Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

Lightening up

Okay, I'm gonna lighten up today. No work, no whining. The sun is out. My taxes are in. (I can't understand why people wait 'til April 15 to do their taxes. It's not like the due date is some random day that's just revealed at the last minute. Of course, I also fail to understand why people try to go Christmas shopping just before the malls close on December 24.) I just paid off my car. And I don't have little bits of metal stuck in my eyes.

It's all the rage in the Netherlands:

The procedure involves inserting a 0.13 inch wide piece of specially developed jewelry -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye’s mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of $610 to $1,232. ...

The piece of jewelry is inserted in the conjunctiva -- the mucous membrane lining the inner surface of the eyelids and front of the eyeball -- in sterile conditions using an operating microscope in a procedure taking about 15 minutes.

And to think I am too chicken to get Lasik.

I dunno...sticking things in your eyes for fun? I wonder if that's related in any way to the hash bars...