I often go for breakfast at the Pork Store on Haight, mainly because it is a great place but also I can , in my blindness, find my way there easily.
I go back to the eye doctor at the Zuckerberg Hospital. My vision is still blurred. The drops don’t seem to make much if any difference. The doctoresse thinks that the problem is cataracts. These need surgery. Only the big chief Ornithologist can approve surgery. I cannot see him until March 17! Even if he says, “Get those doggies rolling!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFGyhSifqzA there is at least a six month waiting list until I could go under the chain saw. Oh dear! Months and months of almost total inactivity due to inability to drive does not sound good.
Yesterday being a day when the vision was pretty good. I drove down to Palo Alto to have lunch with Jonathan and Renee. I made it OK but it is not safe.
Plan B – fly back to Okinawa, see specialist Ornithologist the next day and if he agrees that it is knife time, have the operation quickly. All free. Then I could see again and hit the adventure trail.
The Quiet Ripple Defines The Pond 
Magnificent posing there by James. Hope that Behrens have hired him to display their other products – bet he could give life to a coal hod.
Sad to hear about your cataract diagnosis. Absolute swine of a thing to happen. Avoided them so far but who knows when the old cataracts decide it’s time to make a visit.
A trip back to Okinawa for treatment sounds a good idea, especially if it can be done for free. Especially with the Orange Loon strutting about cancelling everything that doesn’t benefit his tech-bro supporters – it can’t be long before your Medicare will be in his sights, especially since you’re a furriner!
So how are you spending your days? Hopefully not in Haight scoffing endless fried food dealt out by cowgirls.
Hi Alan,
Back in Okinawa! Hope I can get my vision fixed. I am feeling old of late.