A Scott Odyssey

I am all set to move on July 1. I have 2 guys that work in my buildings maintanence department who will move my furniture from one building to another for a small fee. I don’t have that much big stuff so they can do it without hiring movers. I will move the rest of the stuff myself. My new (parents old) living room and dinning room set will arrive sometime in September. My mom was not just ready to redo her living room, so I don’t get stuff till then. I am getting an awsome couch and wall unit. The dining room table is ok, but I need one so I am not going to be picky. This stuff is sort of old. They bought it when I was in Junior High or early High School. I think JH. But my mom is a crazy cleaner and neat freak, so it looks like it did back then. The style is modern so it looks good.

I still need to call the cable company but other than that I think I am on target to move. More updates later.

Do you have a special favorite spot you like to go? Where you feel the most relaxed, or at “home”? I do. It is not anything fancy. I am most at peace sitting on my bed at home with the pillows propping my back up. I sit in this weird position with legs propping my laptop up. I am doing this as I write this blog. I put a pillow on my lap and play music, and just type. Recently, it is the blog I write, but I can write anything. Emails, letters, etc. Hand pain aside I could do this for hours. It is calming and I always fee at peace when I am done. I don’t know why I just thought of all this. I did a thing in school once where they asked that question “what is your favorite place to go that makes you feel at ease or safe”. I had no clue to the answer then and came up with some stupid response, but now I know what the teacher was talking about.

This is an entry that either you will go “what is Scott talking about”, or you get the gist of what I am getting at. I can say that I am relaxed sitting here now. I am going to bed in a few minutes. I hope to get a good night sleep and do some Scuba Diving Class research tomorrow. I want to take that class more than ever now. I need a good hobby, and I liked diving better than golf. More tomorrow.

So I went to the eye doctor. The results were not what I expected. No I cannot get La-sec surgery but the reason is not what I expected. Turns out my prescription changed. And it actually got better. So Dr. Marks (my eye doctor) does not want to do surgery since I am still slowly improving my eyesight. I can’t blame him, but I am still unhappy. He also gave me a new person to check out contacts with. her office is right in Union Square (3 blocks from my office).

I also got instructions for putting this gel goop in my eyes at night since they are really dry. I knew they were dry but I am being told that it is bad for them and I need to keep them moist or whatever if I want contacts. This stuff is supposed to help when sleeping. I will goto the drug store and get some. it will be weird putting on but I will try it.

Everyone at work thought I was crazy walking around inside with my sunglasses on all day. the drops never wear off quick with me. Dan thought I came from the matrix. he is a freak.

Tomorrow I am going into work late because I have an eye doctor appointment. It is my regular appointment I have every 2 years. Thankfully I don’t have to go every year like I did when I was younger. I am hoping that this year my doctor will say the La-sec (laser eye surgery) will actually help me. Up till now he said the surgery will not be as good as wearing glasses. if he says “i can get you to the prescription you have or better with surgery.” I am getting it. No question. If he says no to the surgery I am thinking of doing contacts again. I stopped because my eyes are too dry by nature, and I spend tons of time at a computer screen. FYI looking at a computer screen allot makes you blink less, thus dry eyes get even dryer. The other down side to contacts when I last had them was they cost like $500 a pair for me since I had special weighed lenses. Yes my eyes are really screwed up. Technology is improving so much I hope things have changed in that arena in the past 7 years.

I actually like going to the eye doctor because I always hope he has good news for me, like hey you don’t need glasses any more. It never actually happens, but I can dream. Hearing the news about the la-sec’s is good enough for me. On the down side I don’t react well to the eye dilation drops that he gives me. it always takes all day to return to normal and I can’t do much when my eyes are screwed up like that. Work tomorrow will be interesting!

Went with my family to my brother-in-laws family today. Well sort of family. It was a family friends house that they have been friends with forever. They are like family. If you know me, it is like the Stein’s for my family. They had an an awesome house with a nice in-ground pool on like 4 acres in Stamford CT. Nice place, but too far from the city for me. I had a good time. Mike pissed my sister off by dunking the baby in the pool. In my opinion the only thing wrong he did, was dunking her right in front of my sister and then not giving morgan to her when she started crying. Some things you don’t do in front of mom.

Not sure if we will do that trip again next year. The traffic sucked and my dad has a bad back. Sitting in the car is bad for him, or that is the excuse he uses. I guess this BBQ is an annual think, so we will see if we go next year.

I am spending most of my evening changing address’s on everything I can think of in planning my upcoming move. I got most of the magazines, the post office, the credit cards, and one cell phone company done. I still need to change my drivers license and some more stuff. Address changing is an art form if you have stuff auto billed to your credit card. If you change your credit card address you need to immediately go and change the auto billed account or else they will stop sending your or providing you whatever service you are paying for. I found that out when Amex changed my address on all my cards when I just wanted a corporate card changed. My Metro card was turned off. If you don’t live in NYC, a metro card is the credit card that you use to get onto the Subway. Mine also is linked to my Long Island Rail Road account, so having that get turned off was a bad thing.

I finally got a fathers day card for my dad. I also got one for my brother-inlaw. He is a dad now too. The day before a holiday like fathers day is a zoo at the local card store. I also had a bunch of errands to run, so I took out my dad’s new Honda Accord. For honda that thing has some power. I always like driving something with tons of horse power. I will stop talking about it now because I am getting teary eyed thinking about my last fast car. I miss my mustang.

I also did the super fun task of balancing my check book. Or rather download stuff into quicken and make sure I actually bought the stuff it says I did. Turns out I actually found a $500 plus error. Gotta call and find out what is up with that. I am now up to date on all my bills and statements and other misc. mail, I think! My desk is sort of clean now.

I also started the grueling process of calling everyone and telling them I am moving. I always forget a bank or magazine, and then spend months figuring my mistake. I am doing allot of change requests on line, but it still takes forever.