MaW’s Blog

Well, the optician gave me the all-clear on my corneal irritation today. It’s gone. Totally. Turns out it was the solution I was having a bad reaction to after all, and she said it’s quite common for it to happen exactly how it happened to me. I just wish it hadn’t taken them eighteen months to decide to try a different kind of solution and see if it worked, because it did in less than two and a half weeks. Apparently there’s no trace of it at all.

Buoyed by this news, I came home and rang the local All Clear Eye Laser Clinic, as I’d already decided to go with them. A few minutes later and I had an appointment booked for a consultation, on Friday the 17th of September, so fingers crossed. Got to stop wearing my contact lenses for a week beforehand, but I think I’ll wear them only sparingly up to that cutoff point to give myself the best chance… will need them this weekend for going up to Nottingham, as driving’s much easier with them in especially on long-distance, but other than that I think I can manage fine at work without them.

Which reminds me, need to book that day off work, or the afternoon at least.

In other news, my writing’s going well. Part Six of Unfinished History is nearly ready to be sent off to Shazz — I’ll check it over one last time tomorrow before I send it off, and Part Seven’s already starting to write itself inside my head, so all is looking up. With any luck I can get it finished before NaNoWriMo starts.

Richard’s back from Japan, nice to see him again this evening (and Anna too, who I’ve not seen for a couple of years now). He’s off to Uni soon, but at least he should have better Internet access there and we can work on our planned rewrite of Shadows of the Lost - which is in some ways a sequel to Unfinished History, set five thousand years later. Except that the universe in which Unfinished History takes place was made for Shadows of the Lost. I blogged about that before, so I’m not going to say any more about it now. In fact, I’m going to stop and go to bed.

Thames Valley Police have moved to the national eyesight standards. Only way I can get in now is through improvements to laser eye surgery.

Looks like one of my options just disappeared - maybe I should flip a coin?

Well, I’m back, while I was away I had the great good fortune to be able to spend a shift with Northamptonshire Police. Friday night, so things were kind of busy, but we got a very good mix of jobs to go to, couldn’t have asked for a better shift to see what things are like really! Everything from following up calls about people acting suspiciously to looking for a missing section 3 patient to scraps outside bars and nightclubs.

Although almost every officer I was introduced to as being interested in joining the force said the same thing.

“Don’t”

Since they evaded questions relating to why they still do it despite that attitude, I suspect I should take that with a pinch of salt and make up my own mind. Best way, yes?

It is with the greatest sadness that I heard of the death of PC Walker of Nottinghamshire Police last night. The driver of the taxi which caused his injuries has been charged with murder, but it doesn’t offer much comfort given the current state of the criminal justice system.

But I’m not going to spend all morning ranting about that. Nothing’s going to bring back the dead. My deepest condolences to PC Walker’s family, friends and colleagues. Words are far too empty for this.