Tomorrow marks an entire week that my left eye has been watering/tearing/crying non-stop. It’s red, it’s raw, and the delicate skin in the eye area hurts from constant salt water irritation. I haven’t been able to go to the doctor this week (between occupational therapy and snow events) so I’m planning a trip on Friday night (extended office hours).

It’s incredibly annoying and a terrible, irritating nuisance.

Here’s some cool shit I found, thanks to the multitude of feeds I subscribe to*:

• Wheel of Food! - a mashup of local eateries, etc. Type in the ZIP of where you’d like to eat and spin the wheel of food; it’ll choose today’s eating establishment for you. For fun, I should try ZIP codes like 90210 and 20505 (belongs exclusively to the CIA or something - population of that ZIP is ZERO) and see where it recommends I eat.

• Hollowed out books - “Part of an ongoing project to combine hollowed out books with interesting contents similar to the fluxus movement or Joseph Cornell.” It could pain me, but I see it as another form of art - though it’s something I could never do, except to perhaps a Reader’s Digest Condensed Fiction book I picked up at a library sale for $0.25 or something. That I could hollow out. Sorry, Sidney Sheldon (RIP).

• A book that’s not even on Amazon yet - but I want eet! “This May, Klutz… will publish Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, the newest title in the Building Cards line. The books in the series… contain a deck of illustrated leaves that can be broken into cards of different shapes, which can then be used to build structures. The Hogwarts set is based on the castle seen in the Harry Potter movies and has 90 perforated leaves that break into more than 350 cards.”

• Via Lifehacker, (video tutorial showing) the superior way to wrap your headphones around your iPod: “keeps the headphones secured to your MP3 player, but also enables quick, tangle-free release. Plus, it keeps the cord from being wrapped too tightly…”

• And to keep things light, a piece on what would happen if our sun went out (from Mental_floss, the best magazine ever).

* Yes, I know. It should read “…thanks to the multitude of feeds to which I subscribe…” I got lazy.

Nothin’ tops off a crap-holiday like some campy film noir - “Mildred Pierce“, baby! If you haven’t seen it, DO.

Veda: With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls.
Mildred: Veda, I think I’m really seeing you for the first time in my life and you’re cheap and horrible.

Then later, the mother says to the daughter, “Get out - get out before I kill you.” Since the mother is played by Joan Crawford… well… it’s scary and campy and a joy to watch.

P.S. There was snow and ice. Not enough to keep me home, but the rest of my family stayed put. It was fine. Cold, windy and painful when the ice flew at my face and pelted me, but OK. Nothing big and fluffy like I’d like my winter to contain. Oh, well.