isabelladangelo

I worked a little on the bathing suit last night and it seemed a little loose. I know it's fingering weight, but I still want bathing suits dense. Even though it's only a few rows long, I did my best to measure gauge. The Twice Sheared Sheep gauge ruler is so nice! It kept looking like 8 stitches an inch. I measured the whole thing, and although there are 4 stitches cast on at the end of each row and that makes measuring not accurate, it was consistently longer, and math said 8 stitches an inch. The little steps from casting on were also half an inch. So all signs pointed to the gauge being off.

I just did a quick swatch om size 0 needles, and it looks like 9 stitches an inch and is nicely dense. I swatched the first time in black because that's what I had easily available. I knew that was a bad idea!

My size 0s have an annoying bend in them, so I ordered new ones. I can start on them though. The annoying cast on four, cast on at the end of each row part.

I'm glad I admitted something wasn't right early. I've had to redo part of so many projects because it'll be ok! It's never ok if you have to convince yourself!

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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

koshka_the_cat

My right eye is done! Less than two hours after surgery, everything looks amazing! I'm so glad I went with a little more near vision in this eye. I'm wearing reading glasses to type this, but I can see things well enough and it will only get better. It's 1-3 days for swelling and blurriness to go away enough to make a difference.

And I'm still dilated. I'm so over being dilated. I mean, I get it and am thankful it exists, but still.

But I'm eating toast and getting caffeinated and will probably nap. Follow up appointment tomorrow!(With double dilation!)

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Last night I started seeing black dots. I didn't think too much of it. It was just in front of the lamp and, strangely, the toaster. There's a light just above it.

Today at work, black things on all the lights. Um. The red squiggly things arrived. Um.

I called the eye doctor. They said they'd call back. They didn't, so I went in. They said they called at 12:27 to tell me come in as soon as possible. I said I didn't get the call, but was able to get a 3:15 appointment. She was so nice. I thanked her loads.

I was afraid something had happened to my retina. The symptoms weren't exact, but when you just went through a retina scare and have always been told, you're so nearsighted that you might have retina issues, your mind goes there.

But my retina is fine. It's probably just floaters. I can have my second surgery tomorrow! I'm so ready!

Any typos are the fault of dilation...

koshka_the_cat

I'm so looking forward to my second eye being done on Tuesday. It's so exhausting having drastically different vision. I just woke up from a two hour nap and took an almost five hour nap yesterday.

And I started the bathing suit! I hope my swatch was correct and it is nine stitches an inch. It should fit without alterations.

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koshka_the_cat

The trick in today's puzzle almost did me in. I knew what the acrosses on the affected answers were, but I had no idea what to do about it. I read the blog, then used the key to help figure it out. And find typos or mistakes. Ack.

1618 day streak! Whew!

koshka_the_cat

The three days of testing had me fooled. I actually had to teach today and was SO TIRED. Mismatched vision is exhausting!

I'm so ready for Tuesday!

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koshka_the_cat

There's always literal blood during testing. This time one of my best students had a bloody nose.

Sometimes it's other things. I'm glad when I was out sick during testing and missed the kid who vomited so much my room and the room next door had to be evacuated for the smell.

Today I had a new one. One of my best students said she had a weird question. Did I have a toothpick? She was biting her nails and got one stuck in her teeth. Poor kid!

Anyway, testing is done! For me, anyway. The librarian is going to do the math testing since I'll be out for my second eye surgery.

koshka_the_cat

I had my one week eye appointment and it went well. I need to switch to three instead of four drops of the steroid eye drop and start another. So many eye drops!

I'm going to get a little more near vision in my right eye. Right now, I think it's just past fingertip length for it to be clear, which is a little awkward for things like cooking. I know it's not the permanent vision, but since my doctor suggested a little more near last appointment, it sounded good.

He said I'd lose some distance and might need glasses to drive at night, but that's fine. I'll trade some distance for some near. And I can have LASIK if needed. Hopefully not, but it's good to know!

I'm so ready for Tuesday!

koshka_the_cat

I've had my new car a year today. It feels like I just got it.

Watching testing today also felt like a year. So boring...

koshka_the_cat

Monday accomplished

And my poor mom. She has the flu or something similar. We've been staying apart since she figured out she was sick, but we didn't avoid each other the day she got sick. *fingers crossed* I didn't get it on Saturday.

koshka_the_cat

I'm glad I had so much practice with my eyes being weird and taking off glasses and putting things inches from my face to help me through between surgery time.

For distance, things are ok enough and amazing when I cover my right eye. So if I'm walking around a lot, I cover it.

My mom's full frame +3 reading glasses make reading nice and clear--if I cover my right eye. And everything in my perephrial vision is weird. Today I had to go to the store (walked around with one eye covered) and randomly found a display of reading glasses. The highest strength they had was +2, which isn't quite strong enough, but they're half glasses and rimless, and don't distort peripheral vision and I can wear them without covering one eye. +2.5 half frames might be better, but I'm not trying for perfection during this between time.

If I really need to see something, I can still lift it to my right eye. Like, two or three inches away. The nearsighted extremely good close up vision distance has been getting shorter and shorter.

I am so ready for surgery number two!

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I keep forgetting to post about this: we've been troubleshooting the "missing notifications" problem for the past few days. (Well, I say "we", really I mean Mark and Robby; I'm just the amanuensis.) It's been one of those annoying loops of "find a logical explanation for what could be causing the problem, fix that thing, observe that the problem gets better for some people but doesn't go away completely, go back to step one and start again", sigh.

Mark is hauling out the heavy debugging ordinance to try to find the root cause. Once he's done building all the extra logging tools he needs, he'll comment to this entry. After he does, if you find a comment that should have gone to your inbox and sent an email notification but didn't, leave him a link to the comment that should have sent the notification, as long as the comment itself was made after Mark says he's collecting them. (I'd wait and post this after he gets the debug code in but I need to go to sleep and he's not sure how long it will take!)

We're sorry about the hassle! Irregular/sporadic issues like this are really hard to troubleshoot because it's impossible to know if they're fixed or if they're just not happening while you're looking. With luck, this will give us enough information to figure out the root cause for real this time.

koshka_the_cat

I slept until 11 and just took a nap. Weekends are nice...

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