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So far, both of these Vice Presidential candidates are vastly more impressive than either presidential candidate. It's nice listening to a candidate actually talk about specific policies for once while actually knowing how the laws work behind the policies.

We owe the colorful Americanism jerkwater to the invention of the steam engine—an advancement that significantly accelerated travel by rail but also had its drawbacks. One drawback was that the boilers of the early locomotives needed to be refilled with water frequently, and water tanks were few and far between. As a result, the small trains that ran on rural branch lines often had to stop to take on water from local supplies. Such trains were commonly called jerkwaters from the motion of jerking the water up in buckets from the supply to the engine. The derogatory use of jerkwater for things unimportant or trivial reflects attitudes about the small middle-of-nowhere towns connected by the lines on which these jerkwater trains typically ran.

I had them correct my vision in the left but had them leave the right (my dominant eye) uncorrected. Shouldn't need anything but cheaters for my phone and computer work.

Greatly improved, she has ditched her prescription driving glasses, her TV-watching glasses and just uses weak drugstore readers for close up work and computer. I hope your vision improves too. I'm thinking about the same but have some other med issues to attend to this year.

Rachel just had her second eye done this week.

Had cataract surgery on the other eye today. Won't know how good it went until tomorrow when I can take the protective shield off of my eye.