After all these years it’s a surprisingly unusual experience. I mean a few more night of wearing the anti-rub goggles through Thursday but as each day irriation goes down and the vision improves. Last night my eyes were a bit irrated but with some eye drops and good nights sleep they seemed better though a few times I rolled over and the goggles slipped off.
It was a busy weekend, it seemed to end before it begun. 🐰 Honestly, my hopes for the weekend were a bit limited as I knew a big part of it would be recovering from the big snip, but I spent the balance of Saturday at Thacher Park – well into the night when the bus driver messed up and things were very late and then Sunday morning at Five Rivers then apple picking with Dad on Sunday afternoon and then a family dinner. Dad is getting up there in the years, he was having trouble getting around the orchard. I am not sure if I will be out to see them for a few weeks now if I head north next weekend through Columbus Day. 🍁
I wasn’t going to ride into work 🚴, you know because I need more time for my eyes 👀 to recover, but you know how that goes on ice filled 10 degree winter days ☃️ when I say the same thing, and my extreme mental illness kicks in and says what’s the alternative? It’s not like the express bus 🚌 runs any more, and based on my experience lately, I’m not sure if I trust the yokel-local bus to get to me to work very slowly. And I could be one of those plastic-recycling suburbanites ♻️ who doesn’t burn their trash, and actually drive my big jacked up pickup truck to the suburban office next to sewage treatment works 🚽 and not a real knuckledragger but I like riding my bike. I’ll just make sure to wet my eyes and wear the dark protective glasses 👓 on the way in. I’ll catch the Route 13 bus, which give about a 50% chance of showing up this evening and ride over to eye doctor 🧑⚕️for my final check up and vision test. Figured I don’t want my eyes too irrated when I go for the check. See Mr. LASIK Doctor I’ve been on my best behavior, I slept for 13 hours after your procedure and then hopped on my mountain bike and spent the balance of the day at Thacher Park. I was good though, I didn’t smoke any pot all weekend, because I can imagine marijuana would make my eyes so itchy and dry as they recover. Plus I only really like being stoned up at camp when I can look at all he purty leaves.
Mom asked that I ask if they’ll submit my results to DMV so to get rid of the Corrective Vision Restriction on my license, but it turns out I don’t actually have to change that until my license expires in 2029. But what if a cop 👮 stops you on the highway and demands you see your glasses? Well, technically you don’t have to show your glasses. You have the right to remain silent, and after all, are they going to check if you have contact lens in? I guess if you run over a bunch of small children 👦🏻 with your big jacked up truck the judge could require you take another vision test and they could confirm that I don’t need contact lens anymore. But maybe the LASIK place will report it automatically to DMV. I can ask.
Neighbor once again reminded me it would be fine to toss my trash in his garbage bin if I wanted. 🚮 I’m like I take the compost crap out to my parents house for their pile, 🍏 and most of the summer just smash the rest down and burn it up in woods with motor oil and lighter fluid, 🔥 though I didn’t really say it like that because you know that might be illegal. Truth is I just despite all things urban recycling and promotion of waste and hidden disposal. And I like fire, especially when I’m stoned out of my brain watching the flames flicker. 🧠 This is why some day I’ll own my own land and have hogs and other livestock to eat the food scraps and no neighbors nearby when I burn the rest – and save the occasional can for recycling. For a while I was separating out the plastic for recycling, ♻️ and I guess I could take him up on his offer, but landfills are evil and recycling kind of a scam. He’s a nice guy, I should out kayaking 🛶 one of these days once my eyes are recovered and I’m still in town.
I need to email the landlord about the door, 🚪 I taped up the rotted out bottom of the door that he needs to most likely replace before winter. It closes okay now but it’s hardly a permanent solution. I’m going to wait a few days to clean things up a bit, though I totally admit it’s a lie 🤥 to myself to say my landlord doesn’t know what a dump my unit is. But the truth is regardless of what the former landlord said about the old storm door falling off and apart and that causing the rot, and me not reporting it right away, the truth is the door is just old and rotted. Like everything in my apartment. I’m sure he’ll end up replacing the door when I report it. He’s probably busy right now, being harvest season chopping silage 🌽 🐮 but I also want to have that repaired before it gets cold. I think that door is a major source of air leaks, especially now that the landlord replaced all the upstairs windows. And trust me, I’m sure any barn yard much less silo is much dirtier 🐽 then my apartment. Silage is so pungent, especially one it ferments into good cattle feed. Smells of autumn! I do like milk in my coffee ☕ even on the coldest of mornings.
Accidentally washed my ear buds. 🎧 I thought they were in my pocket, but I could not find them when I was loading the washing machine yesterday. I ultimately found them when I got back from the laundromat. While I did my wash yesterday at my parents house, 👚 their washing machine either didn’t spin out properly or maybe it was drier, and rather then hang up my wash and deal with wet wash, I ended up running down to the laundromat putting 75 cents in a drier and hanging out for 20 minutes reading an e-book on cattle feeding 🐄 and then unpacked my clothes. I found then, but they kept dying after a few minutes of use. Charged them overnight and now they seem good. Which makes me happy, as I like tunes at work, 🎶 plus I want to be able to listen to music as I ride the Route 13 out Eye Doctor this evening for my post-LASIK check up. Glad I don’t have to go to Walmart and ask permission of a clerk to get another pair of them from behind the locked up case.
Not sure if my Adirondack trip will start this weekend, 🍁 though if I wait much longer there won’t much color left into he Adirondacks. I would like to get away, spend some time up at Horseshoe Lake and the St. Regis Canoe Area. 🛶 Except for summer vacation I haven’t done much kayaking. I also should get a new rear-tire for my bike. Maybe That can be a use for my neighbor’s offer of using his garbage bin. Not going to burn that, lest I get government worker attention with the stink. I don’t know. The alternative is go out to Schoharie for this weekend, ride the Catskill Scenic Trail and stock up at Shauls 🌽 before that’s done for the year and Columbus Day Weekend head north. As they say, to be decided. I better get in the shower, with my swim goggles on 🚿🥽 and then ride my mountain to work. 🚿 Remember I need to make some money so some day I can own a homestead that smells like Horney Buck Goat and burn barrel. 🛢️ Such a dirty hick! 💩