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So much for contact lens

So, a month ago, I decided to go in for Contact Lenses to replace my spectacles... Actually I wanted to do this for a long time, but got the nod from the doc only in July.

Finally, after weeks of procrastination, I stepped in to an optician's store two days back.

For some wierd reason, that dude was hell bent on convincing me to go for ordinary soft contact lenses, when I was more interested in Torrik or semi-soft, because I have significant cylindrical power in my prescription. After arguing it out with him for nearly an hour, I agreed with his proposal of getting a trial pair of ordinary soft-lens for a week.

Within a day of wearing those lenses, I was convinced that my original conviction was right, and those lenses would not work for me, and I would have to get Torrik lenses.

I mentioned this problem to Joe, but he didn't really count this one as a disaster. He said that its pretty common for people to have some problems before they can find the right pair of lenses.

It would seem that being the disaster zone, I had to convert this into a disaster somehow...

So anyways, I decided that I would use this pair of lens to get comfortable with the procedure of wearing and removing the lens, so last night after going home, I decided to try them on a couple of times.

On my second attempt, I dropped the right eye-lens. Strangely, this time (yes it had happened a couple of times before as well) I couldn't find it at all!!

I spent around an hour looking high and low for the lens, but just couldn't find them. Its unbelieveable how that lens could have simply vanished from the face of the earth like that, but it just happened. Actually it might not be so unbelievable when you consider that it happened to me..

So, I now have only one lens. God knows what I should do with it. But anyways, I'm definitely not going for ordinary lenses next time. I guess I should practise little bit with the one lens that I have, before moving on to the more expensive Torrik lens...

Small things like the fact that I spilled 'Real Mango Nectar' on my desk don't even deserve a mention nowadays.

Archive from my TWiki

List of disasters : to give you a hang of what to expect on this blog!

• 24 Jul 2004
  Spilled milk on the breakfast table, also on mobile, at home.
  Got wet in the rain.
  
  
• 25 Jul 2004
  Spilled coffee on self in pantry.
  
  
• 27 Jul 2004
  Spilled Real mixed fruit juice on cell-phone. (My cell-phone is taking a real beating these days. )
  
  
  
• 3 Aug 2004
  Broke Chair. Simply by sitting on it.
  
  
• 22 Aug 2004
  Spilled Soft Drink on Bill in Kabab Corner, while trying to be good and move the table
  
  
• 25 Aug 2004 & 26 Aug 2004
  Who says Linux is a secure OS? I feel that someone is running a malicious script on my system, and periodically deletes exactly the stuff that I'm working on!!!! Webmin slimily upgrades itself to version 1.150-5 from 1.150-1 (Which by the way is THE latest release on www.webmin.com) and deletes all its own files. All this happens without even a warning to the user, and is discovered only when I go to the directory to look at the files. All the linux gurus(read Mrinal and Sridhar) can suggest, is upgrade to SuSE Linux 9.1 Could someone please enlighten me on how this is different from Windows?
  
  
• 30 Aug 2004
  Decided to take the plunge and upgrade my system to SuSE 9.1 overnight. After setting up my stuff in a way that I would better like, I decide to go in and resync my sandbox. For some reason, it failed, and I decided that I would be better off dropping the sandbox, and creating a new one. As soon as the sandbox is dropped and all items deleted, I realized that I made a big mistake. The sandbox I just dropped had approximately 15(fifteen) files checked out, and that basically consisted of all of my weeks work, which I hadn't checked in, so as not to break the build. So much for source control acting as backup for code. Thankfully I found a way to recover deleted files from reiserfs by using rebuild-tree, and salvaged all my work.
  
  
• 3 Sep 2004
  Had recommended Inchara for dinner last night, after meeting with Joe (Liemandt), inspite of resistance from Mrinal. Found that the others didn't like the place, and Bill actually got stomach trouble because of the food that he had there. Mid-day, he left for a visit to the hospital and didn't come back for the day. I mean, he wasn't even there the week-end.... All because of me... One disaster that I possibly couldn't forgive myself for. More importantly, I don't think that Bill is ever going to forgive me. Even more importantly, I don't think that my recommendation would ever be taken seriously again.
  
  
• 4 Sep 2004
  One disaster which was not my fault at all. I just arrived at office around afternoon. I find Anshu & Unni panicky over something. Apparently, all our files had been dropped out from Source Integrity. No idea how it happened or who did it, although some suspected Unni, because he had dropped the sandbox. Somehow, we were able to recover it from the latest copies of the sources present with Unni. I'm beginning to get disillusioned in source control.
  
  
• 4 Sep 2004
  Talking with Praveen & Sridhar, we realize that we will not be able to use CUPS under SaMBa? after all. It seems that the SaMBa? server has to hold Windows printer drivers for the client, and has to pass the print request directly to the printer, because it will be in raw format, rendering CUPS redundant. In less geek terms, this basically means that all my work over the past three weeks was meaningless, and that we should have waited for the printer API to proceed after all.
  
  
• 6 Sep 2004
  Dinner at Casa Picola. A glass broke. Again, it wasn't my fault, it was the waiters. My instinctive standard disclaimer humoured everyone, but the waiter, who sheepishly admitted to his fault. Everyone was laughing for quiet some time.
  
  
• 6 Sep 2004
  After the printers debacle, I moved on to VPN. After reading up on VPN for a while, I decided to set up a small VPN server of my own. So I got a fresh NT tarball from Sridhar, and installed PPTP on that. Guess what Windows greets me with!!! The Blue Screen of Death, what else!!
  
  
• 8 Sep 2004
  Bike keys fell off the bike, when coming to office from home. Wasted around half an hour looking for them, and finally had to give bike in service station to get entire lock set replaced. The fact that the keyring also contained the helmet-lock keys and my office drawer keys is only a minor detail....
  

Finally down to blogging

Famous last words:
* Finally getting down and starting a blog of my own.
* Had to revive my blog after a long time.
* This blog is there to tell the world about my thoughts.

A few real life instances like these, and watching the inconsistent life cycle of the blogging world, combined with the Ultimate Question (no not that one...), "What do I write in my blog???" had kept me away from blogging so long.

However I have maintained a TWiki page on my company LAN for around two months now, with a list of the regular disasters befalling me. This page has a small audience now, and most of them recommended that I move this stuff to more public areas like a website.

While I'm too damn lazy to actually do a website for myself, I did concede to the idea of blogging about my disasters. (only after a lot of philosophical discussions: Would I want to reveal my thoughts? Would anyone be interested? Do I have the time? Does it really matter? What is the purpose? Is there a spoon? How many roads must a man walk down in his lifetime? Where do we go for lunch?)

So, after the preamble, I need to get down to why this area is called Disaster Area.

First of all it is inspired by Disaster Area of H2G2 fame. Second, I'm something of a Disaster-prone zone myself. I mean, usually if there is a glass to be broken somewhere, my presence is enough.

Like they say in many diet-courses, if you write down what you eat everyday, then you eat less. In the same theme, I'm hoping that if I write down whatever disasters occur to me, there might be less of them.

I guess thats enough for an introduction without even mentioning a disaster!!! I'll put my page from the TWiki as soon as I can... meanwhile...


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