Thanks man! The eye is doing pretty well, but the whole "don't lift more than 10 pounds, bend over, or do anything that increases blood pressure or you will blow out your retina" is starting to get me a little stir crazy :D Fortunately that restriction is done this Tuesday, so I can go out and throw some logs around, split some things, maybe carry my anvil around while bending over and getting angry about people using "fraught" without an object... the usual.
I'm going to guess you're not an ophthalmologist. Psychiatrist here. I can assure you that if your most serious problem is carrying your anvil and bending over to get angry about people using "fraught" without an indirect object nor a preposition, you're better off mentally than most people I know.
Hah, no I am an economist by training. I was referring to the requirement to not lift stuff and all killing a lot of my usual silly stuff I find myself annoyed I can't do. I am pretty happy though that the eye is working though. I was fairly worried something might go wrong, and being down to one eye is disturbingly close to blind and having nothing to do.
Thank you sir! I have a couple coming up, as soon as I can write and read enough without getting a headache. One is particularly reference heavy so I am pretty slowed down. The blacksmithing bloopers is less so, but somehow "I tried to make this, and it didn't work, and I am not entirely sure why" is less inspiring :D
That... is actually kind of tempting. I wonder how it would pair with a plaid wool shirt and jeans. Maybe just go for a white linen work shirt with vest on top.
You have to understand, I have largely opted out of normal, day to day fashion, but when it comes to tools and armor I apply myself :D
Sorry to hear about the eye. As an extremely nearsighted person who occasionally had to play sports with one eye after losing a contact lens, I (to a very small degree) know how you must feel. Hope the vision situation fully resolves soon!
Thank you :) I wouldn't be surprised to learn that part of my aversion to team sports was having a hard time seeing and understanding what was happening away from where I was. Anything more than two or three arms' length from me probably is too hard to keep track of. Come to think of it, I always kind of liked volleyball, which would make sense as the distances are not that great. (That is the Robin Hanson theory of activity preference, that we like what we are naturally pretty good at, and tend to lose interest when we stop being good at it relative to our local competition. The fellow who wrote "The Sports Gene" makes a similar argument, if I recall.)
Mine was water polo--hence the contact lenses falling out unexpectedly and irretrievably. Similar dimensions to water polo, which is probably why I could still function with one eye--it was just extremely noticeable and threw off depth perception somewhat. And, yes, I stopped playing the sport when I looked into playing in college, and instead of the competition being suburban Boy Scouts and surf bums, the competition became 23-year-old 6-foot-8, 250-pound Croatians who could outswim you even though their warmup consisted of a beer and a cigarette. I would not have been good relative to that local competition.
Oh damn, I never considered that, but losing a lens in the water would be a nightmare during a game. I just never wore my glasses playing soccer, and of course in track it didn't matter. I tried wearing contacts fighting SCA, but after having one pop out inside my helmet (wound up sticking to my nose, so recovered) I just gave up on distance vision there too. Then my wife had her contacts rub a hole in the surface of her eye, and I just noped out of contacts. That was scary enough for me!
Now that you mention it, the shift between "fairly serious high school" and college sports competition is a pretty good metaphor for the shift between people's productivity and income. I suspect a lot of people underestimate the amount of difference in performance that results from "I do this casually" to "I am really serious about this", let alone when also tied to talent gaps. While we see it pretty clearly in sports competition we don't seem to expect it to apply to other realms like work performance, but the gap still seems to be there.
Yeah, the performance differences are even more stark when the giant fast shark bears with cannon arms can easily defeat you despite casually "not warming up or practicing" and you're over here putting in two-a-days. If the competition has talent and grit, you're toast. (This is more of a meme than reality. I'm pretty sure the Croatian national water polo team actually did drink and smoke before games before pounding lesser competition in the 80's, but my college experience in the early aughts was different. The guys were huge and fast, though, and some of them were, in fact, Croatian!)
But, yes, the gap between "random HS varsity starter" and top NCAA or pro competitor is a good example of how natural talent/affinity alone doesn't always lead to success. Every field has a Kobe Bryant who is guaranteed to have more physical ability than you, more mental aptitude than you, AND spend more time honing his craft than you. Heck, there are probably hundreds of basketball players RIGHT NOW who have Kobe's physical talent but don't have the drive and focus to even make it to the NBA, let alone dominate it.
Thank you sir! My brain is starting to come around to it pretty well after a week. Healing no doubt, and the eye drop per day requirement has dropped below a liter, so that helps too :D My eyes really hate those drops for some reason.
It’s been a while. Hope you are doing better.
Thanks man! The eye is doing pretty well, but the whole "don't lift more than 10 pounds, bend over, or do anything that increases blood pressure or you will blow out your retina" is starting to get me a little stir crazy :D Fortunately that restriction is done this Tuesday, so I can go out and throw some logs around, split some things, maybe carry my anvil around while bending over and getting angry about people using "fraught" without an object... the usual.
I'm going to guess you're not an ophthalmologist. Psychiatrist here. I can assure you that if your most serious problem is carrying your anvil and bending over to get angry about people using "fraught" without an indirect object nor a preposition, you're better off mentally than most people I know.
Hah, no I am an economist by training. I was referring to the requirement to not lift stuff and all killing a lot of my usual silly stuff I find myself annoyed I can't do. I am pretty happy though that the eye is working though. I was fairly worried something might go wrong, and being down to one eye is disturbingly close to blind and having nothing to do.
Hope you are able to get your vision issues resolved, I miss seeing your posts, blacksmithing and economics related!
Thank you sir! I have a couple coming up, as soon as I can write and read enough without getting a headache. One is particularly reference heavy so I am pretty slowed down. The blacksmithing bloopers is less so, but somehow "I tried to make this, and it didn't work, and I am not entirely sure why" is less inspiring :D
Good to see you back, Doc.
Thanks man! I am hoping to get back into the swing of things a bit more, as this coming promises to be... informative, I think.
A monocle would look great, ideally paired with a top hat for the full 'Victorian gentleman' vibe.
That... is actually kind of tempting. I wonder how it would pair with a plaid wool shirt and jeans. Maybe just go for a white linen work shirt with vest on top.
You have to understand, I have largely opted out of normal, day to day fashion, but when it comes to tools and armor I apply myself :D
Sorry to hear about the eye. As an extremely nearsighted person who occasionally had to play sports with one eye after losing a contact lens, I (to a very small degree) know how you must feel. Hope the vision situation fully resolves soon!
Thank you :) I wouldn't be surprised to learn that part of my aversion to team sports was having a hard time seeing and understanding what was happening away from where I was. Anything more than two or three arms' length from me probably is too hard to keep track of. Come to think of it, I always kind of liked volleyball, which would make sense as the distances are not that great. (That is the Robin Hanson theory of activity preference, that we like what we are naturally pretty good at, and tend to lose interest when we stop being good at it relative to our local competition. The fellow who wrote "The Sports Gene" makes a similar argument, if I recall.)
Mine was water polo--hence the contact lenses falling out unexpectedly and irretrievably. Similar dimensions to water polo, which is probably why I could still function with one eye--it was just extremely noticeable and threw off depth perception somewhat. And, yes, I stopped playing the sport when I looked into playing in college, and instead of the competition being suburban Boy Scouts and surf bums, the competition became 23-year-old 6-foot-8, 250-pound Croatians who could outswim you even though their warmup consisted of a beer and a cigarette. I would not have been good relative to that local competition.
Oh damn, I never considered that, but losing a lens in the water would be a nightmare during a game. I just never wore my glasses playing soccer, and of course in track it didn't matter. I tried wearing contacts fighting SCA, but after having one pop out inside my helmet (wound up sticking to my nose, so recovered) I just gave up on distance vision there too. Then my wife had her contacts rub a hole in the surface of her eye, and I just noped out of contacts. That was scary enough for me!
Now that you mention it, the shift between "fairly serious high school" and college sports competition is a pretty good metaphor for the shift between people's productivity and income. I suspect a lot of people underestimate the amount of difference in performance that results from "I do this casually" to "I am really serious about this", let alone when also tied to talent gaps. While we see it pretty clearly in sports competition we don't seem to expect it to apply to other realms like work performance, but the gap still seems to be there.
Yeah, the performance differences are even more stark when the giant fast shark bears with cannon arms can easily defeat you despite casually "not warming up or practicing" and you're over here putting in two-a-days. If the competition has talent and grit, you're toast. (This is more of a meme than reality. I'm pretty sure the Croatian national water polo team actually did drink and smoke before games before pounding lesser competition in the 80's, but my college experience in the early aughts was different. The guys were huge and fast, though, and some of them were, in fact, Croatian!)
But, yes, the gap between "random HS varsity starter" and top NCAA or pro competitor is a good example of how natural talent/affinity alone doesn't always lead to success. Every field has a Kobe Bryant who is guaranteed to have more physical ability than you, more mental aptitude than you, AND spend more time honing his craft than you. Heck, there are probably hundreds of basketball players RIGHT NOW who have Kobe's physical talent but don't have the drive and focus to even make it to the NBA, let alone dominate it.
Wishing you all the best with your eyes. I’m in a similar situation but enjoy my new bionic eye quite a bit. Also a happy new year to you and yours!
Thank you sir! My brain is starting to come around to it pretty well after a week. Healing no doubt, and the eye drop per day requirement has dropped below a liter, so that helps too :D My eyes really hate those drops for some reason.