Move Complete

 have finished moving my iWeb blogs over here to Xanga. It only took me six days, which is not bad at all. The bad news is that the editor doesn’t like Safari, so if I want anything other than plain text, like, oh, italics or bold or formatting I have to use Firefox. 

I am considering moving my blog to Gramze.com, as my Sweetie has finally decided he could share a domain, but I am reluctant to have to mess around with WordPress again. I could learn to hate CSS. I may split the difference and use one of the other blogging sites, like blogger or something. I actually have blogs in most of them which remain unused.

Note: obviously I am moving all these posts again to WordPress.

Goodbye, Dot Mac

My dot mac account expires in 30 days. I got an email from Apple reminding me of it today. I’m going to let it expire. 

Last year I needed it. I blog at dot mac, I use my dot mac email, I have backups of all my contacts and calendars at dot mac, and I use my iDisk for transferring large files.

This year I have Leopard, or, more specifically, Leopard and a large backup drive for Time Machine. I don’t need dot mac anymore. 

Thanks, Steve.

Oh, and my blog? For the time being, back at Xanga. I’m in the middle of transferring all my entries from iWeb.

http://www.xanga.com/rhiamom

Seeing Is Very Good

This my new profile pic showing me without glasses. Yay contacts and reading glasses. Best of all, I only need the glasses for really close work, like within 2 feet.

My glasses were two years old. My eyes had changed. Worse, I am taking hormones now (Hot flashes in the US -annoying. Hot flashes in Thailand -truly miserable.) Hormones slightly alter the curvature of your eyeball, changing your focal point and astigmatism. To sum, I couldn’t see even with my glasses on.

I went to a local shop, got an eye exam, and got shiny new daily wear contacts and reading glasses. I’ve worn contacts before, but I always gave them up due to my astigmatism not being corrected, or the contacts being painful due to protein deposits even with an enzyme cleaning twice a week. These contacts don’t correct any astigmatism, because the combination of contacts changing the outside curvature and the hormones changing the focal point made a correction unnecessary. I can see better than I have in ages. I need drops for my somewhat dry eyes, though.

The first contacts the doctor prescribed were wrong. I went back after three days and explained that I could see across the street, and into the next county/tambol, but not anything in the same room. A quick exam verified it. So he changed my prescription from -3.25 to -2.00, and I could see everything over 2 feet away. He swapped the box of wrong lenses for a box of the right lenses. 

Jim is unhappy with the recurring expense of daily wear lenses versus the one-time expense of glasses or contacts you clean. It would be nice if we could get some type of payment from our vision coverage. I’ll try.