Fiberrant

I can’t marshal my thoughts into coherence, and there’s a lot to cover. So let’s try bullets.

• I came home Thursday night to find beautiful daisies from Lisa. How wonderful, unexpected, and such a lift after a horribly long day! Thank you, sweetheart! I say “horribly long” because of the length, not the day. It was a pretty good week, actually. Not that I knit at all, or spun. Though I did predraft some more of the lovely brown lambswool I’ve been spinning lately. And hopefully will be spinning more of today.
• Great book on the iPod: The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield. An absorbing Gothic story, though it’s set in this century, full of plot twists that are surprising but make sense. I’m almost done – no spoilers please! – and I think I’ll play the whole thing over again. Though there’s a couple by Jodi Picoult that I haven’t heard yet.
• Technology continues to amaze me. I had an eye appointment yesterday. Mindful of the drops, and the sunny day, I’d made contingency plans for Paul to drive me home. But no need! This cool machine took pictures of my retinas, which came out clear & healthy – so no need for drops.
• I had to be quite emphatic with the optometrist, that I need to see my computer screen clearly. I spend 12 hrs a day staring at the screen, and it Must. Be. Clear. Without. Straining. We finally decided on toric contacts to correct my astigmatism, plus intermediate-distance glasses. I’ve had a toric lens before, for my worse eye, and man! it was expensive. They still cost a bit more, but 24 of them (a year’s supply) is about half of what a single lens cost in 1995. They didn’t have the second lens in my prescription, so I have to be patient. Not my greatest strength. Once the lenses come in, I’ll have another session to get the eyeglass prescription right.
• Continuing the TMI theme, more falling-apart-as-I-get older news: I have a new BFF, my new dentist. We’re going to be spending “quality time” together, in his words. A root canal has been scheduled, and the crown I got ten years ago has to be replaced (thanks to an imperfect seal, causing the underlying tooth to decay more). Plus replacement of virtually every filling done by my last dentist, he of the imperfect crown. Do these things normally not last? Or was the last dentist a hack? I’m only truly pissed about the filling that cracked (and now requires the root canal). There’s one more cracked filling, but we can’t tell from the X-ray if the tooth is shot – it’s hidden by a filling in the side of the tooth. But that one isn’t hurting right now, so we’ll take care of the bad stuff first.
• Now all I have to do is make that appointment with my GP. The transition from “young and healthy” to “high maintenance” is not fun.
• Big weekend plans. Hiking in Letchworth Park; washing and sealing the deck; buying and planting annuals; and hopefully a little spinning. Plus I’ve got to go into the office for a server reboot/backup software issue this evening.