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Citysnaps said:
Sorry to hear that. Is that a ringing in your year, similar to tinnitus?
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No. It sounds like a single “thump-thump” that occurs immediately after I stop speaking or scratching my ear in a quiet room. I can feel the muscle spasming, and over the course of a day it gets tired and starts to hurt a bit. Comes and goes. There’s an anxiety component to it.
 
Sorry to hear! Maybe it’s something that will go away as it came
Wish you so!
 
Going to dinner tonight at our favorite Austrian restaurant. Happened to peek at the menu to see if there are any seasonal specials, and saw that you have to choose whether you want your wienerschnitzel to be veal or pork. This is not a thing. Wienerschnitzel is only viel (Kalb). If it’s pork it’s Schweineschnitzel or Schnitzel Wiener Art. Stop it, Austrian restaurant. My Oma and Opa taught me better.

The point being that because Trump is eating all the hamburgers, beef and veal now are outrageously expensive and restaurants are forced to offer lower priced alternatives out of fear of scaring off customers, I guess.

I also want to brag that while my own wienerschnitzel is not as good as this restaurant’s, my spätzle is much better than their’s.
 
Ordered an e-ink note taking tablet for myself as a Christmas present, especially considering how messed up this year was. Ordered from Amazon, which I guess is a mistake at this time of year. Was supposed to arrive Monday, but never showed up. Magically appeared back at the local distribution center on Tuesday, and delivered today.

I received an opened water/sump pump.

So some ****** decided to swap this while working as a delivery driver or at the local distribution center. And now on top of not actually having the item I ordered before the new year, I get to work through Amazon’s customer service trying to resolve this.
 
Cmaier said:
Going to dinner tonight at our favorite Austrian restaurant. Happened to peek at the menu to see if there are any seasonal specials, and saw that you have to choose whether you want your wienerschnitzel to be veal or pork. This is not a thing. Wienerschnitzel is only viel (Kalb). If it’s pork it’s Schweineschnitzel or Schnitzel Wiener Art. Stop it,
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What if they use schnauzer?

 
Very nice neighbor across the street had his tree fall and crush his car. Lots of wind the last couple days. He cut up the tree before I could help, but I lent him my yard waste bin, at least. Poor guy had moved his car because the tree was looking a little wobbly, but he didn’t move it far enough. Roof and windshield caved in, tire punctured, etc.
 
Cmaier said:
Very nice neighbor across the street had his tree fall and crush his car. Lots of wind the last couple days. He cut up the tree before I could help, but I lent him my yard waste bin, at least. Poor guy had moved his car because the tree was looking a little wobbly, but he didn’t move it far enough. Roof and windshield caved in, tire punctured, etc.
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Willow Glen area, right? You guys got hit hard during the last couple of weeks, both by weather and vandals.
 
Eric said:
Willow Glen area, right? You guys got hit hard during the last couple of weeks, both by weather and vandals.
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I *wish* willow glen! Campbell, near the border with los gatos.
 
Cmaier said:
Very nice neighbor across the street had his tree fall and crush his car. Lots of wind the last couple days. He cut up the tree before I could help, but I lent him my yard waste bin, at least. Poor guy had moved his car because the tree was looking a little wobbly, but he didn’t move it far enough. Roof and windshield caved in, tire punctured, etc.
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Oof. We had a tree on our property come down in the last couple weeks as well. But we lucked out that the only damage done was to the gutter and the fascia board it was mounted to.
 
Nycturne said:
Oof. We had a tree on our property come down in the last couple weeks as well. But we lucked out that the only damage done was to the gutter and the fascia board it was mounted to.
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I’ve got a large redwood about 20 feet from my front door. We constantly are having an arborist check it out and thinning it because we’re worried that one of these years an atmospheric river will take it down on our house or the neighbor’s (center of gravity is toward the neighbor). In our town it’s nearly impossible to take the tree down preemptively due to regulations, and we’d have to replace it with another large tree and we have nowhere to put it.

The nice thing is our little 9-home HOA has agreed to take responsibility for upkeep on the front yard trees, so at least my wife and I aren’t footing the continual maintenance ourselves
 
Cmaier said:
I’ve got a large redwood about 20 feet from my front door. We constantly are having an arborist check it out and thinning it because we’re worried that one of these years an atmospheric river will take it down on our house or the neighbor’s (center of gravity is toward the neighbor). In our town it’s nearly impossible to take the tree down preemptively due to regulations, and we’d have to replace it with another large tree and we have nowhere to put it.
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Our problem tree was right by the power box. So the roots were pretty weak on that side as it was crowded out by the concrete slab for the transformer. The big rains here in the PNW softened the soil, and then the atmospheric river came at just the right angle to push the tree over. It was just a matter of time that this happened.

The thing I already miss is that it blocked the street lamp from lighting up the front of the house. The main reason we hadn't done much with it up to this point. That and the cat liked hanging out under it during summer.
 
Had my 2 week post-op on the left eye yesterday. Vision is now 20/20 for distance, which is nice because she wasn’t really aiming for that - she shifted it inward so I would have better near vision. Vision drops off pretty hard when anything is nearer than arm’s reach. I can read my apple watch (including small print) and I can read text on my computer, which is a big improvement over where it was the day after surgery. I tried on some drugstore readers, and 1.5 seemed to work fine (but I can’t really use them yet unless I keep my right eye closed).

I do see some slight line-bending on my computer - it was worse a week ago. She thinks it’s probably just an artifact of the lens, because of the way this crazy lens works and the fact that I see the problem mostly when at the very edge of the lens’ near range. She had them do retina scans again on both eyes just in case, but I haven’t heard anything about those. Hopefully it’s not macular pucker, or I’ll need yet another surgery and will probably have to tap out of a hearing I’m supposed to argue in Delaware at the end of March, and I do love arguing.

Right eye being done on monday. That one includes the vitrectomy and removing the layer of muck that is pinching the retina, and will take at least several weeks to recover from because of the gas bubble. I am really curious to see how my brain adapts - right now I don’t see things as being distorted, generally, because my brain has decided that my left eye is in charge of overall shapes (even though my right eye is the dominant eye). Once my right eye can see clearly, my brain might decide to make the world look like I’m on an acid trip, due to the wrinkly retina (which will take a long time to recover, and won’t recover fully).
 
Cmaier said:
Had my 2 week post-op on the left eye yesterday. Vision is now 20/20 for distance, which is nice because she wasn’t really aiming for that - she shifted it inward so I would have better near vision. Vision drops off pretty hard when anything is nearer than arm’s reach. I can read my apple watch (including small print) and I can read text on my computer, which is a big improvement over where it was the day after surgery. I tried on some drugstore readers, and 1.5 seemed to work fine (but I can’t really use them yet unless I keep my right eye closed).

I do see some slight line-bending on my computer - it was worse a week ago. She thinks it’s probably just an artifact of the lens, because of the way this crazy lens works and the fact that I see the problem mostly when at the very edge of the lens’ near range. She had them do retina scans again on both eyes just in case, but I haven’t heard anything about those. Hopefully it’s not macular pucker, or I’ll need yet another surgery and will probably have to tap out of a hearing I’m supposed to argue in Delaware at the end of March, and I do love arguing.

Right eye being done on monday. That one includes the vitrectomy and removing the layer of muck that is pinching the retina, and will take at least several weeks to recover from because of the gas bubble. I am really curious to see how my brain adapts - right now I don’t see things as being distorted, generally, because my brain has decided that my left eye is in charge of overall shapes (even though my right eye is the dominant eye). Once my right eye can see clearly, my brain might decide to make the world look like I’m on an acid trip, due to the wrinkly retina (which will take a long time to recover, and won’t recover fully).
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Recovery can be frustrating. I often think there’s at least as much art as science to it.

Hope your vitrectomy goes well. Fortunately, I didn’t need a gas bubble after either of mine, which were done for intraocular hemorrhage.
 
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My New Year's Resolution is
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a simpler day and time


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