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First off, thought I'd share a few photos I took after take-off on Tuesday evening. The weather up and down the East Coast was a little iffy that day, but it cleared enough for us to get from BWI to PVD (Baltimore to Providence for you non-air travelers).
The air crew kept everyone in their seats for the hour-long trip as it was expected to be bumpy. Didn't feel bumpy to me, but what do I know, flying on C-130s prepared me for this. I guess. The co-pilot apologized for the bumps when I thanked him for the ride.
I said, "Come on, that wasn't bad."
He started to speak, then saw my USAF retired hat, decided to let me live with my delusions. Flight attendant found the exchange amusing.
At any rate, it was a lovely evening and I enjoyed the ride. Even on a commercial airliner, once I'm in the air, all the nonsense falls away. (Put me in a middle or aisle seat and you better be ready to sedate me, argh, but I get cranky). At the window, I'm "out there" in the clouds.
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At one point I counted three layers of cloud, one well below, broken as you can see below. Then there was the layer we were in and out of during the trip. When that layer got broken I was "cloud surfing." Though more fun in daylight, it's fun at dusk as well.
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There was another layer, well above our altitude (which I think was announced as 36,000 feet, give or take an angel). All in all a delightful flight.
In Other News ...
Had my left eyeball polished Friday afternoon ...
Uh, what?
Okay, not really. After cataract surgery things can get cloudy again, the doctor uses a laser to clean things up, sort of. Well, this explains it better -
Posterior capsulotomy (or YAG laser capsulotomy) is laser surgery you might need sometime after cataract surgery. It helps you see clearly if your vision becomes cloudy again.When you have cataract surgery, your ophthalmologist removes your eye's cloudy lens. They replace it with a clear, artificial intraocular lens (IOL). The IOL is held in place in the eye’s natural lens capsule. Weeks, months or years later, this capsule can become cloudy or wrinkled, causing blurry vision. This is called a posterior capsule opacification (PCO). It’s also sometimes called a "secondary cataract" or "scar tissue." With posterior capsulotomy, a laser is used to make an opening in the cloudy capsule. This allows light to pass through again for clear vision. (Source)
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Now the left eye is a lot more clear. Still doesn't focus well (and it never will after the retina was damaged a few years back) but it's way better than it was.
For that I am thankful.
Truly.
More tanks on the morrow, need to rest that sensor.
Be well.
¹ Avec mes excuses à J.R.R. Tolkien (Weren't expecting French, were you?)
Ah but you had far fewer adventures on your trip than what Mr. Tolkien related Sarge. Just be on the lookout for any groups of bearded, axe carrying short folk........:) Good to hear the old Mark I eyeball has been brought back to spec.
ReplyDeleteThe difference in my vision is striking. I am pleased with the outcome.
DeleteThe idea of having someone "work" on my eyes scares the you-know-what out of me, what if it get's worse? I expect that in time I'll have to come to grips with the need to get worked on if I want to continue to see.
DeleteI know what you mean. But it isn't that bad. Left eye has been through three procedures. Being blind is far worse!
DeleteI was busy expecting the Spanish Inquisition!
ReplyDeleteNo one expects that ...
DeleteSarge, having flown as much as I have over the last three years (quickly counts...something like 40 round trips. Yeesh!), I have come to really appreciate some of the clouds that I have seen. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
ReplyDeleteI do think that now flight crews overcompensate with the "bad weather warning" rather than get caught by the irate passenger who was "never warned".
Rest the eye (that machine appears to be a torture device). We will patiently be here waiting.
'Ware the irate passenger!
DeleteLordy....It must be 30 since the last time I flew. San Diego to San Francisco. My wife flew in 2003 to go to Ft. Benning for her son's graduation from AIT (He'd already been in the CA National Guard for a year). That was in and out of Oakland CA. It was fun sitting, wating, and watching the TSA people check people through.
ReplyDeleteWatching people in airports can be very entertaining.
DeleteEspecially if you super glue half dollars to the floor.
Delete🤣🤣🤣
DeleteIf I ever get rich, I will try that.
I miss flying. I do not miss being in hordes of people being treated like cattle with hoof-in-mouth disease. So I'll watch videos and live vicariously through people like you.
ReplyDeleteI need to get Mrs. Andrew to the eye doc. When the heat breaks and she doesn't overheat just by getting near the door (one of the side affects of her brain-vein-pop in 2009 is lack of heat tolerance) I'll get her to get her right eye taken care of. And if that goes well, then her left.
I, too, prefer window seats. Gives you a reference point to understand what's going on.
Eye docs are good, for a while I had three - one regular, two specialists.
DeleteI too enjoy window seats. Once I flew the last leg of a business trip from MSP to GFK with my boss and a student (that was not a fan of flying) in that high wing German plane with four engines (looks like a miniature B52). He booked us for seats just where the fuselage widened from two to three seats so he could stretch his legs, with a magnificent view of the inboard engine on each side. The student (in the opposite window seat) was not happy with the steep climbout, the solid thump of the landing gear retracting right under our feet, and the sudden throttleback for noise abatement. An opportunity not to be missed. I leaned over to my boss "Ask her if that engine is still leaking oil"? Nose print on the window. Then a glare at me that would have paralyzed a shark.
DeleteGood times.
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