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Jun. 28th, 2010 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakFriday's session with my new contacts went marginally better. Marginally. But I finked out on my contacts all weekend. Going to try again this afternoon. If I can't get up to at least six hours at a stretch by the end of the week, I am giving up.
If I get to that goal, but find myself unable to even consider driving with them in by the end of July, I am giving up. Right now, I cannot open my eyes more than halfway when they are in for more than a few seconds, and frankly that's just unacceptable for driving. It also completely obliterates the two-lines-on-the-chart improvement my optometrist claims I experience. I tried pointing out to her that I had to squint rather a lot to see that line, but she brushed it off as a side effect of the first day of wear. Sigh.
Followup appt. is July 1st.
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Finally got the letter I was expecting from UW-Milwaukee. Unfortunately, it was a form letter declining to send me a transcript because I still have a hold on my records. >_< I suspect it's just an old library fine or somesuch, but it still vexes me beyond expression. I have to call the Bursar's Office later today to straighten it out.
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Updating my FB albums with Zodling photos, so my mom will stop hinting that she wishes we'd email her more pics. ^_^ Also, trying to win the 'cutest grandson' competition with my sil. She's got tons of photos of Aiden up, and they're darned cute.
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Mildly boggling at the idea that my husband, as part of his back-to-basics conservatism, thinks national parks aren't really within the purview of the federal government, and selling one or two of them off to pay the national debt, such as Yellowstone, while too unpopular to ever be done, would still be the wisest course of action for our nation. Nevermind that we'd be losing a great national treasure, and a valuable safe space for all those tasty game animals he likes so much. Nevermind that Theodore Roosevelt was not exactly a hippie commie treehugger.
He also thinks the city gov. of CO Springs, in the face of it's current budget crisis, ought to sell off some of its smaller parks. I learned this while discussing the front page article of the local paper. We already knew that the local gov. had had to cut back severely on park maintenance because of the bad economy. What we didn't know was that the parks budget, over the course of the last two years, shrank from a little over 20 million, to just over three million. At the same time, the local water utility raised rates by 66%.
I said that while I deplored the necessity of ceasing to water all but the four busiest and highest-earning parks, I could understand it. I was just afraid that the level of neglect would come back to bite taxpayers on the ass when the economy perks up eventually and the parks need massive maintenance.
Dav said he thinks the city gov. should sell the parks it can't afford to maintain, and allow small businesses such as gas stations or McDonald's or mini-markets to take their place.
Ok. I do suspect there's a few neighborhoods around here in danger of becoming 'food deserts', which could use small grocery stores.
But then those neighborhoods would lose valuable green space. Furthermore, in this economy, where does he imagine buyers for these properties will come from?
I love conservatives. I just don't grasp their logic much of the time. ^_^;
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We went to Cheyenne Mountain State Park on Sunday, and had a great time. :D Jack rode in his 'Master-Blaster' carrier on Dav, and I held mark's hand, to keep him more-or-less on the trail and prevent him from grabbing cactuses. Both boys, amazingly, kept their hats on most of the hike. Nobody got sunburn. And we finished a hike of maybe two miles just in time to get to the car before it started raining.
It's a gorgeous park. We plan on going back a lot. And we're hoping to bring Dav's parents there if we can get them to come visit before winter sets in. :D
If I get to that goal, but find myself unable to even consider driving with them in by the end of July, I am giving up. Right now, I cannot open my eyes more than halfway when they are in for more than a few seconds, and frankly that's just unacceptable for driving. It also completely obliterates the two-lines-on-the-chart improvement my optometrist claims I experience. I tried pointing out to her that I had to squint rather a lot to see that line, but she brushed it off as a side effect of the first day of wear. Sigh.
Followup appt. is July 1st.
***
Finally got the letter I was expecting from UW-Milwaukee. Unfortunately, it was a form letter declining to send me a transcript because I still have a hold on my records. >_< I suspect it's just an old library fine or somesuch, but it still vexes me beyond expression. I have to call the Bursar's Office later today to straighten it out.
***
Updating my FB albums with Zodling photos, so my mom will stop hinting that she wishes we'd email her more pics. ^_^ Also, trying to win the 'cutest grandson' competition with my sil. She's got tons of photos of Aiden up, and they're darned cute.
***
Mildly boggling at the idea that my husband, as part of his back-to-basics conservatism, thinks national parks aren't really within the purview of the federal government, and selling one or two of them off to pay the national debt, such as Yellowstone, while too unpopular to ever be done, would still be the wisest course of action for our nation. Nevermind that we'd be losing a great national treasure, and a valuable safe space for all those tasty game animals he likes so much. Nevermind that Theodore Roosevelt was not exactly a hippie commie treehugger.
He also thinks the city gov. of CO Springs, in the face of it's current budget crisis, ought to sell off some of its smaller parks. I learned this while discussing the front page article of the local paper. We already knew that the local gov. had had to cut back severely on park maintenance because of the bad economy. What we didn't know was that the parks budget, over the course of the last two years, shrank from a little over 20 million, to just over three million. At the same time, the local water utility raised rates by 66%.
I said that while I deplored the necessity of ceasing to water all but the four busiest and highest-earning parks, I could understand it. I was just afraid that the level of neglect would come back to bite taxpayers on the ass when the economy perks up eventually and the parks need massive maintenance.
Dav said he thinks the city gov. should sell the parks it can't afford to maintain, and allow small businesses such as gas stations or McDonald's or mini-markets to take their place.
Ok. I do suspect there's a few neighborhoods around here in danger of becoming 'food deserts', which could use small grocery stores.
But then those neighborhoods would lose valuable green space. Furthermore, in this economy, where does he imagine buyers for these properties will come from?
I love conservatives. I just don't grasp their logic much of the time. ^_^;
***
We went to Cheyenne Mountain State Park on Sunday, and had a great time. :D Jack rode in his 'Master-Blaster' carrier on Dav, and I held mark's hand, to keep him more-or-less on the trail and prevent him from grabbing cactuses. Both boys, amazingly, kept their hats on most of the hike. Nobody got sunburn. And we finished a hike of maybe two miles just in time to get to the car before it started raining.
It's a gorgeous park. We plan on going back a lot. And we're hoping to bring Dav's parents there if we can get them to come visit before winter sets in. :D
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Date: 2010-06-28 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-28 07:10 pm (UTC)I can understand, if not always agree with, small-government, strong military, states rights, fiscal responsibility, etc. Hating on shared national green space and the like just makes no sense to me.
Your heroism at that picnic deserves an e-cupcake. ^_^