Too Fancy for Me!

April Fool's day was a very long day and had it's interesting and frustrating moments.

I started off headed to Prairie Village to work, after which I was headed to the airport to fly to Phoenix.

I had been experiencing a weird eye thing since Friday, when I had noticed a flashing light when I looked to the right. It happened a few times, then quit, but following that, the vision in my right eye was messed up. It was like my glasses were dirty and blurred my vision. I kept cleaning them, but it wouldn't clear up. I could squint and blink and it might be better for a few minutes, but overall was irritating. I had decided I definitely would need to see the eye doctor when I returned in 10 days. However, on the drive to Prairie Village, the film on my eye was worse, to the point that at times I couldn't read the street signs with my right eye. The left eye works fine, but it's hard to keep the right one closed all the time. I even thought about how to rig up an eye patch to cover the right one up. I finally decided that waiting 10 days to see what was going on was not a good idea. I only have two eyes and I like both of them. I called and was able to get an 11:15 appointment with the eye doctor.

I drove onto the facility and went in to tell the DON that I wasn't going to stay and described my eye thing to her. She said, "Sounds like a detached retina to me". Hmmm. I hadn't thought of that. I went back to the car, got my phone and googled 'detached retine' and there were all my symptoms in a nice list, EXACTLY!. And I had to wait two hours to see the doctor.

The good news is that I do not have a detached retina, but I do have "posterior vitreous detachment", which means, when I saw those flashes of light, the gelatinous filling in my eyeball pulled away from the back of my eye. It's a normal part of aging. Wonderful, I'm normal. The film does not go away, but apparently you get used to it? So it was on to the airport at 7 and on to Phoenix.

I arrived in Phoenix at 8:30 PM their time, (10:30 my time) and when I picked up my car in space H-8, it was a fancy BMW SUV. I loaded my stuff, then attached my Ipod to the Auxiliary connection and could not figure out how to get it to play. I pushed buttons, turned buttons, and hit buttons, but could not get it to play. I finally decided to drive to the office and ask someone to show me, but then couldn't figure out how to get the car in gear. The shift doesn't move, it clicks, and I could not get it to the right gear. I finally was able to hit drive and drove up to the office. A very nice lady who appeared older than me, (but I'm not much of an expert on appearances, since I think I look about 40) came out to help me and admitted she didn't have a clue, but was very pleasant about it. While talking to her I finally twirled the button and my Ipod started playing! After several attempts I was able to get the car in reverse and backed up, turned around, found drive and headed to the exit, where, I found out I was in the wrong car. The one I was supposed to be driving was a Dodge SUV in space M-8. And after I had finally figured everything out. April Fools on me!

Back to the starting point, unload, reload, attached the Ipod and put it in gear. Everything works just fine.