Crispycat Recordings: Visual challenge for the visually challenged...

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Visual challenge for the visually challenged...

Playlist
Various - Sony Walkman Mp3 on Shuffleplay
The Beatles - Yesterday (CD-R Best of)
Crazy Wisdom - We Live the Foreigner's Life
Beanfield - Charles
Various - Oh! Canada Compilations
Various - Destination Out Downloads
Various - Jazz Jukebox on Shuffleplay

To the optometrist this morning...

Two upshots...

My vision is perfectly normal for my advanced age...

It is kind of shot and specs are required - specs which are considerably better than the 1.5 reading glasses I've been squinting through...

Right eye worse than left hence the not so good recent scenarios...

Two possible looks investigated...

However, at between £600 and £700 for these (that's each!), I will probably be foregoing my eye-checking and eye-wateringly expensive optician for a rather more economical outlet for the visually impaired...

Elsewhere, two new donations to the Starlightnight JustGiving websight took me to within £25 of £600 (incl Gift Aid - as always)...

Issuing to all and sundry of the small cards to try and maintain momentum, will commence shortly...

Good sun, still, on the way home...

An hour taken to create an 11CD Box along with a 6CD set, ready for posting tomorrow to the South East of England and the North-West of Scotland respectively...

I am becoming more efficient in manufacture of music "product"...

And three mugs wait to be delivered this weekend too...

A mail, out of the blue, from Crazy Wisdom colleague and long time (and long time not seen or spoken with) collaborator, Malcolm Logan was a welcome surprise...

Setting up a Crazy Wisdom Website and looking for suitable input from Mr CBQ and Count Brodski...

Delighted to oblige, as I'm sure the Count will be too...

"Franklin and Bash" and an old episode of "Father Ted" entertained late on before I accessed and brought up to date my collection of must have but rarely listened to downloads from "Oh Canada" (new Canadian music) and "Destination Out" (far out freaky jazz)...

To bed late with jazz in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Contact from an old chum with a new project...

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