Eye exam. Originally scheduled for last year, pushed back as the doctor decided to take a holiday vacation. No cataracts, no signs of glaucoma. The blurred vision is because my left eye is weaker than the right and my standard glasses need to be changed.
I left the office with disposable sunglasses as blurred vision was at maximum. Good thing the vision center was only a mile from my home. I took the day off from work and it was a good thing as I had a splitting headache and couldn't focus for a few hours.
It was dark 7 hours later when I went grocery shopping and bright lights from car headlights had a slight blue 'edge' when I blinked. I'm thinking that was a reaction from the eye drops.
Hopefully, I'll be back in business tomorrow.
I see a long-time member who doesn't come here often is online now...
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A few times a year a profile will show up with a young woman photographed holding a weapon. Typically, she's in military fatigues with a high power rifle complete with scope.
Sometimes it's the sexy version wearing survival shorts, tank top and bandolero style belt and a bunch of armor piercing bullets.
Without fail these profiles all fall into the category of bogus and the latest one used stolen photos of a woman who is in the Norwegian Air Force.
Why so often? I believe the scammers think it attracts a different caliber of man, unlike the ones who chase after the models with 10 pounds of breast implants.
Hey look... it's Rambo's little sister...
Girls with guns...
This Tuesday, February 1st, 2022 marks the Chinese New Year.
Depending on who you ask, it has different pronunciations and interpretations.
"Happy Chinese New Year" in Mandarin is: xin nian (new year) kuai le (happy)
Pronounced shin nee-an kwai le.
The Cantonese version is sun nin fai lok- pronounced san knee fy lock.
Many people associate the Cantonese phrase Gong hei fat choy as happy new year, but it's actually a wish for prosperity to the person you say it to.
In Mandarin Chinese, it’s Gong xi fa cai (pronounced gong she fa tsai).
Either way, millions of Chinese will be up in the middle of the night cleaning house and preparing for a celebration and to some that lasts for a week!
There are 12 Chinese zodiac signs and the Tiger is known as the king of all beasts in China and the zodiac sign for Tiger is a symbol of strength, exorcising evils, and braveness. Many Chinese kids will be wearing hats or shoes with a tiger image for good luck.
2022 is a year of the Water Tiger. It starts from February 1st, 2022, and ends on January 21st, 2023. A Water Tiger year occurs every 60 years.
So kung, mung, sung, young or however you say it... Happy Chinese New Year!
Actor Howard Hesseman who played Disc Jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the TV sitcom ‘WKRP in Cincinnati has passed on. According to a story, he had complications to colon surgery from last summer. He was 81.
He was the highlight of the show and I'll always remember him as the off-beat coffee drinking late night DJ on WKRP.
No. Admit it, that's just a bullshit line and you have no intentions of quitting.
I read a comment today that reminded me of working for a South African guy who used the phrase "He doesn't know shit from shiola" That's not how I first heard it and I'm sure something got lost in the miles from America to South Africa. He probably heard it from a few distant relatives.
Let's go back a hundred years or so where George Melancthon Wetmore invented boot polish in the form of paste that sold in round tin cans under the name of Shinola.
In America, it was pretty commonplace to describe someone of lesser intellect who doesn't know 'shit from Shinola'
The Southern version is not knowing the difference between 'shit and apple butter' where they add the explanation 'he had to smell it to see with one to eat'
Yesterday, a young associate of mine said "Catch you on the flip-flop" and I asked if she knew what that meant. Her response was no and I explained it referenced CB radio jargon where truckers who frequented the same roadway would greet other truckers coming and going. One heading east and the other heading west might pass each other on the return trip back home.
Actually, it's not Anderson Cooper. It's only a guy in Texas using Anderson's stolen photos.
I'm on a YouTube marathon this weekend and cleared cookies before coming to CS. Checking new members (before logging in) shows profiles of men and women. After I log in it only reflects profiles of women.
Ladies, if a guy who looks exactly like Anderson contacts you... it ain't Anderson.
I'm sure women in America know this, he might have a chance with a woman outside the US who haven't watched US news broadcasts.
I blogged about the business reporting service called YELP where people can do reviews about their experiences with local companies, restaurants and professional services.
I recommend taking the reviews 'with a grain of salt' as many are spawned out of anger.
Last year I booked an appointment at the eye doctor for a yearly exam. I missed the previous year due to COVID. The company is listed on my insurance and they have several offices in South Florida with one about a mile from my house. Expecting the service to be covered in 2021, everything was good until they called to reschedule because the optometrist decided to take a vacation. I got bumped to January.
Too late to find another service, I agreed to the 2022 date. After the exam, I didn't want to wait to order glasses as there were 5 or 6 people in front of me. Checking their website, there was another center a few miles from my office. I made an appointment and went through the process of explaining what I wanted and didn't want from a new pair of glasses.
All I wanted was a simple thin black frame slightly taller than the readers I've been using for many years. It would be a progressive lens set mid height as most of the time they will be used for computer use. I didn't want the lenses coated as I found the finish deteriorated after a year and the plain lenses lasted 3-4 years. For some reason they only showed me a more expensive frame made from stainless steel.
I paid the balance after the insurance credit and told they would call me in 2 weeks.
After the 2 week wait, I called them, but no one answered the phone so I left a message... a few days in a row. This required a visit to the store to pick up my new glasses. For some reason they couldn't find my order. I didn't have the receipt with me so I got their email address and would send a copy for them to trace the order.
I found the receipt but looking carefully, it didn't have my name on it. The receipt for the credit card transaction was attached. I scanned this and sent it to store.
Not hearing from them, I returned to the store where the receptionist said they mistakenly used another clients name on the order. Okay, where are my glasses?
She told me they were ordered yesterday when I came it. My response was to cancel the order and refund my payment. They did.
I'm thinking about all the bad reviews this place had. Why didn't I listen?
Yeah, I'm the one telling people to check the Yelp reviews and avoid the ones that consistently get bad reviews.
I was surfing some guitar sites and hit a Pinterest page with mug shots of famous singers/musicians.
Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, ___, Kurt Cobain.
I didn't recognize the one before Kurt.
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I got up to temperatures down to 42 degrees in my county and the counties north of me are under a frost advisory. Yeah, I know that means nothing to people who actually get snow.
My brother in Dayton, Ohio called yesterday to tell me about 17 degrees and snow.
It's time I do some planning for my future. COVID changed my plans of buying houses/condos in need of repair, doing renovations and selling/flipping them for profit.
House prices are off the scale and if you actually find one it's a bidding war to get it.
So my direction must change and I need to see the advice of a certified financial planner.
By coincidence, one of my clients is in the business...
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