Spent the day helping out with the acceptance testing on two of the new CT scanners at the new hospital, and then 10 minutes getting thoroughly soaked by the rain on the walk back to my office. After walking through the second ankle deep pool of water, I gave up trying to stay dry.
When I walked out to go home 15 minutes later, the sun was out.
Go figure.
My what big eyes you have
Note to self: Schedule eye exams for first thing in the morning from now on. Walking out in the morning daylight is much easier than having dilated eyeballs seared out of your skull by the bright noon day sun.
Routine eye exam time. No significant changes in prescription since the last time, although I am noticing that it’s a lot more work to focus on nearby things. Either I’m just getting really lazy or my eyeballs are starting to get old. Not ready for bifocals just yet though. Perfectly healthy near-sighted eyes.
This is the prescription I came out of my eye appointment with.
| Eye | Spherical | Cylindrical | Axis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Right | -8.25 | -3.75 | 180 |
| Left | -9.25 | -3.75 | 180 |
The right eye seems to have improved over the years, since I remember a time not so long ago when both eyes were near -9.75. I still have to wait for the one room at my eye doctor’s office with the equipment that can handle my prescription though.
More radio transitions
This morning instead of hearing boppy 80s tunes on the radio, I was jarred awake by country music on my regular radio station, 96.9. The station’s website redirects over to 95SX too. It seems that like 96 Wave, 96.9 has also undergone a radical format change without much in the way of warning (at least none I noticed). At least 96 Wave seems to have switched back to the original format though.
Not a format change I’m liking, so I guess it’s time to switch the radio at home to 100.5. It’s something I’ve been meaning to do anyway.
Marathoning for the critters
One of my dog park friends has been training to run a marathon for the last few weeks now, and is putting her training efforts towards raising funds for the new JASPCA shelter.
To showcase their training and fund raising efforts, Kathleen and her training buddy started up the Road to Richmond site (they’re planning on doing the Richmond Marathon on Nov 10).
If you want to help them raise a bunch of money for a much needed new animal shelter, check out their site and make a donation. Or donate directly to the JASPCA. Either way, it will go to a very worthy cause.
Fire trucks
At about 9:20 as I was crossing the Ashley River bridge heading into work this morning (trying to catch up on x-ray equipment surveys), there was this long slow moving procession of fire trucks headed the other way into West Ashley. Lights flashing, sirens wailing but apparently not in a hurry to get anywhere.
Not sure where they were headed or what occasion they were marking, but they were going somewhere. Anybody out there know what they were doing?