Today I went to work and I stared at my screen and worked pretty hard all day.
I don’t work physically hard but sometimes the hard work is thinking through the logic on how to ship data around, like defining paths of trucks carrying loads across a town. You want adequate throughput and you also what efficiency- the quickest routes to move information from one input point through decision points to final destinations. That process itself could be improved if I wanted to become a Six Sigma black belt, but I will leave that to my sister. The thinking, though, can be work, draining your faculties as you develop the chart in your brains and then translate it into additions and subtractions and multiplications and concatenations and arrays. Plus, my eyes failed about 2PM, in part because my contacts are old, but also because my eyes are bad, and it is like trying to see through a just-emptied chocolate shake glass. The drink is gone, but the glass is too smeared to see through. Part of today’s hard work was just trying to see. I had the same problem yesterday, but fortunately I had had reader glasses at work then that helped me to see like I was looking through a dirty shake glass that had a magnifying lens behind it, so I could read things that were bigger and legible but they were still dirty. Unfortunately at the end of work yesterday I tossed the reader glasses that saved me to get work done over the afternoon yesterday onto the solid countertop and the thin plastic frames that were 22 cents of the dollar item’s value split under a lens which then fell out. I didn’t have those lenses to save me today so I kept putting saline solution in my eyes hoping the milky smear my eyes seemed to be looking through would disappear. The smear went away after I left work. I am sorry I broke those glasses, but it was a good work day.