Well alrighty then...
I had a post in mind, another episode in the new book, but it seems my eyes are dilated. (Okay, my eye surgeon did that during my annual post-op check. Wasn't a bolt from the Heavens...)
I really thought they'd recover quicker, but they did not.
Tough to see, tough to type.
It also seems that Chrome is misbehaving badly on my machine.
Using Edge for the moment.
Sigh...
As Buck used to say, "It's always something..."
Back tomorrow, once my eyes return to normal.
a number of us have started using Dissenter browser
ReplyDeleteUnderstood, however after nine years on this platform it would be a time sink to move elsewhere. And I really have no desire to move.
DeleteOh Noes!! Cocaine eyes! Sarge what have you done?...........couldn't resist, sorry.......:)
ReplyDeleteHahaha!
DeleteWhat some people will do to get out of writing duties...
ReplyDelete(Hope you get better quickly!)
Oh yes, just call me "slacker!"
Delete(And thanks, all better now.)
Now is the time to dig under the bed and other dark places for stuff you lost. I get mine done at least once a year now, too. It is amazing how much light is out there when you get those drops.... This old earth suit was designed to live here, no doubt.
ReplyDeleteI always feel like hissing at the sun when my eyes are that dilated.
DeleteThe old eyes just don’t recover from dilation as fast as they might’ve when we were younger.
ReplyDeleteOn the bright side, I don’t need to turn on any lights to read afterward.
True, and I was able to compete with the cats in the "walking around in the dark and not running into things" competition.
DeleteUgh! Those are ever the worst days.
ReplyDeleteA fair amount of others seemed to have issues with Chrome yesterday. I use Brave; for whatever reason no issues.
Your Obedient Servant, Toirdhealbheach Beucail
Yup, sounds like a code change was released that screwed things up. Happens a lot with the new breed of computer programmer, their tools are more powerful than their capability to use them. Like giving a five-year-old a loaded machine gun.
DeleteIt was cleared rather quickly.
THBB, I'm with you on Brave. Majority of my search engine use is Duck Duck Go. Only when I'm getting no returns to I go to the G word then it's with Proton VPN and TOR. But that's just me being paranoid. But...I have to ask myself....am I being paranoid enough?
DeleteNothing on the Internet is safe, but yes, you can pick your poison.
DeleteMine have a reverse issue. Upon stepping into the house my eyes take longer to adjust to the lower light level.
ReplyDeleteAnother age thing I'm sure, there are so many.
DeleteTrue, but the alternative is worse.
DeleteRoger that.
DeleteAs we age we lose things we took for granted like eagle eyesight and sleeping through the night. As Juviat points out, the alternative isn't too attractive.
ReplyDeleteAin't that the truth!
DeleteYep. I used to have eagle vision. Man, 20-20 just sucks. How do normal people handle it? Not being able to read road signs until you're right on them, stuff like that. Miss the eyes of my youth.
DeleteDefinitely.
DeleteI have never had a successful use of Chrome. I found it, every time I've tried, to be a kludgy pile of dog squeeze.
ReplyDeleteI remember the olde dayes, whence young techno-mages practiced simplicity and elegance in their programming spells, as even large processors doth raneth rather slowish. Now? Any programming seems to be slicing and hacking chunks of old programs, other programs, together to make huge, bloated, kludgy programs that only run well on the faster machines with huge memories and small animal sacrifices.
Like MS Office, in any of its varieties (Office 2007, 2010, 365 (yeah, trust cloud storage, yeah...) or even the free Office that MS is offering. I've been a fan of Office from, well, the first time I used MS Word after using Word Perfect. Things were so much better on Word. But then the kludginess creep occurred and, well, bloated toad.
Now? The new (to me) computer came with LibreOffice 7.1, freeware and it kicks MicroSerf's arse. Back to being an elegant suite of easy to use and very compatible programs that are just nice.
Sorry about the eye. Last eye appointment was 'the big yearly checkup' and I ended up wearing sunglasses in my normally overly darkened pad until bedtime, around 5am (weird hours what with wife's weird schedule.) Bleh, squandered youth, yada-yada.
When do you ship off to Califrutopia?
Out to the West Coast around mid-July.
DeleteAh, the vision of an addicted, obsessive author. Damn fine one, to be honest.
ReplyDeleteHowever, as much as we REALLY enjoy all your writings, and eagerly look forward to each installment, you have no obligation to provide us with a daily fix to satisfy our own addictions.
If the Muse wants to go out to lunch, or a day at the Muse spa, or visit relatives, that's all cool with us. And, covered by our full money back guarantee for what we pay for the free "work in progress" edition.
So, we look forward to what we get, when we get it, when you feel like scribbling it, and are not distracted by physical shortcomings, or the necessity to perform evil work for actual financial compensation. Above all, family first!
THANK YOU for what you do for us!
John Blackshoe
PS- I really like the start of the new series! Great opening- right up there with "Call me Ishmael." or "It was a dark and stormy night."
Thanks JB. It really is a labor of love.
DeleteREJECT NORMAL!!!!! Go for the X-Ray Vision!!!!! See the underlying whateveritis!!!! Why have normal eyes dammit?!!
ReplyDeletetongue firmly in cheek.
Get better soon.
All better now, just an annual thing. Doc is making sure my eyesight doesn't go completely to Hell.
DeleteWhat's the fort in the new masthead? Ticonderoga? (or whatever it was before we stole it from the French?)
ReplyDeleteYup, that's Ticonderoga (Carillon if you're French).
DeleteBy the way, love your new avatar, it has a certain flair...
Auto-correction again? ;-)
DeleteNice picture though, both of them.
DeleteJuvat #1 - No, I chose "flair" to be clever. Perhaps I failed?
DeleteJuvat #2 - I concur. 😁
DeleteMiss Jeanie is getting drops for her cataracts procedure. Have all the old here thought of that? Most marvelous operation ever. Wonderful! I had it years ago in my youth around age 68.
ReplyDeleteGlad your peepers are working again sarge. And don’t worry about frequency. As John Blackshoe says, “what we get when we get” we’re happy.
Happily Mac since 1984. ;-)
LtFuzz,
DeleteLosing my sight and losing my mind are two of the few things that scare me anymore. Everybody gets to die, some deserve it more than others. Glad you both are doing "acceptably" on my two concerns.
Dave - Had the cataract surgery a couple of years ago on the same eye which malfunctioned enough so that I had to have surgery to repair it. The first surgery was intense, made the cataract surgery look pretty tame, both were done by really good docs, I have no complaints.
DeleteAs to frequency, I like to keep the posts flowing and it's irksome when something gets in the way.
All better now, new episode tomorrow!
Juvat - Same here!
DeleteEver thought about dictating your posts? I've done that a few times, then just go back to edit once I post it in blogger. Makes for quicker work if the muse is on duty.
ReplyDeleteI've thought about that, but it doesn't feel like it would go well with the way I write. (In fits and starts!)
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