Between the Xanax, pulling an all nighter, driving like a bat out of hell around those roundabouts when the bus did not show up, and those flashing white, red and green lights in your eyes for 20 seconds each, it was a very psychedelic experience. Kind of like smoking a lot of pot and enjoying the rich colors of the forest, but more of synthetic experience with Christmas colors shown by lasers and LEDs. Really the whole experience was much like montage scene in The Parallax View, certainly no longer the 6 minutes in the outpatient operating room, though minus the trippy music and the photos replaced with lasers. Probably the anti-vaxxer types will claim LASIK is about mind control but I like the fact that I will never have to wear glasses again except maybe for reading and to look stylish when I’m playing a data scientist at work.
I caught the first bus of the day to Price Chopper. 🚍 The bus was supposed to go right past the lot where I was parked overnight 🅿️ but the driver didn’t do that loop probably because nobody asked him and it was early in the morning despite the schedule. It was fine, I walked over there and got my truck, went to Price Chopper 🍏 for a few things I needed at the store. Then I was home by 6:45 AM. Got balled out by the bus driver for wearing a dark shirt and not flagging down the bus with a cell phone or flashlight. 🔦 Admitly it was a pretty dark morning. But I was glad my truck was where I had left it, no ticket on the dashboard 🎫 and I can see pretty good. My eyes are a little bit irrated but no worse then it’s been lately, especially after smoking a lot of weed up at camp. 🏕️ Did I just spend $4,100 so that I could smoke pot without issues of my contacts getting irrated at camp? That well is debatable. Actually, dry eyes and contact irriation had been a growing issue even when I wasn’t stoned up at camp 🏕️ – and I was going to have to go to the eye doctor and get more contacts soon at any rate, not a pleasant experience.
So the next day I’ll have to do hourly eye drops 👀 but I slept through most of the initial healing and are feeling good. I pulled an all-nighter the previous night, or at least intentionally stayed up until 11 PM and got up 4 AM to be as sleep deprived as possible prior surgery, so I could sleep it off once I got home. That plus the Xanax they gave me and a sleeping pill or two 💤 I slept a good 12 or 13 hours solid, though maybe I woke up once or twice to take a piss and then put on a podcast before sleeping a few more hours. No shower today, 🚿 and no swimming for a week or skydiving for a month, though I wasn’t exactly planning on jumping out of an airplane ✈️ this month. They recommend taking some kind of pain reliever 💊 but I didn’t take anything as I wasn’t bothered any more then my contacts were irrating my eyes too many days this summer from the dry eyes
Truth is it was so werid to get out of bed and see your face in the mirror and everything in nice sharp focus. ☺️ While I’ve had this big ass mirror next my bed 🛏️ for the 18 years I’ve rented this dumpy apartment, you know most morning were about reaching for the glasses, 👓 and if you saw anything through the dirt and muck splattered on them, it was good. And then trying to get those contact lens in for good vision. My vision is petty darn sharp now, though at times my eyes get dried out and there was some haze around the streetlights when I was waiting for that early morning bus to get Big Red. Some of it actually was fog, not just my recovering vision.
Heading up to Thacher Park this morning on the Nature Bus, 🚌 I’ll bring my bike but I am not going to do any kind of crazy riding because I am still recovering – probably just spend some time hiking, photographing and hammock time reading. 📸 I am not sure if I am going to stay all day but maybe the first part of the day to enjoy the beautiful morning. 🌅 Tomorrow I will go apple 🍏 picking with dad 👨👨👦 and then maybe next weekend I’ll head up to the Adirondacks for a week up at Horseshoe Lake, Lows Lake and ultimately the St. Regis Canoe Area. 🛶 Should be a nice week, though it seems like I was just out in the Finger Lakes not that long ago for that trip. Winter is coming quickly, and it would be nice if there was some color left 🍁 before I take a week to go off there. I thought up about going up to the Finger Lakes but I think I’m not that interested in doing that.
