Degredation
Blurry blurry vision, it's not as cool as it sounds believe it or not. Sure you see a big purple spot every where, but it makes it hard to read and to tell the difference between certain colors. Not really handy when your trying to put some new ends on a cat 5 cable. So, I experienced this last Monday and Tuesday. I finally decided to go to the doctor for the first time in six years after it didn't go away. The doctor sent me to a specialist, and after some test, they discovered that I have a condition called Central Serous Chorioretinopathy. It's an eye decease that effects mostly white males ages 25 to 45 and it causes retinal fluid to leak into the front part of the eye and causes warping of the pigmentation. This can lead to fun things like retinal detachment, or permanent visual defects. It's apparently caused by a reaction in the small single cell layer that separates the fluid and solid parts of the retina, brought on by a reaction to too much epinephrine( adrenaline for we simple folk), and is somewhat of a medical mystery.
The good news is that I should get most of my vision back and with some precautions, a the chance of a recurring episode can be greatly reduced. The bad news is that if it does happen again, the likely hood of permanent damage greatly increases. I go back to the doctor next Tuesday for a follow up to make sure the liquid has recessed and that everything is healing.
More troubles, except this time, in the server front. I have to assume that the server was some how cracked, because before this Monday, there was no trace of a problem, and I hadn't downloaded anything in months to the server. On Monday of this week however, I discovered that when trying to access the forums at decipherone.com, the forum software was generating an error message saying it was unable to connect to the database. I finally had some time to look into the problem after getting home from work late last night. Tenga.A virus anyone? If you want some I can send you any one of the exes on the server because they are all infected. Which after doing some research seems odd, because apparently there are patches for it in XP from service pack 2 up, and I have service pack 3 installed. I didn't get it, but now I get to spend this weekend reformatting the server and loading all the software back on it and setting up some new security precautions.
Well troubles are said to come in threes I heard one time, and I know of another problem that I won't discuss for reasons I leave a mystery, but the good news is life moves on. I really wish my work on the engine would though, but life keeps seeming to throw me some distractions that have to be taken care of first.
