today's funny was when they were telling us about how Zocor is going generic. "The generic will be available at your farm sisters," they reported. Hey I know... take your laughs where you can get them though, right?
We enjoyed our evening with my brother and sister and families yesterday at Gray's in Mooresville. Robert and Molly drove down for a 3-day visit from Minnesota. It was great to see them and to hear about how well everything is going for them. Annette and her family were, as always, lots of energetic fun.
Today the roofers wrapped things up, we paid them, and we have a nice new roof. YAY! As nice as these guys were, it's always good to have our house back to just us. The worst of it was Tuesday, when they were up pounding on it all day long, from 9 am till after 9 pm.
Personel problems ate up much of my day today. The rest of the time I spent working on email, student work comments, and ... I finished my Week 3 lesson for Fix Your Photos with Photoshop. Soon I'll have enough of the class finalized that I can write up a description and post it. My not having it finished or advertised doesn't stop people from signing up for it already. :)
At the gym, they have a closed captioning crawl across the bottom of the screen. I get near the TV with the morning news. There is usually at least one funny error on this crawl during our exercise. Yesterday they tried to tell us the minutes of drive time. For "minutes," they used "mix," "Inmates," and "enemies" in different places.
Today's funny was when they were telling us about how Zocor is going generic. "The generic will be available at your farm sisters," they reported. Hey I know... take your laughs where you can get them though, right?
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Weekend travels
On Friday, we drove up to Indy to get Michael some new shoes. But before that, we stopped off to walk around a bit at the White River Garden. They have their butterfly exhibit going on now and we just love that. I took some pics and I'll post some when I get on my other computer tomorrow. :)
So we made it up north to Runner's Forum. Michael decided that his "old" shoes were giving him too much arch support. While they were "curing" him of walking on the outside of his heels, they came to the conclusion that you don't take a 63 year-old guy and try to teach him how to walk! He was tearing up his knees in order to save shoes. How dumb is that? :laugh: His knees felt instantly better when he put on his new Adidas shoes!
After the shoe errand, we went to Shapiro's and then to Handel's for ice cream. Mmmm :) And thanks to daylight saving time (the only good thing that our governor has done), it was still light when we got home.
Yesterday we went to Nashville, Indiana where we did a little shopping, getting some things at the Life is Good store, J.B.Goods. Lupper at the Nashville House and then a trip to the Nut House and Michael's knees were ready to call it a day. I walked back, got the car, and spun around, picked Michael up in front of the Nut House, and then we headed back to Bloomington.
On NPR yesterday, there was an author who said that a person should write as if all the people they know are dead. Made me think...
Rain, sun, rain, sun! That's what we had today on our way to Louisville and back. We had a pleasant visit with George and Angie and then went to the California Pizza Kitchen for supper. We love their Fusilli with Broccoli and Sundried Tomatoes... with chicken! We get one bowl and then share it. We also shared a Caesar Salad, something I've recently decided that I like.
So we made it up north to Runner's Forum. Michael decided that his "old" shoes were giving him too much arch support. While they were "curing" him of walking on the outside of his heels, they came to the conclusion that you don't take a 63 year-old guy and try to teach him how to walk! He was tearing up his knees in order to save shoes. How dumb is that? :laugh: His knees felt instantly better when he put on his new Adidas shoes!
After the shoe errand, we went to Shapiro's and then to Handel's for ice cream. Mmmm :) And thanks to daylight saving time (the only good thing that our governor has done), it was still light when we got home.
Yesterday we went to Nashville, Indiana where we did a little shopping, getting some things at the Life is Good store, J.B.Goods. Lupper at the Nashville House and then a trip to the Nut House and Michael's knees were ready to call it a day. I walked back, got the car, and spun around, picked Michael up in front of the Nut House, and then we headed back to Bloomington.
On NPR yesterday, there was an author who said that a person should write as if all the people they know are dead. Made me think...
Rain, sun, rain, sun! That's what we had today on our way to Louisville and back. We had a pleasant visit with George and Angie and then went to the California Pizza Kitchen for supper. We love their Fusilli with Broccoli and Sundried Tomatoes... with chicken! We get one bowl and then share it. We also shared a Caesar Salad, something I've recently decided that I like.
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