Who Beat up Chris?

I look like I got the smack knocked out of me.

I'm taking a few days off for medical leave. I've written in the past about my fun with my rare sinus condition (the condition's rare, that is, not the sinus. Though, I am fond of my sinuses...I digress). The end game of the sinus issue was reconstructive surgery on Thursday to get my left eye back in proper alignment with the right eye.

Interestingly, the procedure was basic carpentry. The surgeon shimmed up my eye by placing semi-hard silicon implants under the eye to bring it level with the other eye.

I'm still working through how I feel about being shimmed up like a recalcitrant door in an old house. But, if you're interested, this is how I look the day after. The immediate recovery includes enduring some nasty double vision as my brain works out how to make a single, good image out of two that are now - quite suddenly - aligned, after two or more years of slow, progressive disalignment.

The double vision should correct itself after a time. In the meantime, I'm working my eyes out reading all sorts of things. I also caught the Chelsea-West Ham match this morning and the Man. U.-Tottenham game yesterday.

Carol Ostrom writes about density, space and our personal senses of space in the Pacific Northwest magazine. How are we going to go about increasing the density of our urban communities and how will we accommodate the needed changes in our comfort with density? (and I learned a new word: Proxemics).

The suburban cities of the Hylebos (FDub, Fife, Milton, Edgewood) all have pretty significant economic development needs. How will those be affected by the current (and yet to come) economic challenges? And how the heck did Bothell get so lucky?

Comments

[Kasey]

hey daddy why didn't you put up the picture of katie punching yo face????