Matt Meade

I’ve resumed transferring over old Myspace blog posts to my new page (here). I started a while back but now I’m really making progress, should be done soon.

Now if I can only remember how to log in to friendster… lol

After weeks of nothing it suddenly dumped a ton of snow on us in the middle of the night. Believe me, I know. I was cleaning out my garage so I could park in there, something I had been putting off.

Faye and I got to be the first people down the hill this year, with the help of my trusty sled.

Here are a couple neat pics of my eye-bruises from LASIK surgery.

This is perfectly normal, harmless, painless, and goes away in a couple of weeks.

It is simply blood that has rushed to the surface when they held my eyeball still by exposing it to a slight vacuum.

Jeepers, creepers, where'd ya get them peepers? At peepers-r-us of course!

I had my next-day check-up and wow, I see better now than I did with my glasses. 20/15 in fact, which is better than normal 20-20 vision.

Sweet…

This prompted me to dig into how vision is tested since I always assumed 20/20 was perfect and anything else (20/15 for example) would be bad. I also assumed that was left-eye (20)/right-eye(20) which also turned out to be wrong.

20/20 means that you see as well from 20 feet as what doctors consider “a normal person” sees from 20 feet.

20/15 means I see as well from 20 feet as a “normal person” sees from 15.

While 20/20 is average there is variation, and some rare people naturally have eyes as good as 20/8.

They estimate the vision of eagles at 20/2.

Everything went well in surgery, much better than I expected actually, it was a walk in the park.

Normally my eyes are very easily irritated, even just watching someone put in eyedrops makes them water.

But this was totally easy, no problem, and even though things are a bit hazy today I can notice the difference!

I randomly saw a LASIK ad about a free evaluation (some people’s eyes don’t qualify for it) and decided “Why not?”, it is one of my long-term goals after all.

Well I went in for my free exam and long story short, I am going in this Saturday (Halloween) to have it done!

I can’t wait!

Strategic Assistant, pretty snazzy.

It sounds like she can move into an accounting position from here also (her major).

I hosted one of our bi-weekly meetings to play Street Fighter IV. It was fun as hell. I grilled up a ton of food and we had ourselves a tournament.

Also this is the last time I will probably see Brendan for a while so I’m glad we had fun.

That sucks because he was one of my few friends I made locally since moving here. Can’t be replaced.

I just made it to G1! (Street Figther IV online ranking)

I am still disappointed in the ranking system though.

We officially have a local scene now. Our first meeting to play Street Fighter was today.

It was fun, good people. I’m pleased this is turning out so well since I started it.