I post!  I know, crazy.

Life is busy lately.   I find when I have something that might be worth blogging about here that I quickly find I'd rather take that precious, precious time and use it another way. Say, sleeping, for example.

So what's new?  The item of note: I was diagnosed with Central Serous Retinopathy in my right eye earlier this week.   Fluid has collected behind my retina, creating a something like a blister.  In my eye.  Under the retina.   It's right in the center of my vision, so it's not exactly something I can ignore, or not notice.    The result is an odd shaped distortion in my vision (metamorphopsia).  It's something like trying to look through a drop of water.  In my case this 'drop' is also reducing color in the affected area (chromatopsia).   And I believe I'm experiencing more frequent headaches due to eye-strain (it's almost impossible for me to read with that eye, and I sit in front of a display just about every day).

I've been experiencing the effects for about a week and a half now, and it's slowly getting worse, which the Eye doc said could happen.    There is no treatment.  Good news for me is that the majority of the time CSR resolves on its own in several weeks.  I certainly hope so.   



On otherwise unrelated fronts:  
Work is work - good, busy, and new things are coming down the pipe.  There's never a dearth of problems to solve.
Cam is great.  He's growing incredibly fast, and most of the time he's a happy kid.  How is that not great?  =)
Home is home - borrowed some Wii games from Mike recently, and have been playing quite a bit of Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 again.  I completely replaced my PC gaming controllers when my Logitech mouse began to fail (MX700, you were a faithful companion and I'll miss thee).   Running with a new Logitech G5, a Razer eXactMat mouse 'plate' (no joke - it's a piece of anodized aluminum with a "speed" side and a "control" side.  It's kinda crazy), and a Merc Stealth gaming keyboard.  All good stuff, and all taking some getting used to.

And that's what I have today.  We're fine, we're all fine, here, now, thank you. How are you?

 

This entry is me ranting at tech/geek stuff. It's likely to not be important to you in any way whatsoever.

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I'm nothing if not fairly consistent.

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/sillies.php?d=20080913

Goddammit! Spore just crashed on me. Like an Iranian fighter pilot over Tel Aviv.
I'm guessing I lost about 3 hours worth of work/play.

(I don't post in over a month and it takes a game crashing [badly, I might add] to get me motivated to post something here. That probably says something about priorities, but I've no mind to think it through at this time.)

I've had several nudges now to post something.
In short - I'm still around. I'm here, and I'm reading everything (just not in a timely manner). I'm crazy busy as of late.
I'll try to get something a bit more substantial posted "real soon now". No promises on when that might be though. As I said - crazy busy.
Thank you, that is all.

I just tore most of my toenail off my big toe. There's blood, and pain, and all that. Not a lot of blood or anything, but still. I stepped across my right foot with my left for some reason, and snagged the toenail with my footwear (I'm wearing teva-like sandals today).

Sonuva...

Got some photos from my dad from the tornados that hit this area on 5/22/08. They're available online.

The first one was apparently taken from the State Farm regional HQ as it was about to his the Swift facility. The rest are images of some of the aftermath, etc.

Could not have happened to a better person.
http://kotaku.com/5010087/judge-says-jack-thompson-guilty-of-misconduct-during-gta-bully-trials