The good news is

My right eye is okay. He thinks maybe I'm having an allergic reaction to the silicon they use in the newer contacts. He's given me older style contacts as a trial which...worst timing. If My eye swells up again I don't want it to be at this con. No glaucoma, no diabetic retinopathy (huge relief), no scarring of my cornea (also huge relief) They were offering pictures of the back of your eyes for 25$ (insurance no pay) Being diabetic with issues of control, I said yes. Might as well get a good baseline. Also there is a relief in looking at them and seeing no bleeding, no macular degeneration or optic nerve swelling. That said, my vision is shit and has gotten worse. I'm now roughly at 20/320 so no I can't see the big E on the snellen chart and without my glasses/contacts I'm legally blind. They couldn't give me the sample contacts at the right diopter. (they only had -.75 and I need higher)


But while I was in there a storm hit. It didn't last long but the drive home was filled with broken trees and the road was flooded and I was going to get dinner because now I can't see and I don't have a lot of food at home because I'm leaving for 10 days. And...the power was out to all the restaurants. Raptor shrieks. (had hot dogs because somehow I have packs of them in the freezer with packs of bacon as a shrine to bad choices.

Also I had to renew my plates and I about fainted when I opened the paperwork. They more than doubled the damn price. I pointed that out at the BMV and they said 'it went up but not double.' Oh really? Because I have it right here in my check book (ohio is stupid, it's cheaper to pay by check than credit card by like 10$) It was 34 last year and it's 66 this year so how is that not double? She couldn't answer me.

I did not have a good day today when it came to cleaning. I don't even know what happened. It was 11 AM and then suddenly 2 pm and I accomplished nothing. I'm annoyed at myself. I did pack my suitcase tonight while my eyes were dilated because I couldn't do much else.

Rocket had a banner night last night. he lined up three dead mice for me. Thanks buddy. Nothing like a sidewalk of dead rodents


Have fannish 50 the questions, I'm using Buffy for this

Day 3: Favourite female character. You'd think it would be Buffy but actually it's Willow. I saw a lot of myself in early Willow, like a lot. I was pretty much her in high School. I liked her a bit less toward the end (we're not even getting into Dark Willow, that was handled so badly) especially with the whole throwing Buffy out of her own house.

But I liked Willow alot. She was smart, loyal and funny. Alyson was probably a bit too cute to be the outsider nerd girl but otherwise I loved her.

And I will say this, I also liked Cordelia. Yes she was the mean girl and I had girls like her in my life back then and 40 years later I'm still pissed as hell at them. I think she was well done by Charisma (and did not deserve what happened to her).

( all questions under here )