Driving by braille

So, I am planning on getting this Lasik surgery on my eyes on Thursday, April 7 (but seriously, where else would they be able to do Lasik surgery), which means that I have to go through this veritable barrage of tests in order to see if I am a worthy candidate for the procedure and to get a current prescription which I will then have etched into my corneas and will get to live with for a few years. I had already found out that I am a worthy candidate - just a fairly mild case of myopia (nearsightedness, for people like me who had no clue what that meant) which should easily be corrected by Lasik surgery. So, yesterday I got to go get my eyes dilated (yesterday was the first time I had ever experienced this joy).

You have been warned, don’t blame me and say that I am sick and gross (that may be true, but it isn’t because I didn’t warn you). Before I had my eyes dilated, I got them numbed so that they could use this cool tool to gently poke my cornea to see what sort of “eye-pressure” I have. I suppose that it could be considered like an air-pressure gauge for a tire. I was glad my eyes were numb, I guess, even though I had this weird “I-can’t-feel-my-eyes” experience where my eyes felt weird because I couldn’t actually feel when I was blinking. You wouldn’t think this would anything you would even notice until you have it happen.

Then, I got the awesome drops which dilated my eyes until I looked like my eyes were entirely black - I was definitely hoping that they would go back to normal eventually. I got my eyes checked out (they were in good shape), I got my new prescription, and I got these AWESOME sunglasses. Don’t be at all surprised when you see many people walking down the streets looking exactly like this:

Those will be the days! It took a while before my eyes were not incredibly sensitive to light, but now things are back to normal (at least my vision is back to normal).

WOW! Talk about a CRAZY day. We had 11 National Merit students in today - we had been planning on 10, which would have been crazy anyway, but we actually ended up having another student who called this morning and said that he was coming by. So, that certainly made our days exciting. It was really a lot of fun getting a chance to meet a whole bunch of students and it was neat as well because several of the students were very interested in spiritual things. I was certainly glad that I had a chance to spend a bit of extra time with Jesus this morning before work, or things might have been even more fun. God once again is faithful!

On other fun news, I got to spend some time at Key Man’s Friday and Saturday of last week. God certainly taught me a lot at the main sessions, but as usual, the best time was hanging out with these guys who have been walking with God for far longer than I have been alive! I loved Sunday at church as the emphasis was on missions - it was great to hear quite a bit from Alex Thompson and it was so neat to hear what Ronnie had to say about missions. Then, Beyond Gates of Splendor in the evening wrapped up a great day of thinking globally.

In the evening I got to hang out with some Monday night Impact folks and then got to spend some time with Kelsey, sharing things that God had taught me at Key Man’s and hearing some of the things that she has been learning recently. That was a whole lot of fun to get some good quality time with her!

What is the deal? The past four days I think I have gotten about twenty emails telling me that many different people have been trying to log into my Washington Mutual account with the wrong logins. The spelling alone certainly makes it VERY official - take the following for instance: “If you choose to ignore our request, you leave us no choise but to temporaly suspend your account.” So, I have promptly followed the link, input my social security number, my bank account number, my check routing number, my billing address, my credit card number, my mother’s maiden name, and my blood type. Honestly! Let me know if you need all of that information from me - if you would just set up some very unprofessional website with a few boxes that I could input that information, I’d be happy to get that information to you. But, at least make it with a bank that I actually do business with! OK, enough of that, I do just think it is pretty hilarious!