Well, dear readers, I am so over this heat and this house being eighty degrees – they keep telling us cooler weather is here. Where? Where is this cooler weather. Supposedly, it’s supposed to cool off this weekend, but they have been saying that for the past three weeks. Enough about heat. I’m cooling down the house and whilst doing so I am listening to a marvelous Dutch composer named Henriette Bosmans, who’s having a bit of a rediscovery in the music world. And well deserved, too. Her music is lovely, tonal, and very appealing. Listening to her piano concerto right now and I don’t care who knows it. Anyway, let’s get to the breaking bombshell news, shall we? I had my eye doctor appointment – they did all the usual tests to see what improvements, if any, have been made since my last appointment in July. The good news is, improvements, and rather large ones, straight across the board. He was very pleased. No double vision most of the time. Droopy eyelid is improving, slowly but surely. No speech issues in the last few weeks, not that that’s his deal. Left eye 20/20, right eye 20/40, or something like that, which has been consistent for years. Left eye is actually amazing – read the eye chart right down to the teeny-tiny last line. Not bad for seventy-seven. I’m going back next week to get a glasses refraction so I can get both glasses for far and for close. That will be very good. The readers are fine, but because each of my eyes is different, they’re not optimal and optimal is always optimal. I like the optics of optimal, don’t you? I did get six and a half hours of sleep – better than four and five – and there was no real traffic either way, coming or going, so that was nice, too. Once I was back home, I ordered that extra crispy orange chicken from the Studio City City Wok, and it really was EXTRA crispy and great. I had the small portion – just right for one human. We decided that the Darling Daughter did not want to deal with the horrendous traffic she’d be facing to come here in the afternoon, so she’ll come today around noon o’clock. The back house guy stopped by to say goodbye – he was such a good neighbor to have here, and he felt the same about me. I had a bunch of telephonic conversations, answered a ton of e-mails, we’ve shipped all the eBay orders, which have been pretty amazing – in five days I’ve sold six times more than the best of any five days on Amazon. And everything is so much easier on eBay – you’re not treated like a criminal or a child there. I watched a silly movie called Hell Bound, with a no-name cast save for Stuart Whitman – from 1957 and shot in LA, but mostly in Wilmington at the harbor. Although, two great drive by shots on Ventura Blvd. – first by one of the many motels there, several of which are still there, but not this one – this one is now a strip mall. I might go over there and strip. Anyway, terrible movie. For the snack, it was an English muffin with peanut butter and jam – very good. And here we are.
Today, I’ll be up by ten and I think Apple will be calling between ten and eleven to discuss my CD drive issue and I sure hope we can solve it. Then the Darling Daughter will visit, and we’ll go through some boxes in the garage and do some organizing. We’ll grab a bite to eat at some point – maybe the Cheesecake Factory, maybe Barone’s, or this other jernt I have my eye on that’s supposed to be very good. We shall see. Then after that, I’ll do a quick once-over on my friend’s galley, which just arrived and looks spiffy. I’ve already found a couple of tiny fixes to fix, but they’re really simple. I sent a copy to her hubby to also do a once-over. And I’ve written my gal at the publisher that everything is ready, so they can make their deal, get contracts signed, and then I’ll be supervising everything after that and approving everything. At some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I should hear a new track for the play, then next week we move on to act two. I’m also attending an opening night – first supping with the Pearls, then we’ll head over to the theater. Then the weekend is pretty free.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by ten, hopefully have a call from Apple, visit with the Darling Daughter and have a bite to eat, give a galley the once-over, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Glasses and vision. If you wear glasses or contacts, when did you first have to get them, do you like contacts (I could never do them), do you like readers, how often have you had to change prescriptions? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that it was a very good eye day because – the eyes have it.