I'm an idiot

[cornerofmadness]

Today I had my yearly eye exam. I got my contact case ready and my glasses then somewhere between the bathroom and my purse I got distracted and LEFT THEM. I couldn't have my eyes dilated and now I have to go back next friday. This is important to diabetics to have it done. My allergies didn't improve with the new solution much. He didn't have much good news for me anyhow but he didn't tell me anything I didn't know. I can't see distance well with my contacts at all right now but I CAN with my glasses. Two reasons for this: 1. the astigmatism in my right eye has gotten greatly worse and he wants to try astigmatic contacts in that eye (joy, they're harder to wear and with my allergies I'm betting I won't like them. They're also quicker to ulcerate a cornea and I'm prone to that as is) and 2. the left eye was under corrected so I don't need reading glasses, under corrected by a lot. we decided to half that under correction. Gah. (In more humorous news I had my Athens Asylum t-shirt on and he was telling me about how the insane asylum was his view out his dorm room window back in the day.

The head of my local writing group put this up at our site and I decided to do it. 12 day writing challenge

So in lieu of a writerly sunday (sorry but the last two sundays have sucked and you all know why) have my opening salvo

Day 1: Write 10 potential book titles of books you’d like to write. Well I'm not sure I want to write these all but here they are.
1. Centralia Still Burns (yes ELD this is where I got the one I foisted on you).
2. The Haunting of Hocking Hills
3. Moth Man Murders
4. A Man Called Wisdom
5. Shatter Me
6. Drops of Emptiness
7. The Long Drive Home.
8. Straight, No Chaser
9. Roses with Jeweled Centers
10. Italian at the End

I thought we all could use this for our novels. A Promotional plan

Speaking of writing I'm FINALLY getting off my duff and posting my fanfic around after 2 years of almost not doing it at all.

Yearly word count -

2241 / 110000
(2.04%)

And HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY to fireun Hope it was a good one.

I also wanted to start sharing music more regularly. I'm not sure I will have any witty insights into the songs I share but it will be stuff I like. Maybe make it a Music Monday. For today I bring Darius Rucker. I'm sure someone could make something out of me using him on Martin Luther King Jr day and as proof, read the youtube comments if you want your head to explode (seriously I wish they'd employ the same tech that cut-links all the comments on a lot of news articles nowadays). Darius gets it from both ends. He's an African-American Country music star. He gets it from other African-Americans for doing something so 'White' and from the Caucasians for treading where he doesn't belong. Several people seemed to be losing their minds because he has a white woman in his videos (I believe she's his wife and the kids in the videos are theirs). The comments prove how much further Dr. King's vision has yet to go.

All the political crap aside, I like Darius's music (and for the idiots who are screaming about the 'first and only African-American in Country...um no, you're wrong).

Watch on YouTube

Watch on YouTube

(this one is pretty poignant for anyone whose children are growing up too fast)

Watch on YouTube

Watch on YouTube

And yes there were others before Darius. The wonderful Charley Pride. (Yes, I am going to San Antone)

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

These people didn't know about Charley Pride? He was huge.

And you do realize that before Rucker turned to country, he had a chart topping hit as leader of Hootie and the Blowfish.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to think younger people know nothing that didn't happen 10 minutes ago. (I keep hoping that viral post from a Texas university where the students didn't know what the civil war was and when was faked)

Indeed I did know that. He's a very talented man (I also liked Hootie)

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

it may not be the 'end of days', but we're definitely well into 'the idiocracy'

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes we are

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I will try to get on the book titles tonight.

Ouch about forgetting to bring your glasses and all to the appointment. Bad enough going back to get your eyes dilated. One trip to see the eye doctor is plenty. I mean, how many times did I go back and forth last year regarding glasses and contacts?

After reading a2zmom's comment, I realize why I thought Darius looked familiar. Doh.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Good luck

Oh no kidding. I remember that. I have no one to blame but me. Mom is worried about me.

Yeah I didn't know it when I first saw him with Big and Rich back several years then started looking him up

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Are Big and Rich still doing stuff?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes but I haven't heard their album from last year

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I liked their appearance stuff. Should see what the library has.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

there you go.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Then there's Linda Martell, who performed at the Grand Ole Opry way back in 1969...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten her (I didn't like the older style of Country-Western.) Thanks for that reminder

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

that's right - I was just about to say, they obviously never heard of charlie pride. I grew up listening to him and all the old schoolers

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

exactly. Of course there was the dude who thought Kayne West was going to make this guy, Paul McCartney's career by singing with him with NO clue who Paul was

[0-mother-0.livejournal.com]

good lord... :/

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah that was all over the place on FB (the actual conversation was on twitter)