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July 22, 2007
Gone West
We're in Washington state! Yep, we stashed the offspring with the 'rents and hopped a plane to Seattle. Nine grueling hours* of turbulence and really uncomfortable seats, and we're here! Two weeks with no work, no kids, and no itinerary! Woohoo!
The plan is to see as much as we can of this state, to take in as much of the coast as possible, to make a big circuit of Puget Sound: Seattle, Tacoma, Olympic National Park, the islands, (maybe Victoria, BC), Bellingham, Mount Vernon (the city, not George Washington's Virginia plantation), etc. Camping a lot to save money, and using a credit card to cover the rest! :P
We're here in part to get a feel for the area. We want to move here in the future--after grad school--and possibly make this our permanent home. Neither my love nor I belong in New Jersey, nor Virginia (though Herndon came really close), nor any other place we've lived prior. So we just have to pick a place to call home, and Washington state is at the top of our list. But it's high marks are solely based on what others have told us about the place, so we've come to see it for ourselves.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, wherever you go, there you are; baggage and all (good and bad). The hope is if we can find a place where we want to live, we can sort the rest out in due course. Anyhoo...
Don't worry, we'll take pics, though there will be a delay in posting them because someone (<.< yeah, I) forgot the card reader at home. :P
The adventure begins! Stay tuned...
* A non-stop flight would have taken approximately 5 hours. Our flight, however, included a layover in Atlanta, GA, where they boarded the second plane 40 minutes early, and then departed the gate 30 minutes late! So what? Remember: incredibly uncomfortable seats! O.o
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July 19, 2007
Went Down to the Crossroads...
A cool variation on a storied theme. Enjoy.
And Hey! Keep it down! I'm trying to read! O_*
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July 17, 2007
Meeboohoo
My company blocked Meebo. They SUCK!
That is all.
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July 03, 2007
If You Could See Through My Eyes
My glasses broke Friday night,... crushed by my love's cleavage. That's really just the place they chose to die. Her cleavage cannot break glass. But on a cold day... <.< nevermind.
A friend of mine observed that "at least they died happy!" Well I should say so! I myself was disappointed but not freaked out by their demise; even though I'm pretty much can't see a damn thing without them. Read: astigmatism.
So Saturday it was off to the optometrist. "My optometrist"--and I use that term very loosely--basically told me I was out of luck. They said: [affect stereotypical New Jersey accent] "You gonna have ta wait two weeks at least. Sarry." What they meant was: "Get out of my store." So I did something I swore I'd never do again: I went to LenseCrafters.
Now the last time I went to LenseCrafters, they created for me lenses that were so bad that I developed a major migraine mere moments after donning them for the very first time. Their fitter/technician/whatever person dismissed my agony with the wave of a hand, stating that the lenses they made matched my prescription to a tee, and refused to give me a refund. Jerk. I ended up having no problem with lenses produced from the same prescription elsewhere. So, LenseCrafters...
LenseCrafters has a motto (or they used to): "Glasses in about an hour." Well that's true if you're not too particular (and maybe I'm only harping on this because they didn't have what I wanted). Actually needing glasses the same day (that's kind of like "I need them in about an hour"), you're options are kind of limited: no rimless frames like the ones I had that broke (zing!), and no anti-glare coating (double-zing!). The anti-glare coating eliminates that reflection of your own eyes on the inside of the lenses.
In the end I managed to find some frames I liked, and LensesCrafters was actually able to create lenses I could peer through without instantly having my brain implode. Surprise! So I went from frames you'd barely notice (rimless) to frames you cannot miss--ala Buddy Holly but cooler! And now I can see again. But...
...the reflections of my own eyes on the insides of my lenses are starting to make me feel a little paranoid. <.< Who is that person looking back at me? Don't they know it's rude to stare? Have they no sense of personal space?
...
Don't look at me like that. -.-
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