Monday Randomness

We have been hip deep in eyeglasses this weekend. After our Peru trip, we volunteered to sort through all the frames, lenses, reading glasses, sunglasses and what-not that make up the components needed for an eyeglass clinic. Everything needed to be sorted out (since the couple that was in charge in Peru said, "Just dump them in any old way - we'll sort them out when we get back) counted (1,487 pairs of reading glasses, 778 individual lenses) and inventoried (so they know what to restock). I don't know what we set out with - we checked the vision of 1,151 people, but didn't dispense that many glasses. Still, we ran out of some strengths of lenses and nearly every adult frame. Thank goodness Peruvians are small people; we dispensed a lot of adults with child frames the last day.

We've had 8 big duffel bags of glasses in the front bedroom for several weeks (and there may be one outstanding duffel - Malena is checking) and decided that this weekend with all the basketball playoffs was the ideal time to sort them.

Had to move the bird feeders. I mentioned how much feed the Finches go through. Thy eat Thistle seed - tiny little black seeds - but they crack the shell for an even tinier edible portion and spit the hulls on the ground. Soon there is a mound of Thistle hulls on the patio, and then the wind distributes it around and then we are tracking in Thistle hulls that get in everything. So, the feeders are now on the back of the house, in front of the bonus room window. Now if we want to watch the birds, we can do it from the treadmill - incentive for walking. You do have to turn out the lights so they can't see you as well. It's hard to be still to observe while walking.

Filed my taxes this weekend. I fretted over them for several weeks, worrying if had remembered everything and if I had it right this time. Mom finally said, "You are going to have to let it go at some point." So I did. Actually get something back this time. Unless I made another mistake.

Decided we could survive the downturn in the economy. If we only had the money that was spent on tattoos by all the basketball players we saw this weekend. Wow.

And speaking of basketball. UT men are in as a seventh seed - better than we expected. Women will probably get a similar seed. We're down to one game left this weekend; Stanford and USC women are playing tonight, then we are cut off until Thursday. Guess I'll have to go to the library and stock up fot the next several days.