Throughout the Antarctic Winter

Ick

I'm getting a cold. I'm popping coldFX like candy in the hopes of holding it off.

Step 1, Steal Underpants

I went in for my eye surgery consultation on Friday. Fairly standard stuff. Various eye exams and strange machines; then they dilated my pupils with drops that felt like cutting onions, and more strange machines. Then they put in numb-drops to freeze my eyes so she could poke them with a device to determine the thickness of my corneas. Freezing your eyes is a very weird sensation, just like when the dentist does it but in your eyeballs. "Don't touch them or rub them," she warns you. "You won't feel it and you could hurt yourself and not realize it."

I'm going in to have my eyes laser-mapped on Thursday and then going ahead with the surgery on the 17th.

That evening wasn't much fun, what with the headache and sore eyes, but whatcha gonna do.

That evening we met up with friends for board games and got to meet WeeKenobi. He's wee, all right. Future Jedi in training.

Weekend

This weekend we're in K-town, visiting the folks. My lovely wife made an amazing cake for my mom. I have pictures of her adventures in cake decorating classes which I will post in the near future.

I got a call from work but it was a false alarm. Actually that's not quite right -- it was a real alarm but it's somebody else's fire.

Picked up a Mill St mixer pack. They have lemon tea beer now. It's good. I approve.