Confirmation that autumn has started

Seeing lots of leaves being blown out of a tree by the wind definitely says that we're moving into autumn.

OK, that's a signal

Earlier this morning I had been sitting here at my computer reading something on a web site, when all of sudden the left side of my vision went blurry. So, I removed my glasses, and lo and behold, the left lens had fallen out. And this had happened because on the semi-rimless frames I have, I now see there is a thin strip of plastic that runs across the bottom of each lens that attaches at two points on the frame in order to hold the lens in place, and the strip of plastic for the left lens had separated from one of it's attachment points.

I'm relieved this happened at home, needless to say! I don't want to think about what may have occurred if this had happened while I was driving my car on a freeway, for instance.

I have been starting to think about seeing the optometrist I've gone to before for an examination, so now I definitely will do so. I decided to not try to mess around with attempting to repair the glasses myself, since the lenses are only a very minor change in the prescription from my previous lenses; I dug out the glasses with those lenses and am now wearing them. And I'll call the optometrist's office first thing Monday morning for an appointment.

The fix is in

And now now, an admission: I have long resigned myself to generally not being very mechanically competent.

Which I imagine is one reason I delayed for way too long doing anything about the flapper in my toilet's tank, which became leaky quite a while ago.

The continuous dripping noise that leaky flapper created finally drove me to researching what to do last Saturday. I was strongly hoping this would lead me to something I could handle myself and not have to resort to calling for a plumber. A search on toilet "leaking noise" led me to a plumbing advice column that recommended using a device called the "Flush Fixer Kit".

I made up my mind right then to obtain one of those this morning, as I'm taking a vacation day anyway, so it would be real good time to work on fixing the problem. I took great care to follow the directions, and was very pleased to find it immediately stopped the leaking.

A unique sight

This morning while driving to work I had a first-time-for-me sighting. I passed a UPS tractor-trailer where the trailer was a flat-bed that held four large cargo containers of the sort that slide into planes for transport. I was especially surprised to see at least one portion of each container was transparent and I could see boxes that were stacked in them as I drove past.

It honestly never occurred to me before that such containers would be used anywhere but airports, but after doing a little thinking about it, I realized it must be most efficient to move these containers from the plane straight on to a flat-bed trailer when the distribution center that will transport all of the boxes in the containers to their final destination is not near an airport that UPS services.

As I saw this on northbound Interstate 15, I'd imagine the containers were most likely on the way to UPS distribution centers in Escondido and maybe other north San Diego County cities.

Amazon.com and boxes

As a happy Amazon.com customer, I was very bemused by this.