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Wednesday, 27 March 2024 | Dereel | Images for 27 March 2024 |
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Blacklist removal: success
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Topic: technology, opinion | Link here |
Yesterday I received mail from Wendy Bartlett, whom I knew at Tandem Computers. Replied, or at least I tried to:
<wendy_bartlett@randomisp.net>: host ff-ip4-mx-vip2.prodigy.net[144.160.159.22]
said: 553 5.3.0 flpd594 DNSBL:RBL 521< 45.32.70.18 >_is_blocked.For
assistance forward this error to abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net (in reply to MAIL
FROM command)
Damn, will this never end? For the sake of completeness, sent a message to abuse_rbl@abuse-att.net to say that I was just an innocent bystander.
Surprise, surprise:
Thank you for contacting the AT&T Postmaster.
The mail-server IP address(es) associated with your request will be removed from the block list within 24-48 hours from the date of this letter. AT&T and its affiliates do NOT intentionally block legitimate mail in the course of our anti-spam initiatives and regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
And yes, now it works! I think this is the first time that I have been successful in such an appeal.
Eye progress
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Topic: health, opinion | Link here |
My eye continues to improve. The bubble is still there, but barely. Hopefully it will soon be completely gone, and the new floaters with it.
Today Yvonne went shopping and picked up some reading glasses for me. We had carefully measured the distance from my head to monitor and established that it was about 60 to 62 cm. That falls clearly between 67 cm (1.5 dioptres) and 57 cm (1.75 dioptres). I suggested getting one set of each power if we could return one.
That didn't happen: nobody had 1.75 dioptre glasses on offer. So she came back with a 1.5 dioptre pair. But that's not an issue: I couldn't focus to 67 cm with them, more like 40 cm. That corresponds to 2.5 dioptres! And no, it's not the reading glasses. They focus images from outside at exactly 67 cm.
So it seems that currently, at any rate, my right eye is short-sighted by about 1 dioptre. Is that intentional? Is that what David Fabinyi meant when he said that “the lens focus is set to slightly shorter than infinity”? 1 dioptre isn't “slightly shorter”, it's considerably short-sighted. Hopefully things will improve.
Thursday, 28 March 2024 | Dereel | Images for 28 March 2024 |
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Bursting the bubble
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Topic: health, opinion | Link here |
The bubble in my eye has been reducing in size, as advertised, but it was still there at 8:00 this morning. I had hoped that it would have been gone by yesterday at the latest. But then I went back to bed for an hour or so, and at 9:00 it was gone.
All OK now? Not really. The floaters are still there, probably as many as before, just longer strands now. And I still can't see clearly when reading the monitor (with the reading glasses) or watching TV (without glasses in the right eye). I can't make up my mind whether the focal length is increasing or not. I can no longer see my outstretched hand clearly, so it could be, but it seems still to be less than the 3.5 m or so distance to the TV, indicating 0.3 dioptres or more.
And then there's an unexpected additional issue. Walking the dogs today, with only non-prescription sunglasses, I had difficulty aligning the view from each eye. The image for the left eye was higher than for the right eye. I had noticed this on Saturday, but attributed it to the glasses. On the other hand, how could the operation cause this kind of issue? Off-centre lens?
Is this going to go away? If not, I have two choices: have the lens replaced (and hope that it'll be better next time) or wear glasses all the time, one of the things that I had hoped to avoid. But there's not much point in coming to any decisions now. I certainly wouldn't have anything done until after the other eye has been done, and even that looks less likely to happen on the appointed date 11 April: David Fabinyi won't be available before then, and his locum is unlikely to be able to help. Hopefully things will clear up before then. I don't want the present situation to last too long.
Received a card (credit card size) in the mail today, with no further comment. It seems that I have a TECNIS™ Eyehance with TECNIS Simplicity™ Delivery System DI800. What a lot of meainingless buzzwords! About the only thing of interest is that the lens has a power of +21.5D, which doesn't really say very much about where the focus is set.
I clean everything
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Petra Gietz helps us with the cleaning in the house. She takes her job seriously:
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