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January 07, 2004

Odds and Ends, Bits and Pieces

* Eli (my nine year old) has been going to the school nurse frequently lately due to "blurry vision". He says that every once in a while, his vision goes all blurry and stays that way for several hours. We had an eye appointment on Monday and the optometrist said that he is moderately far sighted. He said that the blurry vision happens when he has been concentrating on close up stuff (like hunched over school work) and then has to suddenly look up to the blackboard. His eyes are then not able to compensate. Ugh. He will have to wear glasses all of the time now. We went and picked some out - no matter what style he tried on, he looks like Harry Potter hahahahahahaha. Anyway, picked out some cute glasses. Price tag? $200 (and yes, that was about the cheapest). There will be no icicles allowed anywhere near those glasses.

* Today, I had a wild hair to take down the Christmas lights immediately prior to going to work. The Navy housing provides each house with an Italian kaleidascoping ladder. It is the coolest thing since sliced bread. You can adjust it to about fifty different positions. The only problem is that it weighs about 80 pounds and it is difficult to adjust the size by yourself. I do everything by myself. I was trying to wiggle the side pin out and put my hand on one of the steps to steady the ladder (you know what is coming don't you). The whole thing crashed down and guillotined my hand. It was heartstoppingly painful. My whole arm was numb for almost four hours afterwards but was not obviously broken or bruised or swollen. I decided that I would have it xrayed because the pain was not getting any better despite motrin and ice. Then it occured to me that "holy shit" I can't have a cast and go skiing in two weeks! Fortunately for me, it is not broken. Yeah. Darwin award for me.

* Ice storm for my friends in the Northwest. I have been hearing about it for the last week or so. This never happened while I was there. I am sort of happy and sad at the same time. The guys would have really enjoyed all that snow and the snow days off work and school would have been fun. But, I do not miss the antics of the folks who mistakenly believe they can drive on sheets of ice (and I have been one of them). Anyway, my friend and former coworker at the Recruiting District sent me these pictures he took today at his house in Vancouver, Washington.

Posted by DebC at January 7, 2004 11:40 PM

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