Stupid or money grubbers

Either way, they wasted my time.

The past few weeks I have been suffering, and I mean suffering, with dry gritty itchy eyes, due to allergies. Three weeks in a row I asked the people at the pharmacy if there was any eyedrops I could use to relieve the dry itchiness when I was wearing my contacts. Was told no, but was given other products to alleviate the allergy symptoms. 

I cancelled our Tropicana gig yesterday because I could not put my contacts in, as my eyes were dry and irritated.

Went pillaging today, and decided to stop in at the pharmacy to see if there was another brand of eyedrops I could use, that might not sting or just work better. Guess what I found? "ReliefContact" for contact lens wearers. I swear I had steam coming out of my ears. The young woman told me they have always had that there, but the other two people working there, including the pharmacist, sold me the OTHER crap that was ineffectual.

I hope they pay her what she's worth, because she is worth at least twice both of their salaries.

A burnin' I did go

Made an MP3 dvd, so I am not slave to the external drive for music. I don't want an IPOD. I have a PPC and if I want to listen to music, I just load some tunes on an SD card. Do the same thing to watch videos too.

I am getting used to having my Acer as a mobile unit. Kind of like not being stuck in one room.

Have gig tomorrow. So, I am glad I got eye lubricant I can use with my contacts. Eyes feeling better by the hour, but I will still treat the pair of contacts as a 'throw away' pair. Also, going to pack my glasses just in case. I wouldn't dance at the Tropicana without contacts, would probably end up hitting someone as they tried to squeeze past in front of us (instead of going behind us as we do leave a clear path that way) or knock a latte out of the servers hand. But I could manage no contacts at a party performance.

Spent most of the morning in Rockingham, at the 'award' presentation of the real check we won at the Bunnings Community Day. Got to see the DVD of the event too, and Jo told us that the Melbourne office was muchly impressed by the entire event.

Pillaged.. enchiladas for dinner tonight. Yum.