De-orbiting The ISS

I realize it’s old, and has lived longer than its life expectancy, but you don’t sell your old car without making arrangements for a new car, and I think that the space station should be replaced before the old one is destroyed.

Happy Friday iday! Have a great weekend!

My Trip To The Opthalmologist

I went in for my one week (and two day) checkup yesterday. Reading the eye chart, the doc said I did better than ever before in his office. I felt like I couldn’t see well, but kept “guessing” correctly.

I was pretty pleased when I left there yesterday

Its almost Friday, it’s been a long week after being off all last week.

Have a fantastic day!

Hottest Day Ever?

According to the article HERE, Sunday (the 21st?) was overall, the hottest day ever recorded. Average surface temperature 17⁰C or 63⁰F.

Ive been thinking that the afternoons have been been quite hot, hotter than normal.

When I first moved to the Cayman islands, scuba diving in the winter the seed temperature would be “calibrate your thermometer” 82° and in the summer it would be 86°. This never changed for many years. But now when I scuba dive it is warmer in the summer in ’86°.

I’m a little skeptical about this article, because I was just discussing how hot it was with somebody and then the link appeared on my Chrome. Like the walls have ears!

Here there’s thunderstorms and rain all around my house but no rain here. My yard needs rain.

Have a happy hump day!

A Week & A Day

today marks 8 days since I had my surgery on my eye. My vision seems roughly the same. I can tell there are changes, but nothing major.

When I look in the mirror, I cannot differentiate between the pupil and the iris in my eye. I can’t see the black dot. It’s just a dark circle. It was like that before. Looking at the full moon with my glasses on is pretty good but when I take my glasses off it looks misshapen and smaller, not a clear picture. Mid range, like across the street or across the room seems better without my glasses than with them. For reading I will still definitely need glasses. I worry about losing the ability to read, reading is my life.

I have another checkup tomorrow and we’ll be getting a new prescription for glasses in about another week or two.

Happy Tuesday, have a great day!

Book: 2034

I finished this boook over the weekend. I couldn’t put it down.

The years is 2034, US Ships put out a fire on a fishing trawler in the South China Sea. The US boards and finds that it’s really a spy boat.

China wants it’s trawler back, then sinks all three US Ships when the US doesn’t comply. They are somehow able to jam and disable all the ships weapons and communications.

A US Pilot, testing some stealth technology, goes into Iranian airspace The Iranians are able to remote control his plane and land him in Iran.

The US government has a huge black out of their computer networking systems. All internal and external communications are lost.

US sends two carrier groups to the South China Sea because of the lost ahips. Both carriers and all the support ships are sunk. The Chinese are able to jam all their onboard systems and the systems on the aircraft.

The USN loses a quarter of it’s fleet that day

The US pulls it’s ships from the North Sea to attend the South China Sea incidents. The Russians, unsupervised, blow up all the USA’s undersea fiber optic cables. They take over some NATO territory.

Iran takes over territory in and near the Straight Of Hormuz

Using World war II technology, the US nukes a Chinese city. In escalation, China bombs to US cities. The US makes preparations to nuke 3 Chinese cities.

that’s all I’m going to tell you, you have to read the book!

today is my first day of work since my eye surgery. We’ll see how the computer looks, my prescription in my glasses is not correct anymore. It will be interesting times.

have a great week!

Success, So It Seems

The operation was a success. I’m alive and I can still see.

When I got home, my vision was pure blur. This morning, it seems about the same as before. Hopefully it will continue to improve throughout the day.

In the picture above, it looks like I’m wearing a contact lens, but the line is where the incision was made I’m guessing.

The worst thing this morning is that it feels like my eyelashes are messed up. I want to wash my face but can’t get water (or soap) in my eye.

The operation was a unique experience. I still have glaucoma and epiretinal membrane, so I didn’t expect any miraculous improvement.

Have a nice day

Final.Friday

It’s the final Friday before my surgery, my final weekend diving for at least two months. My final exercising for I don’t know how long. My final work day for more than a week..

I feel like my life is ending Monday. I’ve never took a week sick time in my life.

How many people die from cateract surgery? How many times does the procedure leave the person blind?

I’ll be glad when it’s behind me!

Have a good weekend !

The Same But Different

SInce I switched to GoDaddy, WordPress has been very different on my Android phone with Chrome than it has on my Android tablet with Chrome.

On my phone, I type a post and press “Publish” and it takes me to a menu list of options frommwhich there seems to be no escape. To go back warns me that I’ll lose everything, and there’s no way forward.

I can’t comment on your blogs, because it tells me I must sigh in to Google. Which I am and have done again to no avail.

It actually can’t be GoDaddy, because it’s only my phone, not both devices. I installed Firefox and the symptoms were the same.

Weird. … Workin’ on it!

Have a great day!