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andrewducker) wrote2003-01-17 12:18 am
andrewducker) wrote2003-01-17 12:18 am
And the days go by like snowflakes
Took today off work to take Erin to get laser eye surgery done. She was stressed and tense, so we ended up having a minor argument when my attempt to cheer her up backfired. We went through to Glasgow, met up with a photographer (because she got the Sunday Herald to pay her to write an article about it) and were all set when they decided to do one last test.
Which showed that her cornea is too thin for the operation to be safe. So she can't have it done. Ever.
She's been looking forward to this for as long as I've known her, and they just whisked it away from under her feet in 30 seconds.
She held it together while the photographer left, and then we went into the toilet and she cried on my shoulder for about 5 minutes and pulled herself back together.
Needless to say she was then miserable for a couple of hours, before ushering me out the door so that she could get drunk with Andrew (an old friend of hers). I was ushered off to gaming because I don't actually drink hardly at all and have a tendency towards disapproving looks towards drunk people. A tendency I've tried to rid myself of with little success.
So I went over to Hugh's and gamed for a bit, which was very good fun. I'm still very unsure about the world we're gaming in. Our behaviour feels very locked down, to the point where I feel like I'm going to have to do a load more reading before I can act in a character and stay within the code of honour (it's Legend of the 5 Rings, set in Rokugan which is taken heavily from feudal Japan)
And now I'm off to bed. And I hope tomorrow is a better day than the morning and half as good as the evening.
I'd be happy with that.
Which showed that her cornea is too thin for the operation to be safe. So she can't have it done. Ever.
She's been looking forward to this for as long as I've known her, and they just whisked it away from under her feet in 30 seconds.
She held it together while the photographer left, and then we went into the toilet and she cried on my shoulder for about 5 minutes and pulled herself back together.
Needless to say she was then miserable for a couple of hours, before ushering me out the door so that she could get drunk with Andrew (an old friend of hers). I was ushered off to gaming because I don't actually drink hardly at all and have a tendency towards disapproving looks towards drunk people. A tendency I've tried to rid myself of with little success.
So I went over to Hugh's and gamed for a bit, which was very good fun. I'm still very unsure about the world we're gaming in. Our behaviour feels very locked down, to the point where I feel like I'm going to have to do a load more reading before I can act in a character and stay within the code of honour (it's Legend of the 5 Rings, set in Rokugan which is taken heavily from feudal Japan)
And now I'm off to bed. And I hope tomorrow is a better day than the morning and half as good as the evening.
I'd be happy with that.
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About three years after contact lenses became relatively standard, I went to my optometrist and was checked to see if contacts would suit me. He told me that because I had a minor astigmatism in addition to being nearsighted, no contact lenses would address my vision problems, and that I was definitely going to be stuck wearing glasses for the rest of my life.
A year later, I was wearing contacts that corrected the problem just fine.
Rule #1: Any definitive statement of "X will NEVER happen" should be taken with a huge boulder of salt. I bet 9.5 out of 10 optometrists, if asked 10 years ago whether it would someday be possible to correct people's vision by "editing" their corneas with a laser beam, would have said "Of course not. That would be incredibly dangerous. And no one would choose to have that done."
Rule #2: The state of the art is constantly changing. Myself, I'm not having my eyes fixed because I still consider the process too new; we haven't yet seen the long-term health problems associated with it. But within a couple of years, I'll probably consider it safe, because the technology is advancing so quickly. It's entirely possible that in the foreseeable future, there will either be finer lasers capable of dealing with thinner corneas, or, who knows, maybe a cornea-thickening medical regimen. Stranger things have happened.
So yes, it's a huge blow now (and an annoying professional setback, I would think) but it's not necessarily forever.
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But let's face it. I'm not on your friends list, nor is anyone on my friends list. So it looks like you hit "random journal" a few times and stuck that link in. Which is _definitely_ abuse.
However, if I complained, it'd probably lead to you getting banned, and you actually seem to use your journal.
But other people won't be as forgiving.
I'd be careful.
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Anyone who posts randomly with links that end up with me having to click no to a query box asking do I "always want to trust content from Gator corporation" deserves everything they get.
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It's absolutely beyond me why it would be worth annoying 709 people in order to make a counter on a web page somewhere display a higher number. That just goes beyond arrogance and well into infantilism.
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But I can't think of a way to impose _partial_ sanctions against the person. If I could I would. Reporting them to abuse would probably get them banned.
Tell you what, I'm friends with a support person, I'll chat to her tonight and ask her what she thinks.
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No, you're an insensitive, selfish twit. There's a difference.
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Time to take a holiday?
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This leaves me with 3.5 days to cover until the 15th of March.
And I also have to move house in the next month, so I have negative cash on hand.
It's going to be a stressfull month or so.
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(Anonymous) 2003-01-17 08:54 am (UTC)(link)no subject
I'll point her at this ce soir.