Good News. Bad News. Airborne Assault.

The good: the eye surgery has been a success. I can now read newsprint with my left eye, where before it would just have been a blur. My retina has been slowly uncrumpling.

In bad news: my knees are in worse shape than I thought. Knee replacement has been recommended. I’m reluctant to do this until I get over the side effects of my 2019 hip replacement: a tilted pelvis, scoliosis, 24/7 chronic leg pain, and a limp.

For the last two days we’ve been beset by hordes of tiny, very hungry mosquitoes. They’re barely larger than gnats, but they show up in battalions. I’ve never seen mosquitos this tiny. Did they just hatch, or is it a new invasive species?