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Friday, September 4, 2015

Last Days in the Pacific Northwest

In about an hour, I'm off to the first-week-after appointment with the eye surgeon. I will mention to him the 'floaters' that have been dogging my peripheral vision since the surgery. If they persist, I will give them names and consider them pets, like that cat almost seen slipping around in the corner of your eye. One will be Spot because it is a small black spot, sometimes on the edge, sometimes traveling across the center of my vision. The other which resembles a bit of lint will be Fluffy.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 30, 2015

dimsum breakfast!

Yesterday we stopped at an Asian market and brought back a number of little tasty or tasty-looking small food items for making a dimsum breakfast at home. For anyone who has not had dimsum, they are a collective name for little tidbits and morsels that are often steamed, like shu-mai and pot-stickers and steamed or baked dumplings and buns. Some are sweet, like those filled with red bean paste, and some are savory with meat fillings. In a restaurant, a cart comes by the tables with steamer... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Raining in Seattle!

Yes, yes, it is always supposed to be raining in Seattle... But what people far from here suppose isn't how it is. In fact, summers in the Puget Sound region can be simply gorgeous! Even idyllic! With the occasional summer heat-wave that drives people to nearby mountains or ocean beaches, and long dry stretches, it can get too hot and dry even west of the Cascades. This summer there are wildfires in the Olympics to prove it. But those fine days of temperatures in the 70s and low 80s F, when the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Progress in sight

Lovely day here in Seattle--moderate temps, sunny with a few clouds, no rain expected. Ordinarily I am not much into discussing ailments and procedures that I'm going through, but I think there is a value in making some of the details more familiar to people who may, sooner or later, be faced with similar situations. It would have been helpful to me to have some information from others regarding this one, and things like root canal work, or childbirth, or growing old. Well, not everyone's awful... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 24, 2015

On to the next phase...

Big ol' eyepatch, no depth perception... Eye surgery was surreal, what with a fair amount of sedation and yesterday's Battle of Five Armies and a Doctor Who binge... the latest Doctor, Peter Capaldi's first 6 episodes. Blend with geometrics and patterns of other kinds... Looking forward to the next eye-fix, in a month or so. Tylenol now, and a lie-down... The healing phase will be more challenging, I think. Sign in to see full entry.

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noises off

It's a theater term that means, there are noises off-stage. Such noises indicate goings-on that the audience can surmise but not see: background chatter and busy-ness. The noises of Seattle, here where I am staying, are very different from the noises of Colorado Springs. This is a city, and there is a steady white-noise like an air conditioner outside the window, though no responsible device is in view from the window. There is the occasional bang of a door no one thinks to close quietly, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 21, 2015

What luck!

I was sooo lucky yesterday! First, I, for once, set my alarm to go off at 4-30 am... luckily, Charlie woke me just before that, and that was when I realized my clock never made the Savings Time spring forward... I'd have been an hour late. Then... When I printed out my boarding pass, it seemed odd it printed 2, so I left one home. Shoulda read it... It was a two flight trip, connection in Denver, and it had printed both boarding passes. I had time, though, at the airport, to get them reprinted.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Touch down!

Tomorrow I will write about moments of extraordinary luck while traveling... For now, I'm too tired to think, after 3 hrs of sleep before rising at 4:30 this morning to get to the airport. The air was terribly unclear between Denver and Seattle, the whole west is hazy with the smoke of wildfires. But then, there were a few good shots to be had... From here https://flic.kr/p/wEhWRh click to the left to get the images in proper order. This is the first batch... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Flying...

...to Seattle tomorrow morning! To the airport at 5am for a 6:40 flight to Denver, 2+ hours layover, then about the same time in the air, arriving in Seattle in time for lunch. Friday, eye surgeon will do his assessment of my ocular orbs, and presumably on Monday, will fix one of the them. About 10 days later he will check his work, then I fly home again, if all's well. If it isn't... well, we will deal with that if and when. I went shopping this morning and found a large plastic planter/tub for... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 17, 2015

This one is for Naut who loves the sea

OCTOPUS Lurking loosely, blobbishly unrolling your enormous head a-lolling with a kind of neckless grace as you come pouring down the face of rocky coves and coral caves that shimmer with a most enchanting glimmer through the roof of pulsing waves. Gem set in a jewel Red or yellow, white and polka-dots and stripes or maybe cobalt blue. Loosely committed to your shade, your shape also defined sort of by whatever space you fill... And yet, in you a hunter's canny will and truth be told, you're... Sign in to see full entry.

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