Rants

A friend let me borrow his scanner so I could try it out. I stumbled on some slides a while ago and thought it nice if I digitized them. This Scanner comes with a “light lid” that allows you to do slides. Instead of illuminating from the bottom, the lid lights the slide from the top allowing it to be scanned. When I got it all hooked up I ran a test scan of a piece of paper….YIKES, it’s loud. Ran Donna right out of the room. I have an older Microtek Scanmaker III at work that I thought was noisy, but this thing makes that one sound positively silent. I’ll try some slides in the next day or two and let you know with another rant if they stink.

Downloading some music off the net for someone. Downloaded a whole album from several sources and burned it to a CD. While listening to my newly pirated music I am surprised to find track 5 has got several beeps and clicks in it. How annoying. You just can’t trust thieves to get it right. Now I have to go get that song from a couple of different sources and listen to each one to make sure it isn’t the bad song propagated elsewhere.

I never did have conjunctivitis. The redness had cleared, but it still felt like there was something in my eye. Well, that is because there was something in there. Called the Doc and he referred me to an opthamologist. While examining me with that high powered slit light she actually said “Uh-oh.” I had a speck of something lodged near the perimeter of my cornea. I got some anesthesia drops and with some highly tricky scraping of the surface she got it out and showed it to me on the end of her finger, about half the size of a pepper flake. Now I have different drops for the next 5 days.

Is it my imagination, but does it seems like Friends is just going through the motions at this point? I watched tonight’s episode and it was like I’d seen this all before, not this episode neccesarily, but this feel, Seinfeld in it’s last couple of years had it too. Sure the characters are still likeable, but it seems like it has been done.

It’s Pink Eye – stay away from my blog – it’s contagious.

What started this morning as a slight ache in my left eye has now morphed into a runny nose and watery eyes and slight aches and now I want to go to bed…