Scheduled Downtime

Posted by Stropp on May 29, 2008

I’ve had some scheduled downtime for personal maintenance over the last few days.

As I mentioned last week, I had an appointment this week to undergo some Lasik eye surgery. That happened late on Monday afternoon. (BTW, I managed to get to level 18 in Age of Conan before I had to head off to the appointment!) The last few days have been a mixture of resting my eyes, and playing a little bit of AoC.

I’ve worn glasses since I’ve been four years old, and pretty much hated it for most of the time, with the last ten years or so been somewhat ambivalent about it. I’ve either never had the spare cash, or the courage at the same time. This time both coincided so I booked the appointment and here I am… spectacle free.

I’m still a little blurry, and my eyes get a bit more tired if I spend too long at the computer screen. But… the procedure was a success. I’m reading things at a distance unaided… and loving it.

The procedure itself is pretty simple. The doctor dilated and anesthetized my eyes with eye drops, and gave me a preop valium. I laid on a table with the laser gizmo, and the surgeon cut a flap of the surface of my eye. The laser then did its thing, the flap was replaced, and my eye covered with a clear shield. Rinse and repeat for the other eye.

The worst thing was staring into a bank of very bright lights for the procedure. There was a red light I had to stare at, that was surrounded by a number of very bright white lights. With my eyelids held open and eyes dilated, that was very uncomfortable especially since I’m sensitive to glare anyway. But is doesn’t last all that long. And the results are worth it.

In the meantime, as I mentioned I’ve been playing Age of Conan.

I’ve got my main character, a Dark Templar named Stropp (what else) up to level 21, and am doing quests in the main starter area for my race (Aquilonian.)

I want to get a bit further before I report on the game, but I’ll let you know now that it’s a good game. Like everything, there are good and bad things in the game. I’ll tell you about those later. However, at this stage I’m not sure if I’ll continue past the first month. I reckon I could go either way on that issue at the moment.

More later.

Popularity: 8%