International Me
May. 25th, 2011 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI spent most of the day in Russia but also spent some Korean time. Hours and hours of copying and pasting from one place to another - page after page. Russian and Korean are my two favorite alphabets to look at. If I'm going to spend my days doing web pages of content I cannot read, I appreciate it if at least the alphabet is pretty and/or the words on the page look like nice little designs.
Romance languages just make me feel stupid. Chinese and Japanese are scary because I cannot even tell where the words are. Tomorrow, I have more Korean and then a bunch of Spanish and some Swedish and Czech.
My job is really pretty interesting.
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I poked the lens out of a pair of reading glasses. I'm not sure what strength they are - they are old and the info has been wiped off the ear piece. But they aren't too strong and they were made in such a way as to make popping out of the lens possible so I gave it a shot.
And wow.
I'm wearing no contacts at all - all day. When I'm on the computer, I'm wearing what I call my pirate glasses. and they work great! They require me to lean back a bit to see the screen which is great because nose to the monitor wasn't working that well. They are ugly and the remaining lens is kind of scratched but they do tell me that when my new glasses get here they will be fine!
I went around the house and gathered up all the readers I have tucked here and there and put them with the stuff for Goodwill. Next I have to gather up all the contact lens stuff and put it in one place. I suspect, one day, I'll wear them again. And the ones I have are ones I bought at 1800 Contacts. They have superior customer service and will absolutely take them back in trade if the prescription changes.
I just wrote to ask if they would take them back for a refund. I doubt it but figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.
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The Mariner game was this morning and they won again! Freaky. They are now 1 game away from a 500 average bless their little loser hearts.
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When Anita was here a week ago yesterday, she left me a lot of seafood quiche mixings - way more than I have pie shells for. I used some of it in an omelet one weekend morning and it was about the best thing I had ever tasted. I'm hesitant to let it linger in the fridge many more days - I don't want it growing blue hair. So I think tonight's menu is going to be another delicious omelet.
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I have a little more work to do and then I think it's an evening of bear knitting and clearing out some of that TiVo backlog...
Romance languages just make me feel stupid. Chinese and Japanese are scary because I cannot even tell where the words are. Tomorrow, I have more Korean and then a bunch of Spanish and some Swedish and Czech.
My job is really pretty interesting.
---
I poked the lens out of a pair of reading glasses. I'm not sure what strength they are - they are old and the info has been wiped off the ear piece. But they aren't too strong and they were made in such a way as to make popping out of the lens possible so I gave it a shot.
And wow.
I'm wearing no contacts at all - all day. When I'm on the computer, I'm wearing what I call my pirate glasses. and they work great! They require me to lean back a bit to see the screen which is great because nose to the monitor wasn't working that well. They are ugly and the remaining lens is kind of scratched but they do tell me that when my new glasses get here they will be fine!
I went around the house and gathered up all the readers I have tucked here and there and put them with the stuff for Goodwill. Next I have to gather up all the contact lens stuff and put it in one place. I suspect, one day, I'll wear them again. And the ones I have are ones I bought at 1800 Contacts. They have superior customer service and will absolutely take them back in trade if the prescription changes.
I just wrote to ask if they would take them back for a refund. I doubt it but figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.
---
The Mariner game was this morning and they won again! Freaky. They are now 1 game away from a 500 average bless their little loser hearts.
---
When Anita was here a week ago yesterday, she left me a lot of seafood quiche mixings - way more than I have pie shells for. I used some of it in an omelet one weekend morning and it was about the best thing I had ever tasted. I'm hesitant to let it linger in the fridge many more days - I don't want it growing blue hair. So I think tonight's menu is going to be another delicious omelet.
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I have a little more work to do and then I think it's an evening of bear knitting and clearing out some of that TiVo backlog...
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Date: 2011-05-26 12:11 am (UTC)Me too. Russian looks to me like Greek with an attitude. And congrats, because you are one of the few Americans I know who knows Korean is an alphabet. Japanese is basically a stripped-down version of Chinese, and considering where you live, you might enjoy taking a Japanese or Chinese intro class. I used to see them advertised on the bulletin board at Uwajimaya. I took one of each through the Experimental College, just one class a week for 10 weeks. They both un-confused me about what the language looks like, and it is amusing which six words I still remember from each class. :-)
Thanks for the post about 1800 Contacts' awesome customer service. How a company treats someone who will probably never be a customer again is a true test of their integrity.
And yay for pirate glasses!
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