Food,baseball,hot dogs and beer and Palm Desert, Ca.  Hello people …

 

1. Welcome back, Jay!  (to the blogging, not necessarily so to the UK) although I will say that your experience with the eye doctor is unusual.  At least for Florida.  Call a doctor here and in seconds you’ll have an appointment.  They WANT your money here.  And in a day or so, if not hours, you’ll be seen.

   Posted by Ranting Right Wing Howler       07/24/2010  at  11:34 AM  



2. Peiper you’re back!  Woo!  (I feel like G’Kar in B5 singing “Welcome Home, Mr. Garibaldi!")

   Glad to see you posting again.  I’d also caught wind that you and the wife had caught a nasty bug on the international flight back to the UK.  Hope that’s over and done with now too and you two are feeling better.

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       07/24/2010  at  02:05 PM  



3. Well, this caught me by surprise! And a hearty welcome home and welcome back! I wasn’t really expecting you to get well and get back into things for another week.

   This means I don’t need to do any more “where’s Waldo?” posts on Peiper!

   I’m pretty amazed at what you had to deal with at the CA eye doctors. The ones around here want your business, though the best docs are booked up a month ahead. Almost every mall has a Lens Crafters or similar, and most of them have walk-in exams. If the first eye testing machine you mentioned was a great huge box on a stand and you had to look through a hole to see a red light surrounded by a green circle, then that thing was an Optomap. It takes a high resolution digital laser photograph of more than half the inside surface of your eye. Great for checking for macular degeneration and other eye diseases. The air puff thing is a tonometer, which measures the pressure inside your eye. Glaucoma raises the pressure, so getting a high reading is a good indicator.

   Palm Springs looks like a nice getaway. Golf and shopping and art; sounds fun. And baseball games in Spanish!

   Posted by Drew458       07/24/2010  at  03:37 PM  



4. Never underestimate the powers of the Obi Peiper Drew. The force is strong in that one.
   Welcome Back old wise dude. Glad to see and hear you had a great time.
   

   Posted by Rich K       07/24/2010  at  04:55 PM  



5. BTW, Do we need to worry about you turning into a WMD?

   Posted by Rich K       07/24/2010  at  05:03 PM  



6. Welcome back Peiper.  Did I tell you - my daughter had a heart attack when she saw the card - she is not a bug/snake person at all. She did however participate in this year’s homage to the Great Groundhog in the Corn Patch in the Sky - with our first kill of the season (big surprise - no one’s come back, I guess drowning them outside has more than one perk). We now have a young doe visiting - she likes the apples.

   I flew into Palm Desert when my daughter was at 29 Palms - we ate dinner there - not sure where (I can barely remember what I had for dinner last night).

   Glad you enjoyed your trip - and are safely back at ‘home’.

   Posted by wardmama4       07/24/2010  at  07:09 PM  



7. I’d like to hear more about that “lack of choices” in US supermarkets compared to the UK. Around here we have these massive Wegmann’s markets, each store is over 100,000 square feet, pretty much 4 times the size of a regular grocery store. What choices are you missing out on?

   Posted by Drew458       07/24/2010  at  09:20 PM  



8. First ... Much thanks everyone who posted comments. Much appreciated.

   Dodgers ... Sitting here wearing my LA ball cap cos my bald head is cold and I like the hat.
   Dodgers in NY, Da Bums.  I remember well. Ah, kinda well. Hey, anyone remember Mel Allen? Did I spell it correctly? Or Bill Sterns?  Gee, so long ago.

   Drew, on choices.  Maybe you’re lucky on the east coast. ??  But the west in our area? Forget it.  Yeah, we have very large supermarkets in Palm Desert too.  And row after row of duplicates, but not the variety.

   And speaking of that. Even here I can’t find the Cheerios I like. But they do have a kiddie like Cheerios, I guess different flavors or something all in the same box. And I counted eight rows on one shelf, of just that one type of Cheerios but none of the original flavor.

   Re. eye exams.  I did expect the walk in exam like the ones in Riverside,Ca.  But for some reason didn’t find any in the desert. Wall-Mart for example has a large lens and eyeglass unit, but they then refer you to the doc who does the actual exam off premises. They tend to do things a bit different in PD.  What you and I call “attitude” my wife refers to as Desertude.

   Posted by peiper       07/25/2010  at  01:55 AM  



9. Vin Scully rules!!
   

   he surely does. we’re as much Scully fans I think, as we are Dodgers.

   , Scully once again found himself in the enviable position of calling what he would later say was the greatest individual performance he had seen—Don Larsen’s perfect game in the World Series, a broadcast which made national news again this year when the MLB Network launched on January 1 with the rare footage of that game.

   Thanks for that link OCM.  And hey ....  Some yrs ago A part of this was recorded and released and we used to listen to is again and again, and that was on reel to reel.  Later ,
   I copied to cassette, but that was long ago and I don’t know where it’s stored. This give me nudge to visit YT and see if I can find it there.
   Thanks again

   Posted by peiper       07/27/2010  at  06:07 AM  

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