CTIA  

Posted by Stephen Lowe

I'm off to CTIA in Orlando tomorrow, we went last year and had a great time. We made some good contacts and got to see the latest and greatest in the telecommunications industry. I hope this year is just as productive and fun. One of my best friends from high school lives in Orlando as well so I'm going to hang out with him one night, meetings permitting. If I see something really cool I'll try and get it posted here over the next couple of days, I'm already getting stuff via blog feeds on the show as it started today.

Miscellaneous updates  

Posted by Stephen Lowe

- We went to Las Vegas 2 weeks ago and had a blast. We had some help from family and friends watching Ethan while we were gone and we really appreciated it. It was a great time for Stephanie and I to take a break and spend some quality time together. Just us and Vegas! Check out some of the pictures in Steph's webalbum here.

- I'm selling my car. I don't want to talk about it. Go here for more info. Here is why I don't want to sell it.

- I got a new computer bag made by Booq. I've been through 5 different computer cases/bags in the last year trying to find the perfect bag and this is it. I think I'm going to post a review of it with a lot of pics and detail my "gear pack" for all of the geeks out there. Look for that later this week.

I thought I could see fine  

Posted by Stephen Lowe


When I was in 3rd grade, the teacher noticed that I was having problems seeing the black board and let my parents know. It was no shock to them, my father is extremely nearsighted and had worn glasses most of his life so off to the eye doctor we went. As time progressed, my nearsightedness got worse and worse. My eyesight was so bad I had to have my glasses on to read a book 2 feet in front of my face. I turned 25 in March of 2000 and as sort of a birthday present to myself, I got Lasik surgery done. I can't describe what a life changing event that was. I went from being almost legally blind to being able to read the license plate on the neighbors car across the street in literally a couple of hours.
Fast forward 7 years. I can still see fine but my right eye, which was always the worse one is a little fuzzy. Not bad, but if I close my left eye I can't read the license plate a few car lengths ahead. My left eye is dang near perfect but I've noticed at dusk it is really hard for me to focus when driving. I am a computer guy and spend 95% of my time glued to my monitors at work and feel like I'm straining to see clearly and have been having frequent headaches in the afternoons. I'm no stranger to eye problems and knew what the problem was. I made an appointment at Pearl and now I'm back in glasses. WOW, what a difference. Luckily the prescription is very light and I don't wear them all the time because I don't have to. The main problem was my astigmatism, I've always had it and it is what will affect your low light focusing and computer eye strain. My eyes feel relaxed now when I'm working on the computer and there is a difference driving as well.
I looked through about 30 different frames to find something I liked, man glasses have gotten expensive! One of my business partners told me to get contacts, he wears them daily. I just don't see me doing that, it seems like a lot of extra work and I don't need them all the time either. Anyway, after 7 years away from glasses I'm back, I've already been called Poindexter and 4 eyes, ahh it brings back memories.

Back to Blogging  

Posted by Stephen Lowe

I originally started this page for it's intended use of blogging but it never really caught on for me. It turned into a place to test and learn things to help my wife with the blog she keeps up to date with Ethan news. Well apparently, there are people that subscribe to my blog. As crazy as that seems to me, someone must be interested in what I think. Whoever these people are must be very patient as my history of new entries is not very impressive and contain no relevant content for anyone. Now I feel compelled to spew my thoughts onto the web for all of you (that one guy) subscribers. Since discovering I have readers I began thinking about actually starting to post more and what could I post if I did. I think I have some ideas. Stay tuned faithful readers, you might be surprised!

About Me

My name is Stephen Lowe. I'm a Christ follower, Husband, Father, Technologophile and Metalhead. This is where I dump my observations and opinions on whatever strikes me as noteworthy. Enjoy, discuss, disagree, I'm cool with whatever.

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