...but in the continual effort to make a living, I'm now including google ads on my site. I will, of course, remove them once I get on the Times Bestseller list (ha ha), but for now Bertha needs some gas BAD! ;)

On a positive note, I experienced another grim sign of aging today when the optometrist diagnosed astigmatism in my left eye. I had to wander around Costco with a pager for awhile, waiting to see if I could adjust to the new contact which felt like it was bigger than my eyeball. It's weighted somehow, but I'm sure knowing that had nothing to do with the fact that every time I blinked I felt like the weights were spinning crazily around the bottom. I was asked for a 1-10 comfort scale and gave it a 6, somewhere between wanting to gouge my eye out and not feeling anything.

Of course, when I said what I was looking for, the doc cheerfully assured me that hardly anyone gets to that elusive place where you don't know you're wearing them. With my expectations thus demoted, we tried the next brand and it seems to be a lot more comfortable. In fact, as I type this almost two hours later I can hardly feel a thing.