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 ML> be back in Boston in a couple months to discuss
 ML> things with the optometrist.
 NB> By then, any getting adjusted should have pretty much worked itself
 NB> out, and what's left might be errors or unfixables... 

I don't want unfixables and errors! Turns out there are
some issues regarding certain eye-brain relations that have
been made worse, especially when I'm tired, such as now.
I know it's early in the morning, but I didn't get to bed
until 0400.

 ML>> plus there are prismatic effects (colors resolving
 ML>> into primaries - i.e., stuff like green becoming
 ML>> bands of blue and yellow - when I am not looking
 ML>> straight in front of me). 
 NB>> That might be something to do with the lenses themselves...
 ML> Could indeed. One of the questions I will ask.
 NB> Good idea. :)

Funnily, in these couple weeks, though the phenomenon
persists, it's only there there when I decide to notice
it. Rest of the time it's only sort of there.

 ML> It's beginning - the optimal focal distances for various
 ML> things have worked out, and a proper adjustment of the
 ML> position of the glasses (difficult until the nosepieces
 ML> get fixed in July) clears up the appropriate field and
 ML> blurs out others!
 NB> Progress.  :)

Some. But I'm not getting used to being able to read
fine print almost at arm's length and not when it's
closer by. I wonder what my effective focal distance
actually is now for reading. It's said I'm better than
3 diopters now, which I haven't been since the 1950s.

 NB>> Good advice... :)  After the cataract surgery, I was told it could
 NB>> take even longer to get used to some things... I still see the edges
 NB>> of the new implanted lenses when I'm in low light...
 ML> So will this persist, or will your eyes or brain
 ML> adjust and censor this out?
 NB> The first answer I was given was that the eyes/brain should adjust. 

For example, I read "catarack" and actually had to go
back to verify that u cld spel after all. Closing the
eyes for a few seconds helps a bit.

The eyes/brain adkusting thing (oh, there I go again)
was part of the song and dance both the ophthalmologist
and optician gave me at the hospital. Unfortunately, my
brain ain't what it used to be, and my eyes never were.

 NB> But when it persisted, the answer I got was that sometimes it doesn't
 NB> just get censored out, but that eventually, the edges should get more
 NB> cloudy and not be so distracting...  I'm not sure how encouraging that
 NB> really is... ;)

If you're keen on noticing things, not so much, but one
makes compromises in one's old age, doesn't one.

 ML> Though on occasion things have become bad enough that
 ML> I have been forced to grab the wheel for a second and
 ML> gently guide us on the right path. That in my legally
 ML> blind days.
 NB> True, some days one just can't win...  ;)

Tomorrow, Sunday, I have a flight that leaves before the
public trans does, so I was going to do the SuperShuttle
thing, but my brother suggested that we do the arrangement
we'd done before - I pay him to drive me in the amount
that I'd spend on the common carrier. In a moment of
weakness I agreed (the kid says I'll have to wake him, a
bad thing, as he doesn't wake up fully for hours). 

 ML>> than the 3 to 3.5 oz they are; also, I could discern
 ML>> now by sight the bready filler. 
 NB>> Oh, dear... ;(
 ML> Always was able to by taste, anyhow.
 NB> True... now you just have the confirmation... ;)

Visual confirmation of real experience? Nah.

 ML> Funny thing. A nonzero number of friends have suggested
 ML> that I would be frightened off by them once I actually
 ML> was able to see what they actually looked like. So far
 ML> that has not happened.
 NB> Were they serious...?  perhaps, insecure...?
 
Sort of jokey, like old Bodle (before your time) saying
that he was so ugly falling objects avoided his head.
But these jokes are based in insecurity. Not a good
tendency: I say I'm ugly/stupid/clumsy to forestall the
pain of having other people say it.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v7.04

      Title: Kiwifruit Sorbet **
 Categories: Desserts, Freezer, Fruits, Ice cream
   Servings:  4

------------------------------PATTI - VDRJ67A------------------------------
      1 c  Water   
    1/2 c  Sugar
    1/2 c  Light corn syrup
      4    Kiwifruits; pared
      5 ts Lemon juice
    1/4 ts Grated lemon peel

  Combine water, sugar and corn syrup in saucepan. cook and stir 2 min
  or until sugar is dissolved. Puree kiwifruit in food processor or blender
  to equal 3/4 cup puree. Add lemon juice, lemon peel and sugar mixture.
  Pour into shallow metal pan; freeze about 1 hr or until firm but not
  solid. Spoon into chilled bowl and beat with electric mixer until light
  and fluffy. Return to freezer; freeze 2 hr or until firm enough to
  scoop.

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