I received the following message and link from our son today:
> Elderly couple: Watch the picture closely!
> An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic
> for a checkup and spotted a piano in the Atrium of the lobby
> seating area.
> They've been married for 62 years, the husband turns 90
> this year. Check out this impromptu performance... It's
> all attitude.
> Enjoy!! ====>
http://www.fark.com/cgi/vidplayer.pl?IDLink=4365716

PS-Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.
We had to go down to an eye specialist in NYC.
Our sons drove us down for each visit.
Driving in the city is almost as scary as the eye surgery! LOL
---Sea

"~~seadancer~~" <seadancer1934> wrote in message
news:q2f1
> PS-Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.

That is good news

~~seadancer~~ burst on the scene, and said:
> I received the following message and link from our son today:
> > Elderly couple: Watch the picture closely!
> > An elderly couple walked into the lobby of the Mayo Clinic
> > for a checkup and spotted a piano in the Atrium of the lobby
> > seating area.
> > They've been married for 62 years, the husband turns 90
> > this year. Check out this impromptu performance... It's
> > all attitude.
> > Enjoy!! ====>
> [..]

What a nice 'feel good' video.

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:48:52 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:

> Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.
> We had to go down to an eye specialist in NYC.
> Our sons drove us down for each visit.
> Driving in the city is almost as scary as the eye surgery!

That's great news, Seadancer.
Did Ed have to go to see the clever people at Columbia University in NYC?
I have a cousin of some sort who works there.

MCC wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:48:52 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>> Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.
>> We had to go down to an eye specialist in NYC.
>> Our sons drove us down for each visit.
>> Driving in the city is almost as scary as the eye surgery!
>
> That's great news, Seadancer.
> Did Ed have to go to see the clever people at Columbia University in NYC?
> I have a cousin of some sort who works there.

Yes, he did, Mike.
It was quite an experience.
The surgery took over 4 hours.
---Sea

>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:48:52 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>>> Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.

Hi Sea.
I hope the recovery is going well. My wife had caterac surgery on both eyes
and had lens
implants. After the recovery process the surgeon said she has 20/20/ vision
in both eyes.
But she has to have bi-focals for reading. They say that lasik surgery will
correct that.
It's all greek to me though.

Gil

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:25:05 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:

> MCC wrote:
>
> Yes, he did, Mike.
> It was quite an experience.
> The surgery took over 4 hours.
> ---Sea

That's a long time for an eye operation. I hope it went successfully.

Gil J wrote:
>>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>>>> Eddie survived his eye surgery and is now recuperating at home.
>
> Hi Sea.
> I hope the recovery is going well. My wife had caterac surgery on both eyes
> and had lens
> implants. After the recovery process the surgeon said she has 20/20/ vision
> in both eyes.
> But she has to have bi-focals for reading. They say that lasik surgery will
> correct that.
> It's all greek to me though.
> Gil

Thank you, Gil.
Of course, each person's situation is different.
When cataract surgery is done, the patient has a choice of different
kinds of lenses. Each kind gives different results.
Both Ed and I have had cataract surgery.
Ed now has retina problems, which can be more serious than cataracts.
The main goal is to prevent blindness, even if the resulting vision is
far from perfect.
In any case, it's amazing what the surgeons can do nowadays.
We all take our eyes for granted until something happens to them.
Then we realize how lucky we've been not to have had serious problems.
Our eyesight is so precious.
---Sea

MCC wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:25:05 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>> Yes, he did, Mike.
>> It was quite an experience.
>> The surgery took over 4 hours.
>> ---Sea
>
> That's a long time for an eye operation. I hope it went successfully.

Well, I'm finding out that success is relative when it comes to the eye
and a detached retina. The goal is to preserve as much sight as
possible... to preserve the ability to see light instead of having
complete blackness. The resulting vision might be very blurry, but at
least there is light and the shape of objects can be seen.

To repair a detached retina, they can put in an air bubble or oil to
hold things in place and to stop the retina from detaching. They can
also put a "buckle" around the eye. Ed has the buckle and the oil. He
has to hold his head, looking down, for about a week to allow the retina
to heal properly.

This isn't the first time Ed has had retina problems in that eye. The
first time was in 2008. I even created a web page about it at:
http://sites.google.com/site/seadanc...detachedretina
(The webpage has been corrupted a bit by changes made by google, but
it's legible.)
Now the problem has reappeared, but it's worse this time. That's why we
had to go to NYC.

Thank goodness Ed's other eye is still good, although they did detect
tears (rips) in the retina and had to zap them using laser surgery. So
far so good.

Take care of your eyes!
---Sea

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:20:21 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented

> This isn't the first time Ed has had retina problems in that eye. The
> first time was in 2008. I even created a web page about it at:
> [..]

Interesting Joy, I would not like by eye being zapped by a laser.

> (The webpage has been corrupted a bit by changes made by google, but
> it's legible.)

I couldn't see any obvious changes made by Google, perhaps it is something
on your machine that is changing your view? I read about this happening
recently, but I can't remember where.

Ali wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:20:21 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented
>> This isn't the first time Ed has had retina problems in that eye. The
>> first time was in 2008. I even created a web page about it at:
>> [..]
>
> Interesting Joy, I would not like by eye being zapped by a laser.
>
>> (The webpage has been corrupted a bit by changes made by google, but
>> it's legible.)
>
> I couldn't see any obvious changes made by Google, perhaps it is something
> on your machine that is changing your view? I read about this happening
> recently, but I can't remember where.

Ali, I created that webpage using the Google "Page Creator".
See the following web page:
https://www.google.com/accounts/Serv...tmpl=nosignups
As you can see, it says:
"If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to use Page
Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to Google
Sites later this year."
I blame the "transition" referred to above for the way the text is
jammed together at my webpage. By that I mean that there's not enough
space between the lines.
---Sea

On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:50:40 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented

> Ali wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:20:21 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented

>
> Ali, I created that webpage using the Google "Page Creator".
> See the following web page:
> [..]
> tp%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%2F&ltmpl=nosignups As you can see, it
> says: "If you are currently a Page Creator user, you can continue to
> use Page Creator and your pages will automatically be transitioned to
> Google Sites later this year."
> I blame the "transition" referred to above for the way the text is
> jammed together at my webpage. By that I mean that there's not enough
> space between the lines.

Possibly, but they don't look squashed to me.

Ali wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:50:40 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented
>
> Possibly, but they don't look squashed to me.
>
Hmmm, that's interesting, Ali.
I give up on trying to figure out the whys and wherefores of computers!
For a while, it was fun trying to create webpages, but once I understood
the mystery behind how it's done, I lost interest.
Here's the first webpage I created with Google Page Creator:
http://sites.google.com/site/seadancer1934/
There are links on that page to other pages I've worked on.
The text is appears squashed to me. It wasn't that way in the beginning.
---Sea

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:53:31 -0500, ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
> Ali wrote:
>> On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:50:40 GMT, ~~seadancer~~ commented
>>> Ali wrote:

>> Possibly, but they don't look squashed to me.
>>
> Hmmm, that's interesting, Ali.
> I give up on trying to figure out the whys and wherefores of computers!
> For a while, it was fun trying to create webpages, but once I understood
> the mystery behind how it's done, I lost interest. Here's the first
> webpage I created with Google Page Creator:
> [..] There are links on that page
> to other pages I've worked on. The text is appears squashed to me. It
> wasn't that way in the beginning. ---Sea

Looks fine to me, except that the lines with a red background at the top
of the page are *too* spread out, and the blue background is showing
between them.

Ali on netbook wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 ~~seadancer~~ wrote:
>
> Looks fine to me, except that the lines with a red background at the top
> of the page are *too* spread out, and the blue background is showing
> between them.

Thanks, Ali. All I know is that it looked much better to me when I first
created it.
I've been accessing the page via my Mozilla Firefox browser.
http://sites.google.com/site/seadancer1934/
Just now I tried accessing it via my Internet Explorer browser. It looks
better. Most of the text lines are OK. They aren't squashed, except for
the large print at the bottom which is squashed. The banner title at the
top is spread out too much on both pages, much the way you described it.
Oh, well, it was all part of an experiment on my part.

There's a link on that home page to my blogspot at:
http://nina-in-her-ivory-tower.blogspot.com/
That website is still intact, exactly as I created it a while ago.
That's another experiment I grew tired of playing with.
Now I'm busy moderating my book group at Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/...scussion_Group
I can't believe how many books some people can read within a short span
of time. They spur me on to keep reading.
---Sea