Yes, not content with having flubbed Mount TBR 2012 in a weird and exhilarating way, I'm going to make another try at it. This really is like Brian Blessed making his attempts at summiting Everest, so in honour of that I'm going with the Mt. Everest level (100 books), taking along half a dozen Sherpas, a large tent, and a bloody great tank of ( Read more... )

Time for the update of my Mount TBR effort. As you'll see, the original list isn't as dented as it should be, and there are yet more additions of more recent vintage. The eyes continue to be an issue, so there's been a continued dependence on audiobooks, which now constitute the greater part of my purchases at the book sales, and the larger part of ( Read more... )

I keep trying to get up Everest here, but the visual impairment is definitely hampering me when it comes to the dead trees. There's no progress on the glasses front, mainly because everything got thrown into disarray when I went temporarily blind in the left eye. Amaurosis fugax, they say, and now the doctors are trying to figure out why it ( Read more... )

I finally gave in and changed the monitor resolution for the main monitor, because otherwise I can't read anything. It's still difficult ( Read more... )

Progress up the old slopes has been somewhat screwed up lately by dint of my eyes going all over the place -- see them run! -- with the multiple surgeries and my right eye being pretty much uncorrected while the left eye heals again (I need a monocle. And a bowler hat. And a budgie. And an eye patch. Arrrr....) As a consequence of the current ( Read more... )

Very, very briefly...over the last weekend I experienced a retinal detachment, and yesterday had emergency surgery to fix it. I'm presently still blind in my left eye, but should regain my vision in that eye over the next four weeks, with a full return in six months or so. I'm probably not going to be online much for a while, and I'm back to ( Read more... )

Well, this week is going to be entertaining. But first, under a cut --

( Good things, even )

In six hours I go under the knife for replacement lens surgery on my left eye, to replace the lens that's gone adrift and become distorted because of the way the eye surgeon did things in 2004. I'm finding it interesting that my reaction to this now is markedly more anxious than it was back then, although some of that might be the glossing of ( Read more... )

Life plods on, pretty much absent updates here from me. Things change, things shift, and apparently I've hit that stage of grief where everything pisses me off...especially when it's stuff severe enough to piss off anyoneI need to buy a new cane, as I lost my really good cane when someone half-inched it out of a grocery cart at Frys (no kidding; it ( Read more... )

And now, the entire list in one place, with annotations ( Read more... )