The week, on the way out

[rolanni]

I woke up this morning, washed my face, picked up my glasses, and –

…a lens fell out.

And that’s mostly what the last couple days have been like — a series of minor, unexpected disasters — tinyastrophes — that take more time to fix than one imagines they ever could, and suck down too much energy.

This evening, we have a Thing in town, and tomorrow is Friday. Only ten more days until winter break. Yes.

Oh! The authors’ copies of  The Agent Gambit arrived today on the wings of Eddie, the FedEx guy. That would be — TAG, not Eddie — the omnibus edition included Agent of Change and Carpe Diem.

It’s a book!

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Excellent on the Agent Gambit. Not so good on the eyeglasses thingy. Hope tomorrow goes smoother!

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

Mouseastrophes?

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

I hate when my lens falls out.

And congratulations on it being a book. :D

[otterb.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're afflicted with tinyastrophes but I love the term.

In our household, those are "a vignette of minor inconveniences," from this 1983 Bulwer-Lytton contest winner:

"The camel died quite suddenly on the second day, and
Selena fretted sullenly and, buffing her already impeccable
nails---not for the first time since the journey begain---pondered
snidely if this would dissolve into a vignette of minor inconveniences like all the other holidays spent with Basil."

[eseme]

Yay, a book!

I am excited about getting it, though it will mean I have to wait about five months for Plan B. Far better than years, but still a wait.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

Yay! A book!

This household is waiting with hopeful and longing looks for Ghost Ship to become an e-ARC, as one of us will buy the e-arc, and one will buy the hardcover, and one will buy the paperback, and then, probably, as we do with all liaden books, watch the shelves of the used book store for lost editions so they can be given as teasers and hooks, free to a good home.

I seem to have permanently loaned to persons mostly known all my copies of Partners that way...Probably should pick up Agent's Gambit as a 'replacement'.

Dogastrophes, etc..

[claire774.livejournal.com]

Dogastrophes. Dog chews up every day glasses. Then same dog chews up computer glasses. Visit to eye doctor needed anyway.

Ok How to weigh a horse? There's something called a girth tape which one can put around the girth of the horse. From that the tape measures the probable weight of the horse. Or...easy around here. One goes to the AZ border to the weigh station with the horse in the horse trailor. Weigh the trailor and horse on the big scale. Weigh the trailor alone on the big scale. Subtract. Someday the new Best Friends horse HQ will be built. A walk on scale for horses will be next to that building. Nice, right? Horses often come in having been abused, malnourished, sick etc. Weighing of horse often important. Neighs to Hex. May he gain weight quickly.

Good luck with your glasses.
C.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

I often refer to days/weeks like that as "nibbled to death by ducks" or "the death of a thousand paper-cuts". Each injury is relatively minor, but they just keep coming - over, and over, and over...

Why I wear this brand of frames

[saffronrose.livejournal.com]

These are the brand of frames I use, and I think my model is the second from the left on the top row:

http://www.simplyeyeglasses.com/eyeglasses-sunglasses/frames.php?product=Eyeglasses&manf=Silhouette%20Rimless&title=Silhouette%20Rimless%20Eyeglasses

I have to have the thinest polycarbonate lenses thay make, because my right eye is 4+ diopters, so sitting on my glasses doesn't do anything to them. Te other part of the reason for that is the frame. I asked for the lightest weight ones the optician carried, as I get migraines and sinus headaches, where any pressure on my nose hurts like mad. I also have to have the temple pieces NOT touching my head except for the last inch at my ears--binding pressure=migraine trigger.

The nose piece is firmly attached in the lenses, so no popping out for me when I'm cleaning the lenses, which I should do more often. Only downsides--a) hard to see when you've dropped them by the bed, in my experience. Both my walking and my reading pairs have this frame b) the nicely bendy temples won't tuck in your neckline the way rigid-temple glasses will. They have a slightly different rigid plastic case.

They are not the cheapest, but if you take into consideration the medication I've not had to take...I've had these for four years now.