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Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:16 am**

I've come down to the hospital library to check my e-mail - except I can't because there is only one computer in the hospital which allows access to gmail, and some arsehole's already using it. I didn't sleep well last night, and I want to punch him in the head.

On a lighter note, one of the girls in the department brought a huge bar of Milka chocolate in today. This reminded me of when I saw Shellac at ATP, and during the questions bit, some one asked 'Why is the Milka cow purple?', to which the reply was 'because she's a lesbian'.
Remembering this made me smile for about ten minutes.

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 7:23 am**

night_tools wrote:I've come down to the hospital library to check my e-mail - except I can't because there is only one computer in the hospital which allows access to gmail, and some arsehole's already using it. I didn't sleep well last night, and I want to punch him in the head.

On a lighter note, one of the girls in the department brought a huge bar of Milka chocolate in today. This reminded me of when I saw Shellac at ATP, and during the questions bit, some one asked 'Why is the Milka cow purple?', to which the reply was 'because she's a lesbian'.
Remembering this made me smile for about ten minutes.

ahem, just incase you didn't knnow this, they ARE in fact ACTUALLY lilac cows. it's the truth! not lesbatans and definitely not purple.

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:54 pm**

Rotten Tanx wrote:I'v worn glasses for a few years now but only lately realised how nice it feels to take them off at the end of the day. Kinda like the feeling you get taking your socks and shoes off at the end of a long days walking. Only this is after a long days looking at stuff.

I've never worn glasses... BUT... I stare at a damn computer monitor for 8 hours a day at work, AND THEN I do dumb shit like stare at a computer monitor some more when I come home... just for fun, y'know? So at this rate, I'm not going to be 20/20 for much longer... I notice that when I get home from work sometimes I have headaches or I feel like I just want to lay down and close my eyes, even though I'm not tired. I was mentioning this to my girlfriend, and she said she had heard that this happens because you stare at the screen (short-range) all day and then you get in the car and *whammo* now you have to look long-range while you drive, and supposedly your eyes feel strain trying to make the quick transition?
(might apply differently if you take public transportation???)

So anyways, she had heard about these special glasses for people who don't naturally need vision correction, but do work on computers all day. I guess the principle is that these make the transition from focusing on your computer to focusing on the road less traumatic (???) Has anyone else heard of this???

OK - I googled for my own self and found this:
http://www.allaboutvision.com/cvs/faqs.htm

...but I still want to know if anyone has personal experience with these?

I'm tempted to try some out, but still feel that nagging fear that by wearing some sort of glasses "unnecessarily" that it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy whereupon I would adjust and then rely upon them?

(BTW - I'm totally with you on how good it feels to take socks and shoes off at the end of the day, and thinking maybe I want to help my eyes feel that good also?)

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:58 pm**

Arson Smith,

Don't do it! I would suggest utilizing some or all of the Bates Method, which deals in great part with eliminating this eye strain.

You will take frequent and short breaks from staring at your screen, and you will do little eye exercises.

It will be great!

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:08 pm**

Today, at work, some old lady came to the shop to purchase an amplified signal indoor antenna. She was thoroughly confused about the two plugs involved (a power adapter and the coaxial cable...not very similar looking) and kept explaining to me how she "didn't have the time for figuring this out" and that she was going to kill herself if she had to come back to the store. She was seriously muttering under her breath for 20 minutes about how she would die or end her life if she had to come back to ask a question.

All day I have been envisioning looking though the shop windows and seeing her taking her own life in amusing ways.

[my favourite thus far is: from the bell-tower of the Catholic church across the street]

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 3:04 pm**

Its the right time in the summer when the toads and tarantulas come out in the evening.

Once I got used to them the tarantulas aren't that big a deal,

but the toads kind of freak me out.

They are basiclly the size of a home made hamburger (on a bun with the works)

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:07 pm**

Yesterday, I went to San Remo, Italy to buy cigarettes. It's only a 30 minute drive. The pack of 20 Winston light cigarettes now costs 3.30 euros in Italy whereas it used to cost 2.70 euros a few months ago. It's still cheaper than in France where the same pack costs 4.60 euros.

Tarantula :shock:

scary.

In my previous apartment, which was at the ground floor on a hill of Nice, I had found at least 20 scorpions and 1 snake during the 5 years I lived there.

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:09 pm**

Tarantulas - a little creapy but really not a big deal, I've yet to meet anyone who's been bit, I think you'd have to try really hard to get them to bit. Once we had a little family living on the porch, a Mama (palm sized) and several babies (2" or so leg spread)

Now we have scorpions too (I never knew they were in france??) They do hurt but its basically like a bee sting. Ive seen them from 1/2" (common) up to 4" (not so common) in my house

Black widows, more common than I'd like to believe, I've seen several around the yard, none in the house so far

Rattle snakes are what you have to watch out for, I found one nestled up against my screen door a couple months ago. Scared the shit out of me.

Just little detail from life in the desert

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:21 pm**

If I found scorpions, tarantulas and rattlesnakes in my house I would go put my head in the oven. I couldn't even begin to try and deal with that. I've only just summoned up the courage to piss while there's a moth on the ceiling above my head.

Posted: **Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:29 pm**

Rotten Tanx wrote:If I found scorpions, tarantulas and rattlesnakes in my house I would go put my head in the oven. I couldn't even begin to try and deal with that. I've only just summoned up the courage to piss while there's a moth on the ceiling above my head.

Angriest_Dragon wrote:Spiders scare the shit out of me.
Especially the big bastards.
Once a few years ago, I had just hopped in the shower and there was one of them hairy fuckers sitting inside the shower with me next to the drain.
I'm almost positive that I screamed like a little girl.
I somehow managed to clean myself in less than five minutes and hopped out of there with a fear so great that I had to leave the house because I was afraid to use the bathroom there.
I returned a few hours later and the spider was gone.
Not sure if it left or if one of my two roommates at the time got rid of it.
They claimed to not have seen it but the thing was the size of a man's fist.

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