Eyesight

I’ve been trying to upload an ebook to the iBooks website through Apple’s software iTunes Producer, and it’s just like jabbing knitting needles in my eyeballs!  The interface is terrible, hard to read and confusing, there’s a pop-up that keeps reappearing and you can’t get rid of it, and the results are often something very like gibberish.

Aw, fuck it.  I’ll upload through Smashwords, because it’s worth paying them a cut in order not to have to deal with this.

Apple, if you want to compete with Amazon in the ebooks business, you’ll have to do a lot better than this.

And speaking of jabbing needles in eyeballs, that’s exactly what’s going to happen to be later this morning.  I’m paying the penalty for living in a UV-laden New Mexico environment, and I’ve been developing a cataract— two cataracts, actually, though one isn’t as advanced as the other.  So I’m having the worst of them removed in a few hours, and then I’ll have this weird colander-looking thing pasted over my eye for a few days.

I’m sort of regretting the lasik I had last year, because all I had to do was wait a year or two, and I’d have got new lenses anyway.