The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I have NO idea what any of that means.

 

[Duleigh]

I have NO idea what any of that means.

It means that I've completely given up on the utter suckage that is now American (and British) TV (Telly)

 

[Candy_Kane54]

It's going to be sunny with a high of 60 degrees today so I will be attending the fish fry tonight. My BP is still moderating so I'm happy about that also.

There's fresh coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are snacks on the counter along with a warm cornbread fresh out of the oven. Enjoy!

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. It's going slowly because of all the distractions going on, not because I'm having trouble with writing in 3P. When I'm at a break point, I think I'm going to ask @old_prof if they'll take a look at what I've done so far and tell me if I'm doing it right ...

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I notice the chocolate calorie-bombs I left here are gone. My profound thanks to those good, selfless café denizens who took one for TP's Team Waist!

 

[Duleigh]

I will be attending the fish fry tonight.

I truly miss a good old Western NY Fish Fry. Macaroni salad, potato salad, cole slaw, French fries, a slab of haddock big enough to threaten any wimpy ol' prime rib, and a slice of buttered rye bread. This to me is heaven with tarter sauce. And we don't wait for lent, every day in Buffalo is Friday and every local pub and eatery has their own version of this calorific delight. Everyone has a favorite place for fish fry. If you're ever mugged in Buffalo, while you're fishing for your wallet, just say, "Hey guys, I'm new in town, where's the best fish fry?"

While the thugs are arguing you can make your getaway, and head to the Athens Family Diner on Genesee St. and Harlem Ave in Cheektowaga. Best fish fry in WNY!

 

[SerenaSteeleMonroe]

Watched the sunrise over the Bay this morning, Beautiful. I don't rise with the sun often, but in San Fran, it's always a sight. Maybe it's smog, fog, or smogy-fogy, but always very beautiful. Big plans this weekend, a BDSM getaway with my two subbies. Dark Ebony on one side, light brown on the other, what could be better? Heading for Nappa soon! I'm having a rich cappuccino concoction right now, while subbies are packing the car. I haven't been here in such a long time, thought I'd drop by and say hey.

Hey!

 

[NotWise]

Watched the sunrise over the Bay this morning, Beautiful. I don't rise with the sun often, but in San Fran, it's always a sight. Maybe it's smog, fog, or smogy-fogy, but always very beautiful. Big plans this weekend, a BDSM getaway with my two subbies. Dark Ebony on one side, light brown on the other, what could be better? Heading for Nappa soon! I'm having a rich cappuccino concoction right now, while subbies are packing the car. I haven't been here in such a long time, thought I'd drop by and say hey.

Hey!

Don't be such a stranger.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

I'm feeling a bit better these past few days. I caught something at the championship game, Broncos vs. Pats, other than depression. A cold, the flu, the black plague, something vile. Haven't been able to take care of the grandkid, write, cook, or enjoy breathing. But as Millie often says, I'm feeling much better now!

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Question: Has anyone heard from @MillieDynamite today? She has an eye exam, and I'm so wanting to hear how bad her eyesight has gotten. She's never had to wear glasses for anything but dyeslixa. Feeling guility about the pleasure I had when she told me she needed glasses.

 

[TheLobster]

Last night, @old_prof told me he found my cat.

Well, okay, maybe not literally, but I woke up with a half-remembered dream involving me searching for my lost cat and eventually receiving some kind of message that he has it and I should go pick it up.

Having checked that the feline in question was in fact snoring in the shower all along, I have to conclude that @old_prof has played an out-of-season April Fool’s joke at my expense. Probably for his contest story, if I were to guess.

 

[old_prof]

Last night, @old_prof told me he found my cat.

Well, okay, maybe not literally, but I woke up with a half-remembered dream involving me searching for my lost cat and eventually receiving some kind of message that he has it and I should go pick it up.

Having checked that the feline in question was in fact snoring in the shower all along, I have to conclude that @old_prof has played an out-of-season April Fool’s joke at my expense. Probably for his contest story, if I were to guess.

I suppose in some ways I should be flattered?

To be blunt, you're not high on the list of people I would like to think are dreaming about me. And I guess I wouldn't object to me finding their pussy in their dream.

Close by no cigar for me. And that has its own range of dream interpretations.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've heard from me, 20-40 with a left eye stigmatism. Taking the weekend to decide between glasses and contacts, because if I get glasses, I'll need the damn rose-colored dyslexia coating. I'd be paying over a thousand bucks for them. Sheshs, I hate the fucking dyslexia.

Question: Has anyone heard from @MillieDynamite today? She has an eye exam, and I'm so wanting to hear how bad her eyesight has gotten. She's never had to wear glasses for anything but dyeslixa. Feeling guility about the pleasure I had when she told me she needed glasses.

 

[MrPixel]

You guys are nuts.

Still coming down from the margarita with lunch. It was quiet save for a trio of older ladies loud-talking, they were in the opposite corner of the restaurant. One or two had to be hard of hearing, as C & I couldn't have a civil exchange without being interrupted. We tried to have a conversation about the soccer/futbol game playing on two TVs; I was trying to mansplain the game, to no avail. 1-0 when we left.

Margarita was warranted today. I came home from PT totally sore from the leg exercises in their trying to restore my sense of balance. Eyes closed standing in the balance rig was not encouraging. For so little effect it had on anything else, the stroke four years ago seems to have left traces.

Making real progress on a new story. Only 4.4K at this point, but more inspiration waiting for keystrokes. Maybe done tomorrow?

 

[MrPixel]

I've heard from me, 20-40 with a left eye stigmatism. Taking the weekend to decide between glasses and contacts, because if I get glasses, I'll need the damn rose-colored dyslexia coating.

Don't forget that contacts have their own ongoing burden, and 20/40 isn't all that bad, really. Don't know if contacts are going address dyslexia, anyway.

It would be kinda nice to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. Things in general are sort of awful these days.

 

[MillieDynamite]

No, they won't, but I have lined glasses, or the rose colored I can wear over them then. It'll save me money in one way, but contacts are an ongoing expense.

Don't forget that contacts have their own onlgoing burden, and 20/40 isn't all that bad, really. Don't know if contacts are going address dyslexia, anyway.

It would be kinda nice to look at the world through rose-colored glasses. Things in general are sort of awful these days.

 

[Duleigh]

I was trying to mansplain the game, to no avail.

"It's like hockey, but really, really boring."
There. I mansplained it for you.

 

[Rustyoznail]

No, they won't, but I have lined glasses, or the rose colored I can wear over them then. It'll save me money in one way, but contacts are an ongoing expense.

Have a look at Zenni.com, or other o/s suppliers. My multifocals were much cheaper.

 

[Duleigh]

I'd be paying over a thousand bucks for them. Sheshs, I hate the fucking dyslexia.

I know the feeling - I went to the VA for my bi-annual blood pressure boost by trying to get a working pair of glasses. They sent me to a civilian doctor because *reasons* This trip was 30 miles one way to the doctor and 35 miles one way to the VA office where I'd get my glasses fitted. The first pair of glasses came back HORRIBLY wrong. Everything was warped and out of focus and it made me nausea. I complained and they looked at my glasses and said the company who made the glasses got something wrong. No problem. The second pair came back worse. They blamed that on the civilian doctor. The third pair came back with the left eye perfect, the right eye as bad as the first time, so they sent me to another doctor, the fourth pair came back as bad as the first pair, so a technician examined my eyes and the fifth pair came back and worked perfectly... but they weren't bifocals. I couldn't see to read. So I went to a civilian doctor in a nearby town and bought a proper eye exam and a pair of glasses. With the price of gas and glasses I figure it cost about a thousand bucks.

Post Script: I tired to claim milage with the VA but they refused to pay for my milage because I saw VA Contractors, not VA employees.

Come the veterans revolution, the first against the wall........

 

[Rustyoznail]

"There was three in the bed and the little one said -Hello!"

Saturday, 6am. Dog nudged my elbow and grizzled. Let him out for round and round - our command for him to have a pee and a poo.

Doggy door clunked, pad pad pad down the passage, then WOMP! About 40 kg (85lbs) of golden retriever lands on the bed between us. That was unexpected. I can't get him to jump into the back of the car, which is lower.

After being licked, shoved, and dramatic head flops, we had to get up. There's no room for three of us...

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I have NO idea what any of that means.

A B-52 is Tia Maria, Baileys and Cointreau served as a layered shot.

No clue about the rest of them, and.not.just because my student years involved drinking rather a lot of B-52s...

 

[Candy_Kane54]

B-52s were a band in the eighties known for the song, "Love Shack."

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Popped in to make sure a pot of coffee was ready. See you in the morning.

 

[MrPixel]

Varifocals? Tried 'em once, swore never again. "You'll get used to 'em!" Nuh uh. Horrid. Single-vision for distance, and cheaters for reading. Done.

I have my own journey down that road coming at the end of April. There is such a dearth of optometrists in our area appointments are four months out! I already got screwed on that once - had an appointment, waited it out only to be told when I showed-up that the doctor assigned to me had left the practice the prior week, and the next available appointment was... yes... another four months away. It took a major amount of restraint to not tell the poor receptionist where she could stuff it, that I didn't care who the practitioner was, I needed an eye exam and it was on them to accommodate me in their practice. Apparently this was not how they worked.

So I scheduled with my previous eye doc's office, but a different practitioner, again four months. I didn't care for the original guy 'cause he screwed us by ordering three months' worth of a very expensive prescription my wife had an allergic reaction to immediately. Anyway, I'm likely to be told the cataract is "ripe" in my right eye and due for replacement. Left was done in 2019 and has been fine with fixed distance vision. I anticipate an argument about a close-up lens in the right, my brain will sort it out, but, no, it's going to be distance just like the left for no glasses to drive, and I'll continue with cheaters for inside stuff.

I'm really sour on the vision health system right now. Too many monopolies calling the shots at all levels, and I have to wonder why in the F vision health is excluded from Medicare. If you really want to get angry and wonder why anything vision is so expensive, check out how much of the industry is owned by Luxottica.

[...grumble...]

 

[AloneTooLong]

Varifocals? Tried 'em once, swore never again. "You'll get used to 'em!" Nuh uh. Horrid. Single-vision for distance, and cheaters for reading. Done.

I have my own journey down that road coming at the end of April. There is such a dearth of optometrists in our area appointments are four months out! I already got screwed on that once - had an appointment, waited it out only to be told when I showed-up that the doctor assigned to me had left the practice the prior week, and the next available appointment was... yes... another four months away. It took a major amount of restraint to not tell the poor receptionist where she could stuff it, that I didn't care who the practitioner was, I needed an eye exam and it was on them to accommodate me in their practice. Apparently this was not how they worked.

So I scheduled with my previous eye doc's office, but a different practitioner, again four months. I didn't care for the original guy 'cause he screwed us by ordering three months' worth of a very expensive prescription my wife had an allergic reaction to immediately. Anyway, I'm likely to be told the cataract is "ripe" in my right eye and due for replacement. Left was done in 2019 and has been fine with fixed distance vision. I anticipate an argument about a close-up lens in the right, my brain will sort it out, but, no, it's going to be distance just like the left for no glasses to drive, and I'll continue with cheaters for inside stuff.

I'm really sour on the vision health system right now. Too many monopolies calling the shots at all levels, and I have to wonder why in the F vision health is excluded from Medicare. If you really want to get angry and wonder why anything vision is so expensive, check out how much of the industry is owned by Luxottica.

[...grumble...]

My Part B provider includes vision; I get a 'discount' once a year on glasses; ophthalmologist costs me a co-pay of $35.00; my retinalogist also costs me $35.00 per visit plus $15.00 for the meds they inject (Age related Macular Degeneration--"wet" version in right eye thus the injection--"dry" version in left eye).

At the beginning of treatment I was going every 4 weeks; now it is better controlled every 16 weeks. That first year was pretty rough--40 mile one way trip. I get my glasses from eyebuydirect.com.

 

[MrPixel]

My Part B provider includes vision;

Who do you have? I'm on Aetna. What's odd is I think they used to, because I recall the examinations I had a few years ago were only $20 for the refraction, but I still had to pay for frames and lenses. If exams were dropped from the policy, then I missed it, shame on me.

I'm mostly doing it now because my MD says I need to be checked for eye issues because I'm borderline diabetic. I've noticed changes in my right, just focus issues. Enough correction in my current driving glasses to compensate; but I know it could be better.