I can see clearly now, the brain is gone...

I've been putting off getting my eyes lazored for a couple of years now, and finally got around to scheduling it into this trip. There was a certain amount of irony when, after my initial consultation, they had to reschedule because the doctor that was in for the week I was scheduled couldn't do the Zyoptix technique that I needed. It was rescheduled to yesterday, which was fortunately still enough time for me to recover (barring complications) before I flew back home.

Surprisingly simple procedure - I knew that it only took about 15 minutes, but I was still surprised at how routine it was. I spent most of yesterday worrying that my vision wasn't going to clear up, but here I sit (at a computer, which I suppose I really shouldn't do) with 20/15 vision the day after. Nifty. I imagine once I'm allowed to walk around without the sunglasses on it's going to be really strange. I've been legally blind without my glasses since third grade. It might take some doing to be used to going without them.

They've found me out...

Is it a bad sign when the bartenders at the airport recognize you on sight?

It's been a rough couple of weeks. I don't know what it is, specifically, but I'm pretty much at my wits end right now. It isn't the stupidly long hours that I've been pulling - I'm pretty used to those by now. It isn't the pipe that burst above my office, collapsing the ceiling and flooding my office with a mixture of water and mouse feces - I wasn't in the office at the time, and no important paper got ruined. It isn't the idiocy that I face every day - I'll rant for a bit, have a drink, and then I'm fine.

Whatever it is, I've just about had it. I've really lost the drive for this job, and I'm not sure that I want to be down here much longer, and I'm also not sure if I want to be in this industry much longer. Financially, it's great. Regarding everything else, I'm not so sure.

Anyhow, at the end of the week I'm back to Calgary for two weeks to write my APEGGA exam and get my eyes lazored. While I'm lying around blind, I think I'm going to do some serious thinking about what I want out of life.

Happy National Celebration!

I would have posted a Happy Canada Day, but it's been a week of 12-16 hour days. Those do crop up from time to time. I can't really complain since despite the hours I was working, some of our field guys have been pulling longer hours. My only real complaint is this: Why are so many engineers complete assholes? We had an engineer out here this week (not from our company, thankfully) with only a year of experience, telling us to do stuff that will damage our equipment all so that he can save some money. When we told him we would not do that and why, he did an incredible impression of a 10-year old sulking about not getting a toy he wanted.

The upside of the week is that I've now got a three day weekend. It's a complete downpour right now, so I think that I will cook alligator tonight, and if the rain dies down later I'll celebrate the fourth of July by blowing stuff up.