Australia Day Festivities

Saturday Night I went to a friends house in Balham for a party. It was a very antipodean affair aimed at celebrating Australia Day.
It took me back to the heady days of student parties. Lots of empty beer cans and plastic glasses littering every available flat surface. Vodka Jelly welcome wagons and lots and lots of drunken people.
I arrived with another antipodean friend from Melbourne who is going out home next week. He’ll be meeting up with me in Sydney for Mardi Gras and then I’ll be travelling to Melbourne to see him for a few days.
I figure I should see a bit more of Oz this time around.
They had hired a DJ at this party too – very swish affair it was 😉 Well actually Dave the DJ came as part of a package – his girlfriend was one of the party people! I’ve decided I like Dave though – he was using an iBook and iTunes mixing with CD’s and other cool stuff. He brought his own lighting and crab laser. So I may be asking him to come to mine in a fortnight – he can hook my cube up with his iBook and have lots of fun 😉

LASIK

The surgery itself was not as scary as I had convinced myself it would be.
Saturday I went along with Glenn to hold my hand. I’d already been to the The Eye Clinic for my initial consultation a fortnight ago so this was the real deal. The consultation with the surgeon and the operation.
To say I was nervous was an understatement – thankfully though we were distracted by the other people waiting surgery and the rather cute receptionist.
In fact it was all I could do not to drool when I was finalising some of my details.
They took another scan of my eyes – like a topographical map of the peaks and troughs. It looked kind of cool – I’ve asked for a copy so I can scan it in 🙂

After a few coffees and a chat with the surgeon it was time to go through to the laser suite and be kitted out for the operation. I was shaking by this point wondering if this was all a good idea.
Thankfully the staff are obviously used to this and they calmed me right down – joking and taking my mind of the impending operation.
When I went into the theatre I was suprised how many people were involved – people working the laser others working the microkeratome [it’s a can opener basically which creates the corneal flap].
It was all over very very quickly although they assure me I was in there for 20 minutes. It was uncomfortable but certainly not painful. I would rather go through that again than have a filling at the dentist.
I was scared to open my eyes afterwards you know in case anything fell out of my eye – thankfully though it all worked perfectly.
After a sit down to calm my nerves it was in a cab back home. It was all over.

I slept most of the day and night and then headed back with David to the clinic for my initial check up – the result were good – no redness and 20:20 vision in my right eye and better than 20:20 in my left. No irritaion and It felt fantastic to be able to see clearly without aid.
So that’s it all over – another few check ups along the way – the first on friday – just to make sure everything is healing as well as it should and some drops to lkeep my eyes moist for a while.
I am relieved and happy and can’t wait to go on holiday and be able to wear regular sunglasses :o)

looking for any old excuse

to not continue writing a consultancy document for work. It’s one of my 3 month Goals I was given last week and although the subject matter interests me [Rich Media] writing the actual documentation is boring as hell – oh and scary too – remember when you were at college and you would spend 5 hours formatting the damn thing before writing anything? well I am there now – wondering what to include where to include it and now generally procrastinating so I don’t have to think too hard.
Thinking after all has never been one of my strong points. In fact thinking and generally using my brain – unless I’m forced to is something I tend to avoid. So I may have to go revisit the laser game or something equally inane in order to stave of the work pangs which are trying to get me to write this doc and complete 1/3 of my goals in the first week.