I had planned to take a trip to the playground today and visit the goats. Instead I ended up taking an unscheduled trip to the hospital. So it goes.

The playground trip was canceled due to snow. Lots and lots of snow. A little too much for me to handle. I may try again on Thursday, if the weather permits.

Meanwhile, my right eye has been sore for a while. And my dad said it looked red. So he called the hospital and they wanted me to come in. Just like old days. Waiting, waiting, waiting. And then poked and prodded and eyedropped and I’ll just get my colleague to have a look at you too if you don’t mind waiting some more.

Nothing too alarming though. If I understood it correctly, it’s the cornea that is irritated and dried out. All this mucking about with the eyes and the complete death of it, means that it hasn’t gotten enough fluid. Or something like that. Anyway, I got some ointment for it and we’ll be back next week for the previously scheduled appointment. I do hope we’ll be able to proceed with the left eye. The right one has given me enough trouble as it is. Sometimes it seems like it might have been easier to just have it removed. I think I may even at one point, not too long ago, have imagined gouging it out on my own. But no, no. I would prefer to keep it. If it would just stop being a pest. I don’t expect it to ever see again, but is it too much to ask that it would not give me pain?

Also, I think I am seeing a little worse on the left eye. The last couple of days. Seems to be a little darker in the central vision. Less clear. It’s hard to say with everything that’s going up and down. We’ll see.

So I didn’t make it to the goats today, but last Saturday I made it to the library for the first time in a year or so. The one right around the corner, it’s not a long trip. I went to pick up an audiobook I had ordered through Nota. Dad came with me. I was hoping that I could do it all on my own. I remembered where the shelf with pre-ordered books are picked up is. But they are sorted by dates, and I couldn’t see the dates at all. So I had to have dad help me. And then it turned out that the audiobook wasn’t on that shelf at all because it had been ordered from an out-of-town library and those books are kept behind the librarian’s counter. So we ended up having to ask the librarian for help, and she found it for me. Michael Palin’s Sahara. I have ordered more books from Nota. Most of them are directly from their service though, so they will come straight to my door and I can keep them. No need to go to the library to pick them up.

I have also ordered a new MP3 player. On amazon. The one I have now is an ancient model with only 512mb. I wonder if they even make those anymore, today it’s all about gigabytes. My new one is nothing outstanding or expensive but it does have 2 gigabytes of memory and built-in radio. That should be enough space to put the Nota books on there and to get better quality books from Audible. It should be good, assuming I can figure out how to operate it. I did have some problems with my new radio. I had to go online and download a PDF manual because I couldn’t read the paper one. Even the PDF was hard. But I did get that sorted. So we’ll cross those britches when we get to them.

Today I got my copy of 30 Rock season 3 that I hard ordered from the American amazon.com. I originally had preordered the European version on amazon.co.uk. But then it was postponed to April. And the European release of season 1 didn’t have any of the bonus features. So why look like a chump and wait months for an inferior product? I cancaled the amazon.co.uk order and ordered it from amazon.com. As an experiment. And today it came, a couple of weeks after I ordered it I think. It wasn’t held up in customs. And after mucking about with my DVD player’s regional settings I was able to play it. Neato. I really don’t understand why in today’s day and age a company would release a product in America in September ’09 and then have the European release 6 months later. We’re living ina global village etc. It makes no sense. If I hadn’t been such a swell and honest person I would have downloaded an illegal, free copy months ago. Some companies really need to wake up and smell the age they’re living in. No wonder piracy is such a problem. Don’t get me started on Ubisoft’s new DRM.

No really, don’t.

Onwards and upwards.

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