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Post by miket on May 1, 2019 16:54:56 GMT -5
Surely it wouldn't be for financial reasons... It use to be where you had to get your first RX of contacts from your ophthalmologist and then after all the adjustments and whatever then you could get a copy of your rx and take it wherever you want. When they changed that law a lot of them did not disclose that to their patients and you were stuck with higher costs. Some to this day still try to tell you that you cant get your rx until you go through the 1 year with them. but, reimbursement for eye exams really isn't profitable (which is why a ton of stand along eye places have popped up? so they have to get their money somehow right and ophthalmology and dental patient rights isn't something that most people look into compared to medical I didn't even know there was such a thing as patient rights when it came to eyes I guess. I never even thought about it. I just wear my contacts until I need more (breaking a lot of rules in between) or can't see very well with the ones that I'm wearing. I've always gone to the eye doctor for my lenses but I've considered ordering them online. I suppose I could if I wanted to...it would probably save me enough to buy a new vibe.
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Post by amygdule on May 1, 2019 18:02:43 GMT -5
Can you read this from two feet away? You ever do an eyewash with cayenne. It doesn't burn very much.
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Post by mohs on May 1, 2019 18:19:47 GMT -5
The above is Tiresias, formula for seeing into the future
Never seen this before
What a find
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Post by MsAli on May 3, 2019 13:46:01 GMT -5
I've been waiting for Blood Oath for so long and based off this thread I am.gonna try Hillerman for the 1st time. Now decisions to be made which one I start with
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Post by 1dave on May 3, 2019 14:30:48 GMT -5
You will enjoy ALL of Tony's stories. Also James D. Doss' stories.
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Post by MsAli on May 3, 2019 15:26:03 GMT -5
You will enjoy ALL of Tony's stories. Also James D. Doss' stories. Thank you! I'll look into him next I got my mom.to finally read William kent Krueger and she is hooked
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Post by 1dave on May 4, 2019 22:50:42 GMT -5
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Post by Rockindad on May 5, 2019 8:54:15 GMT -5
I'd add to that first one : "or building a library". We have a sitting area on our second floor that is destined to be a library some day. Problem is every time I start moving books, boxes and temporary shelves around I end up finding old favorites or books I have not gotten to yet and, well, you know..... Al
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Post by rockjunquie on May 5, 2019 9:17:17 GMT -5
@readers- I had 20/20 vision til I turned 40- almost to the day. Then I needed readers. I have some really strong ones that are hard to find. 2.75, I think. I take good care of them because it's hard to get decent readers in that strength. To work, I still need optivisors, too. I don't need glasses to watch tv, but I do because they are always on. I haven't seen an eye doctor in at least 20 years and I know I should go. One of these years, I will. We are covered for it.
@reading Oddly, I prefer old texts and history books. I used to devour books and read every bit of sci fi I could get my hands on. But, as I got older, my tastes changed because I am doing a lot of interesting (to me) research. However, every single time I pick up a book to read, I get 3 or 4 pages in and I fall asleep. That would be great for this insomniac, but I can't read with DH in the bed. He's a super light sleeper and ANY light will bother him. I have restless legs real bad among other issues that make me an occasional insomniac. Reading would be the perfect cure, but I'm not ready for separate bedrooms. I am lucky that my doc will still prescribe xanax. It's one of the drugs in the new war on drugs. I have been taking it on and off since it came out and NEVER has an issue with it. Now that it is on the hit list, though, I am stockpiling it. It has helped me so much. I have tried everything for RL (by the way, it is no longer a syndrome. It is now called a disease). The drugs for it are real heavy hitters, like for Parkinson's. No thank you. Just give me a milligram of xanax and I'll be knocked out.
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Post by 1dave on May 5, 2019 10:09:30 GMT -5
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Post by Win on May 10, 2019 9:08:43 GMT -5
Just finished this, really different, I liked it. I suggested it to a friend and he told me I was the second to tell him about it. Reading Anne Hilerman's 'Tale Teller', she is doing an excellent job carrying on here Dad's work.
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Post by 1dave on May 10, 2019 11:11:47 GMT -5
Just finished this, really different, I liked it. I suggested it to a friend and he told me I was the second to tell him about it. Reading Anne Hilerman's 'Tale Teller', she is doing an excellent job carrying on here Dad's work. I couldn't find it. What is the title, and who is the author?
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Post by MsAli on May 10, 2019 12:00:57 GMT -5
Just finished this, really different, I liked it. I suggested it to a friend and he told me I was the second to tell him about it. Reading Anne Hilerman's 'Tale Teller', she is doing an excellent job carrying on here Dad's work. I couldn't find it. What is the title, and who is the author? www.amazon.com/There-novel-Tommy-Orange/dp/0525520376
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Post by MsAli on May 10, 2019 12:01:58 GMT -5
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Post by MsAli on May 10, 2019 12:03:33 GMT -5
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Post by 1dave on May 10, 2019 13:50:49 GMT -5
TOMMY ORANGE is faculty at the Institute of American Indian Arts MFA program. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland, California, and currently lives in Angels Camp, California.
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Post by 1dave on May 12, 2019 6:54:42 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on May 12, 2019 14:13:08 GMT -5
Butterfly in the sky I can go twice as high
Horton hears a who OYYYYEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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Post by MsAli on Jun 7, 2019 16:05:35 GMT -5
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Post by gemfeller on Jun 7, 2019 17:15:19 GMT -5
1dave , the fact your A.E. van Vogt post has been moved to the Cave speaks volumes about the current state of American culture. I was hiding one of his stories about Null-A logic behind a boring assigned reading book in 9th Grade Study Hall long ago. I was discovered and got a stern lecture about reading "trash." I doubt the teacher had even heard of Korzybski or other semanticists like S.I. Hayakawa. Now van Vogt's work is apparently not only considered "trash" but verboten trash. Your posts about Golden Age S.F. bring back many good memories. I got hooked on S.F. one summer when I was at camp and met a real, live published S.F. author. How glorious it was to be swept off in E.E. "Doc" Smith's Lensmen space operas, Murray Leinster's wonderful stories like "First Contact" and other riveting tales told by people like Theodore Sturgeon, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and so many other of the "greats." I even wrote an S.F. story in high school that was published in National Scholastic Magazine, which was a Big Deal at the time (1951). It seems odd to me that many of the ideas that were taken for granted by S.F. fans of that period ('40s, '50's and early '60s) are just now being rehashed and discovered by the public at large via the Star Wars films, Star Trek etc. It seems like deja vu all over again, as they say. S.F. became less interesting to me after the Space Age arrived. I could no longer entertain fantasies about Martians or Venusian swamps filled with tentacled Bug-Eyed-Monsters or B.E.M.s as we used to call them. Reality had caught up to and surpassed the space opera era. I even gave up my decades-long subscription to Analog. But I learned a tremendous amount despite my study hall teacher's comments and I'm very glad I added S.F. to my "education."
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