Daily Moan

[Loy Toy]

I am in the wrong fecking trade.

We are presently redesigning our gardens adding driveways and car parking so the rather large buddha house assembly had to go.

The missus told me we had to get a special person in to perform a religious ceremony before it was moved.

So a couple of apparently certified guys turned up yesterday morning, set up a table with food and ribbons and other religious stuff, chanted for an hour and then left without the buddha house which my wife then moved and donated to some charity group.

1 hour chanting for 10.000 baht seems like a good job with a fantastic return to me.

[Happy As Larry]

Good advice from Nid, please get it checked at Rutnin. Could be Uveitis, Glaucoma or a side effect of another illness. "Country doctors" are not particularly good at specialist areas so go to the specialists - trip to BKK for a few days and make Mendip jealous

I can strongly recommend Rutnin as opposed to upcountry doctors for eye issues.
A few years ago I experienced an increased number of floaters in one. I went to the two local private hospitals. One gave me pills and told me to eat more vegetables the second gave me different ills and told me not to worry.
At this time I only a thin silver of light coming into my eye.
A trip down to Bangkok I was operated on the same day for a detached retina - an uncomfortable 2 hour procedure

Rutnin saved my sight.
I I had gone there straight away I would have saved many 10s of thousands of baht
I now go down every year for a check to see that all is still OK with the retina - cost between 1000-2000 baht. Money well spent im my opinion

[AntRobertson]

You could really dive in from the top board at your place.

Have been neither drunk nor brave enough to try that yet.

[Shutree]

Shutree, Is it possible that you simply don't blink much when you are using the computer and reading ? I find I don't move my body much, and have to get up very regularly.

Possible. I don't feel like I am using the screens or reading much more than I was at work. However there are fewer interruptions and it is possible I sit here longer than I should. I am making an effort to fire up the laptop, do what needs doing then shut it down again. The doc suggested no more than 20 minutes on followed by at least 20 minuts off.

My nap time.

[malmomike77]

^ shu do you sit with fans running a lot, i found the constant breeze in my eyes made them dry and sore.

[Latindancer]

I have had some eye trouble recently.

Hi Shutree, Have you thought about giving blue blocking glasses a go ?

"I Wore Blue Light Blocking Clip-On Lenses Everyday For A Week - Here's What Happened"

Admittedly this link is to an advertisement, but you could also research them yourself....

[Neverna]

Hi Shutree, Have you thought about giving blue blocking glasses a go ?

"I Wore Blue Light Blocking Clip-On Lenses Everyday For A Week - Here's What Happened"

Admittedly this link is to an advertisement, but you could also research them yourself....

There are alternatives to buying a pair of those glasses.

There may be an Eye Comfort Shield setting on your mobile phone. There is one on mine. Bedtime Mode is also available on some devices. For a desktop computer or laptop, f.lux works in a similar way.

[Shutree]

^ shu do you sit with fans running a lot, i found the constant breeze in my eyes made them dry and sore.

Yes, I do. I don't run the aircon so the dogs can wander in and out. Maybe I'll kick the annoying little animals outside. (Only joking. They are too used to coming and going as they please. They'll only scratch the door to shreds.) Anyway, interesting and I might try moving the fan behind me. Thanks.

[armstrong]

Hi Shutree, Have you thought about giving blue blocking glasses a go ?

"I Wore Blue Light Blocking Clip-On Lenses Everyday For A Week - Here's What Happened"

Admittedly this link is to an advertisement, but you could also research them yourself....

I've got a coating of that (I think) on my glasses

[david44]

Bedtime Mode is also available on some devices

You filthy minx

I hav nightmode on phones and laptops

In the Display settings in additon to brighness there is automatic timer for a scaleable night light mode

[Shutree]

There are alternatives to buying a pair of those glasses.

There may be an Eye Comfort Shield setting on your mobile phone. There is one on mine. Bedtime Mode is also available on some devices. For a desktop computer or laptop, f.lux works in a similar way.

Yes, there is a blue light filter on my Samsung which is switched on. I don't do bedtime mobile, although I usually read some old fashioned printed text. There are no cute puppies performing amusing tricks but I find that it suits me.

I shall investigate f.lux. Thanks

[Latindancer]

FWIW, cheap yellow-tinted sunnies do the same job. Yellow lenses block out blue light.

[malmomike77]

Anyway, interesting and I might try moving the fan behind me. Thanks.

Shu, the other thing that springs to mind which has affected me is do you use the motorbike without glasses on, i found that aside form the wind drying my eyes out the dust cause irritation too.

[Shutree]

Shu, the other thing that springs to mind which has affected me is do you use the motorbike without glasses on, i found that aside form the wind drying my eyes out the dust cause irritation too.

Fair suggestion, although I am not a biker and never a willing passenger. I fell off a Honda 50 about 50 years ago and have ever since stayed far away from the things. Still enjoy MotoGP.

[Latindancer]

I prescribe a week at the beach. Your problem may be inflammation from dust and I fixed mine that way after staying in Manila. Can't hurt to try, anyway.

[armstrong]

Restaurants all over BKK opened to sell alcohol legally today but by 6pm most had shut due to some SHA thing no one can get. All the Brit bars, even Wine Connection. It was easier to get a beer in BKK last week before the opening

[misskit]

My dog brought home a piece of fresh raccoon pelt and placed it at the back door this morning. Countdown for him bringing home some big stink when the critter breaks down and he gets into it.

[havnfun]

Posts like that ^ are when you wish there was a "like" button, instead of having to make a comment

[Sleeper]

Posts like that ^ are when you wish there was a "like" button, instead of having to make a comment

And a WTF button too.

[Edmond]

Restaurants all over BKK opened to sell alcohol legally today but by 6pm most had shut due to some SHA thing no one can get. All the Brit bars, even Wine Connection.

So it's fully legal for restaurants to serve alcohol now!


But the restaurants can't open.

There's a comedy sketch in there somewhere.

[Saint Willy]

Depends how desperate one is. Desperate for a drop. Borderline or full blown alcoholic…

[armstrong]

Depends how update one is. Desperate for a drop. Borderline or full blown alcoholic…

Oh I'm very update. Very update indeed

[VocalNeal]

Getting old sucks.

I have had some eye trouble recently. Bloodshot eyeballs, red enough to scare the children.

Two eye doctors can find no significant issues, seems it is down to 'dry eyes' and 'eye strain' attributed to reading and writing, books or screens or both. I am not doing a lot more reding, the doc says that it is simply aging. We all know there are parts of us that don't perform quite as well as they used to, so I am instructed to read less.

This is disappointing. I was hoping it would be an illness that modern medicine could fix. It isn't, it is just getting older, there's no fix.

On the plus side, there will be fewer short stories from the ricelands appearing on TD.

Now, WTF am I going to do all day? (Rhetorical question, I'll not be logging on to read all the witty answers.)

Optrex Actimist from Boots or Lazada. You spray it onto your eyes, not into your eyes.

[Mendip]

When I get towards the end of a long work trip I seem to spend more and more time online shopping, out of boredom mainly to help pass the long night shifts.

A few nights ago I decided to get our dogs mats to sleep on during the winter... six dogs so six mats, each a different colour.



They arrived yesterday and Maya got the pink one, I guess because she's a bit of a girly girl.

Yep... after just one night...

[Reg Dingle]

^ Winter...Thailand???

Is probably what she was thinking too

Here's what 650 quid buys you from a Welsh puppy farm nowadays...so the vet reckoned

I bought him for my daughter as a birthday present off some shifty guy off the Internet, whom I went and met and bought it out of the boot of his car, as you do.
I called him when I got home, was gonna ask him what food he had given me but he'd turned his phone off Was worried he may have been stolen.

The mutt got a clean bill of health at the vets anyway and his microchip was fine, had his second load of jabs this week and he's bright as a button, sits and gives his paw already and is superb on the puppy pads.



Nearly called him Mendy, always stroking his 3 card trick
Try and guess what 2 breeds he is.