Today I had an eye exam appointment at 3, so I had planned to do some shopping first and then go to my appointment which meant I needed to get it going today.
But, when I awoke, I just didn’t feel like getting up so I threw my plans out the window and stayed in bed for another hour or so.
Once I got it going I went out to take care of the chicken’s feed and water and then set off for some shopping.
Shopping time
Since I had a late start I changed all my shopping plans. I had to shorten things up if I wanted to make my eye appointment on time.
I was going to go get some more wire fencing to help control the chickens in the yard but the store that had the wire was way south of were I needed to be at three so I said to heck with the wire and went north to shop at a home depot and a Walmart.
Slowest checker ever
I did ok at Home Depot, but at Wally’s it was a bust. I got my stuff and went to the checkers. The two lines were both long so I picked the one with the people that had the least amount of stuff in their baskets, but it was a bust. The checker outer was the slowest guy I’ve ever been in line with. He took forever with each customer especially the lady with a lot of clothes to ring up. He was with her for the longest time that I started up a conversation with the guy and his wife behind me kidding about it all. It was a good thing I had some extra time on hand and they were lucky they weren’t in a hurry either.
Shopped out
Well I was so long in line there I didn’t go to the next store on my list which was ok with me as I was already shopped out.
I finally got to the cash register and made it through ok. When I left I wished the couple in back of me a nice day and said it has to go better now that it was their turn and left.
Snooze time
Of course that put me at the VA for my appointment about an hour early so I checked in and had a snooze in the waiting room. Lucky the eye exam waiting room is a real quiet one.
Personable Doc
My eye exam Doc is a real personable type guy that seems to enjoy his work a lot and is very good at what he does.
He did an exam on them and sent me to the lady that gets the classes ordered.
Picking out glasses
She had a bunch of classes on the wall and said to pick out a pair.
Hummmm, too many to pick from but those with the black wire frames look ok. I tried them on and they fit and didn’t fall off or anything so she took some measurements and that was it. They’d come in the mail within three weeks.
That was the main thing I wanted to get accomplished today. My eyes are doing pretty good for my age, no cataracts and I mostly just need reading type classes with some small correction for seeing far.
Headed on home
Good to go so I headed on home just in time to let the chickens out to graze for the day.
I let them out and since my eyes were still dilated I mostly just sat around in my chair being a shepherd for the chickens.
It’s interesting. If I want the chickens to eat in a certain area I just sit in that area and talk to them a bit and they feed all around me mostly.
The goody man
I think they just hang around as they don’t want to miss any possible goodies as I’m the main goody provider.
Anyway even though I didn’t get all my shopping done it was a good day. Always good to hear one’s eyes are ding ok, eh.
Glad your eye checkup was a good one, that is always good news. There are always so many frames to choose from and we are basically plain people too. My frames are plastic and Bill likes the wire ones.
I know it doesn’t help workers but we tend to go to self checkouts if the lines are long.
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There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
Glad your eye checkup was a good one, that is always good news. There are always so many frames to choose from and we are basically plain people too. My frames are plastic and Bill likes the wire ones.
I know it doesn’t help workers but we tend to go to self checkouts if the lines are long.