<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5583" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><Off Topic></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well I finally decided to do it.  After 20 years of wearing glasses I'm getting LASIK surgery on my eyes.  Yesterday I went in for the complete pre-op exam and today at 11:00 I have the actual procedure.  They tell me that the time in the chair is 10 minutes total but the actual physical work is only about one minute per eye.  Pretty amazing stuff.  It's all done with what they call a "cool laser".  They completely numb your eyes with some drops and you don't feel a thing.  About six hours of blurry vision, and by the next day you see better then you ever actually did with the glasses.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Well, I'll let you know how it all comes out.  In the meantime I'm trying to think of a ceremonial way to dispose of the glasses.  Maybe I'll drop a piano on them.  I've already repaired them multiple times with CA glue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT<BR>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>