My friend Bryan Holliday is an award-winning nature photographer based in Phoenix.

From the ISS

Oh, look, Daniel Petrocelli is studying up on Orlylaw



http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.co ... _evidence/

Tomorrow is my dogaract surgery. Very excited, it will all be over by 8:30 a.m., then some recovery time and go home. The doc was 'splaining how it goes ... "so then I break up the dogaract and vacuum out the debris as I go ... and then I take the new lens, folded up like a taco, and put it up inside your eye and then unfold it ..."

I'm getting an eye taco. In thousands of years of written language, no one has ever written that sentence before.

'Course, they cover the eye with a patch for a couple days. I'll only be able to see one of my kids and one of our cars and two tines on a fork and two legs on a deer and like that. But I can cover that.

Halfheimers', we haz some.

Good luck with this, Foggy. Once the eye patch comes off, I think you're gonna like what you see.

And as long as you have the patch on, you will talk like a pirate, right?

Best of luck, Mr. Leghorn.

I can't have anything like that done. As soon as they start explaining about the puff of air for the glaucoma test, I faint. What's funny is one of my kids has the same problem. She was a complete meltdown at age six when they put eyedrops in for some exam and then she passed out. They looked at me baffled and said "it doesn't hurt at all, Mrs. Ex-Name" and I smiled and then sagged against the wall myself and had to put my head between my legs. I think they wrote bad things in our charts then.

Take my blood, I'm fine. Mention my eyeballs and I fall down.

So all that to say: have fun with the taco! Eyepatches are sexy.

It's been a while.

Good luck tomorrow, Fogster ...

The very first time I read about laser eye surgery was in 1993 related to a stock tip I saw about one called VISX.

I fainted and fell right out of my chair onto the floor.

My Aggie eyedoctor has had a new fangled machine for a few years now. It takes a digital picture of the eye, so no need for poofs or eye drops. Filly involuntarily resists both of those things.

My doc said the first two or three thousand times he did this surgery, he was a little nervous, but it wore off.

I'm stoked. I'm ready. This is going to make me see better. It's a miracle, is what it is. I'm living in a world far beyond the scope of my imagination.

I demand to live at least three or four hundred more years, through the miracle of medical science.




... so I'll need a good pair of eyes, know what I'm talkin' about?

Cannot wait to hear how it goes. I am sure that if most of us live long enough, we'll be in for the same. A patch on the eye does not interfere with the corners of the mouth heading upward!

BTW, John Aravosis of AmericaBlog had his surgery on his first eye last week and is blogging about it.

http://www.americablog.com/2012/05/im-b ... exile.html

It's a miracle surgery, especially after the surgeon's first two or three thousand attempts. You may be given eye drops to ward off infection and maybe eye drops to numb the eye. Maybe a pair of those wraparound black eye shades that look so completely dorky. Or you may be bandaged shut. Just rest for a day or two. You can be a pirate sitting in an arm chair.

Good Luck Fogster!

Break a leg, Foggy!

That air puff freaked me out so much I jumped back, hit my head on something and fell out of the chair. I go to a different eye Dr now. I also go to a different bloodletting place after the fainting/kicking episode.

Oh, and as to the eclipse, it may be odd but I am totally freaked out by/scared of the night sky. Stars are oogie.

COEXIST

Couldn't think where else to put this. Three college students, a Christian, a Jew and a Muslim are dribbling soccer balls across the State of NC for religious tolerance. I found this story cause one of the kids Dylan, was a guest on my local radio show this evening. What a terrific story and a terrific mission.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/22/ ... bling.html

Apparently Dylan originally suggested dribbling soccer balls across the US, Ahmad said "slow down there Forrest Gump" so they decided just across the State. They began 18 days ago in Ashville and are now in Lenoir County. The journey finishes up in Morehead City.

Question:

How stupid is it to pick up a potholder and take a pan out of the oven, set it down, then put the potholder down and pick up the pan with your bare hand?

Answer:

Painfully fucking stupid!

Ouch! I have been known to have the pot holder in my right hand and then proceed to pick up the pot with my left cause my right hand is occupied with the pot holder!

I sort of expect college students in other states to take up the idea. Rhode Island and Providence Plantations really should help out California.

I shouldn't laugh. I won't laugh. I like to finish a strip steak in a cast iron skillet in a 475 degree oven. One of these days I'm going to do what you did. Somehow I think that steak will lose its luster.

The best advice I've ever gotten about hot things was from my Chem 1A lab professor. He told me, "Hot glass looks like cold glass." I didn't appreciate that advice as much when I was 17 as I do today!