The skies are clear here in the Rust Belt today. One of our sixty days of clarity so far as weather goes. I know that alcoholics speak of a 'moment of clarity' in their quest for sobriety. Perhaps God intended us living here to be meteorological drunks who stagger from cloudy day to cloudy day until, every once in a while, we see the light.
My personal quest for clear vision goes on. Friday I find out when I can finally get these cataracts lasered off my head. I had to sit three feet from my television last night to see the shapes of the faces on the Downton Abbey conclusion. It's more like a radio program one listens to rather than focus on.
My furniture maker stopped by Saturday to drink the last of my single malt scotch and take photographs of his work. He pointed out a few flaws in the paint job, but my out of focus vision can easily dismiss those spots.
Work is going well. I got a call from a tenant Friday about her inspection scheduled for today. She asked me if I knew what bedbugs look like. A grand way to start a week!
You'll love your cataract surgery Nosmo--it is truly a medical miracle going immediately from trying to see through a fogged over glass to the vision of your youth--sometimes even better than it ever was. You'll probably even see the flaws in that furniture.
Do you know what bedbugs look like?
I've heard some bad things about the multiple lens, ones that are supposed to correct both near and far sightedness. If I would rather wear evading glasses rather than glasses for driving. If I could just read highway signs and house numbers!
And, yes I do know more about bedbugs than I should.
My office is on the first floor of an eleven story apartment building that has been basically over run by bedbugs. Our extermination method is a heat treatment that warms up the apartment to a cozy 140 degrees followed by a chemical spray and a curious powder through which bedbugs refuse to walk.
But the idiots who live here keep bringing in furniture from disreputable sources! The extermination is like painting the Golden Gate bridge! Once you're finished, you have to start all over again!