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Hmmm. So-so.
Looks like the morning meeting I might have been called in on, I won't be. Or they moved it; we'll see.
I'm ticked at IBM and at Fedex. I was told that Fedex would pick up the return boxes between 1-5 pm yesterday. They did not. Soonest IBM can send them out again? Monday. I don't get my money back until IBM gets this stuff back and processes it back in. I am NOT amused by this delay in the process.... (It's not that the amount of money is significant to my finances - it's not. It's that I'm tired of things related to this laptop getting screwed up. Very, very, VERY tired of it.)
On the other hand, I replied to a few emails this morning, arranged for someone else to cover two hours of after-hour duty on Saturday so I can go to my contact lens appointment in peace, and have already gotten a fair bit of code (and commenting, yay, being able to figure stuff out later!) done.
Contact lenses. Ugh. Anywhere from 15-30 minutes to get them in, still, graceless...I thought they said this gets easier. It seems to be getting harder. This morning, I was very close to taking the right one out and putting my glasses on when I finally got the left one in. We've almost hit the point where trying to get them in can put me in tears of frustration.
Mind, once they're in, I'm fine. But I think the people who say that contact lenses are more convenient than glasses are seriously deluded, possibly psychotic. :P
Pros of the lenses: Don't have the weight of glasses on my nose (oh, whee, big deal). One less reflective surface at night, makes night driving a tiny bit better. Can brush my hair and read the computer monitor at the same time. No more worries about rain on glasses. Seeing myself without glasses (which took a few days to get used to, looked totally wrong until then, and now just looks about the same to me - though I think I liked how I looked a little BETTER with glasses, since at least the bags under my eyes were hidden a bit and looked like glasses-shadow some ways).
Cons of the lenses: getting them in, bigtime negative - UGH. Having to haul around all the crap that goes with them, PLUS my glasses (since lens problems might mean reverting to glasses for a time). Wind in my eyes/not having any shielding in front of my eyes. Occasional blurry moments when the lens gets out of place. Not being able to rub my eyes when they're tired without possibly creating the aforementioned blurry moments, or even accidentally crumpling the lens up and having to remove and replace it. The weird 'cold' feeling where the lens sits. Much harder, when my eyes get tired, to just take the correction off for a few minutes - so instead of that, have to close my eyes. Much easier to lose than the glasses were. Cost of lenses, cost of the STUPID SUPPLIES (which you go through like mad if you have trouble getting the damned things in your eyes - granted, I haven't finished a bottle of either yet, but I think I might need 1-2 a MONTH for the cleaner, and that's not THAT small a bottle).
I'm sure there's more, but I'm going back to work. Gah. I'm not sure I'll stick with this. And not looking forward to having to deal with those stupid assistants tomorrow, either. *sigh* I'm so frustrated with that eye doctor's office.
I'm ticked at IBM and at Fedex. I was told that Fedex would pick up the return boxes between 1-5 pm yesterday. They did not. Soonest IBM can send them out again? Monday. I don't get my money back until IBM gets this stuff back and processes it back in. I am NOT amused by this delay in the process.... (It's not that the amount of money is significant to my finances - it's not. It's that I'm tired of things related to this laptop getting screwed up. Very, very, VERY tired of it.)
On the other hand, I replied to a few emails this morning, arranged for someone else to cover two hours of after-hour duty on Saturday so I can go to my contact lens appointment in peace, and have already gotten a fair bit of code (and commenting, yay, being able to figure stuff out later!) done.
Contact lenses. Ugh. Anywhere from 15-30 minutes to get them in, still, graceless...I thought they said this gets easier. It seems to be getting harder. This morning, I was very close to taking the right one out and putting my glasses on when I finally got the left one in. We've almost hit the point where trying to get them in can put me in tears of frustration.
Mind, once they're in, I'm fine. But I think the people who say that contact lenses are more convenient than glasses are seriously deluded, possibly psychotic. :P
Pros of the lenses: Don't have the weight of glasses on my nose (oh, whee, big deal). One less reflective surface at night, makes night driving a tiny bit better. Can brush my hair and read the computer monitor at the same time. No more worries about rain on glasses. Seeing myself without glasses (which took a few days to get used to, looked totally wrong until then, and now just looks about the same to me - though I think I liked how I looked a little BETTER with glasses, since at least the bags under my eyes were hidden a bit and looked like glasses-shadow some ways).
Cons of the lenses: getting them in, bigtime negative - UGH. Having to haul around all the crap that goes with them, PLUS my glasses (since lens problems might mean reverting to glasses for a time). Wind in my eyes/not having any shielding in front of my eyes. Occasional blurry moments when the lens gets out of place. Not being able to rub my eyes when they're tired without possibly creating the aforementioned blurry moments, or even accidentally crumpling the lens up and having to remove and replace it. The weird 'cold' feeling where the lens sits. Much harder, when my eyes get tired, to just take the correction off for a few minutes - so instead of that, have to close my eyes. Much easier to lose than the glasses were. Cost of lenses, cost of the STUPID SUPPLIES (which you go through like mad if you have trouble getting the damned things in your eyes - granted, I haven't finished a bottle of either yet, but I think I might need 1-2 a MONTH for the cleaner, and that's not THAT small a bottle).
I'm sure there's more, but I'm going back to work. Gah. I'm not sure I'll stick with this. And not looking forward to having to deal with those stupid assistants tomorrow, either. *sigh* I'm so frustrated with that eye doctor's office.