#eye surgery

Switching from Windows to macOS is driving me nuts. Programs that are supposed to “just work” are not working. Emacs, which I rely on for technical writing (nothing to do with my art projects) is giving me a depressingly bad time. To regain my sanity, I decided to install VirtualBox and run Emacs in Linux…but Monterey doesn’t support VirtualBox in a simple way. It took 2 hours of hacking to get it working. Monterey is so paranoid it’s putting me into a bad mood.

On the other hand, while my eye (the right one) is healing, I need a temporary pair of glasses with a special prescription. Unfortunately, simple dollar store reading glasses won’t work. I eventually decided to buy some prescription glasses online from Zenni.

Today I had cataract surgery. The ophthalmologist removed the cloudy lens in my right lens and replaced it with an acrylic lens. I had been dreading this surgery for years. The thought of someone cutting my eye with a razor-sharp diamond scalpel was more than I could deal with.

Afraid as I was of surgery, I was also afraid of not being able to drive at night. Night driving had become a frightening ordeal .When you have a full blown cataract, the glare of oncoming headlines turns the darkness into a wall of white light, which is not fun when you’re driving on a two-lane highway.. I scoured youtube for cataract surgery videos. As my ignorance of cataracts diminished, I was able to schedule surgery for my eye.

Lots of chores this week. Because I’m having eye surgery tomorrow (Monday), I have to get a head start on the workflow of my part-time job. I spent most of this morning loading two days of work into the system so that it can be released automatically Monday evening and Tuesday evening. I should be able to work by Wednesday, if all goes well.

esides preparing stuff for my job, I did some cooking for next week’s fine dining. The main dish was a vegan “loaf”, what some vegans would call a “no-meat loaf”. I prefer to simply call it a loaf. My loaf is actually a kind of moist bread made with oatmeal, walnuts, quinoa, and kidney beans. Beside the loaf, I made a tomato sauce and a cheese-y sauce. There I go — breaking my own rule. I use cheese-y because it’s a lot easier than saying onion, red bell pepper, and nutritional yeast based sauce. /p>