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One of the advantages of growing up is my eyes are getting better!!!

Here's an Rx taken in December 1972:

• OD: -8.75 -0.75 180

• OS: -9.00

Rx taken in April 1974:

• OD: -9.0 -0.75 180

• OS: -10.5

Rx taken ???:

• OD: -6.25

• OS: -8.75 +1.75 x168 o

• add 2.5

Rx taken January 2005:

• OD: -5.00 -0.50 90

• OS: -6.50 -1.75 75

• add +2.25

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The same folks who are Pro-Life when it comes to Abortion are Death Penalty advocates when it comes to bad people over 13.

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Humans, particularly Creationists, like to protest how much smarter we are than our animal cousins.  Look at all we have invented: fire, art, agriculture, the pyramids, the Bible, the printing press, Shakespeare, political freedom, ocean-sailing vessels, electricity, telephone, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Empire State building, automobiles, airplanes, radio, TV, nuclear energy, rocket ships, computers, nuclear energy!  Wow, and this is a short list!  Look at what we have done!  No other animal has ever done any of these things.

Well, puppy, neither you nor I were even closely responsible for doing those things either.  There aren't too many Leonardos and Michelangelos floating around on the planet.  How many great men and women have there been on the planet who have contributed novelty to the human race?  Maybe 10,000 out of 10 billion, 1 in one million.  As for me I consider myself a smart chimpanzee; as for you, well, ...   Just what have you done to show you are of the same species as these few thousands?  What is your entitlement to calling yourself homo sapiens (a smart human)?

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"Mad dogs and Englishmen / Go out in the mid-day sun."  And me.  Here in sunny NOLA, even winters are warm.  But it was summer they warned me about.  What they didn't warn me about was how cold they keep their indoors!  So, I walked, and I sweated, thru the hottest summer on record!  When I arrived where I was going, my pores really opened up, and then I froze.  But those who warned me about the hot summers avoided them with good ol' fashin' a/c.  But they didn't experience what they warned me about!  No sunburn, lost weight.

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Old dogs again.  "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."  Woof, woof!

• I have a very limited stipend that I live within.
• I have stopped buying and collecting books, audio CD's and DVD movies (I use the library a lot!).
• I keep my living quarters clean, neat and sometimes I even make my bed before sleeping in it!
• I make my own bread!
• I am beginning (don't rush me, Rome etc.) to cook for myself (beyond pasta and a store-bought sauce).
• I swim every day when the water's warm (and I jump in!).
• I always have walked to where I'm going, but Manhattan left few opportunities for a real walk, as everywhere I wanted to go was always within four blocks; here I walk an average in excess of 4 miles / day.
• For someone with no good reasons to be particularly happy (like a girl-friend, lotsa good friends, my own business or a great job, travel, eating out regularly, lotsa money, status), I am pretty happy.
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• I am just beginning.  Watch my dust! 

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There are pioneer Bibles in the library of the University of Texas bound in Indian skin...A neat idea! Something to go look at on our vacation, Bibles bound in Indian skin. Genocide may well be an American invention.
Guy Davenport (1927 - ), U.S. writer, translator, and educator.

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The Bible and Church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of woman's emancipation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902), U.S. campaigner for woman suffrage, Free Thought Magazine
 

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In Microsoft Encarta, most quotations are attributed, in this order, to: William Shakespeare, Holy Bible, Lord Byron, Samuel Johnson, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Alfred Lord Tennyson, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Horace, William Butler Yeats, William Blake.  An unscientific survey.

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