Beware the eyes that paralyze!

No, not these eyes —

Nor this one on the Bob Brown cover —

— but our very own Plush Dudley.

Wednesday night he started squinting in the right eye. Not consistently, but as that’s his bad glaucoma eye, TYG got worried and took him in to the emergency vet while I stayed home with Trixie. TYG will do anything to take care of our dogs, and when she sees a problem, she’s usually right.

The vet found higher than usual pressure, nothing more. This left us both tired Thursday, and I took him in to our regular vet for a second look. By the time that was done, I was off my game and couldn’t accomplish anything beyond research reading the rest of the day. The good news is, his pressure was back to normal (it’s not the first time we’ve gotten a false positive) and he’s not squinting. So perhaps it was some dirt or grit that got into his eye and got washed out at some point.

The rest of the week, though, was productive. Monday I made the edits Stonecoast Literary Review requested on Bleeding Blue, then worked on Savage Adventures.

Tuesday I got a couple of films watched for Jekyll and Hyde, plus I rewrote several pieces and began rethinking the structure. As I learn more about the variety of films, my original chapter breakdown doesn’t look adequate but I’m not sure how to rearrange it yet.

Wednesday was the day for The Local Reporter — a three-hour council meeting to watch, then writing a story on the ever-controversial plans for a paved walkway along Bolin Creek, and one on next year’s budget.

As today is my day for blogging and such, that was it for work. I’d hoped to work on some fiction yesterday but I didn’t have the focus.

I also have two posts up at Atomic Junk Shop, one on comic books slow transition to the Bronze Age, one on a wildly ridiculous Superman story. The Curt Swan cover doesn’t capture how nutty it is.

Overall, a good week of work. And Plushie’s eye meds aren’t failing him yet, which is cool too.

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