The photos on the current version of the diamond site that I am working on are horrible. Many of them are blurry and none of them show any color. There is no rainbow of colors in the sparkle. It's just a bunch of overexposed white dots on a blurry grey gem. There are significant problems that make the photos look very amateurish, but they were taken by someone who is supposedly a professional photographer. The worst part is that the photographer is the wife of the owner of the company. This has caused his judgment to be distorted.

The project manager and I have been conspiring to get a better photographer. I had suggested someone I know who worked with me on a different site. This photographer has raised his rates since the last project and the manager doesn't want to pay that much. I could theoretically take the photos. The current photos are so bad that it's very easy to take better ones without any training, and I have prior experience with doing the photography for a different diamond site. However, I can't do the photography because the manager is fixated on the belief that only a professional photographer can do this.

I am getting very close to finishing the diamond website, but I am experiencing tremendous difficulty in finishing it, because I can't stay focused. I think the problem is a diminishing sense of urgency. Now I know that the amount of work left is manageable, so there is less need to rush. This is not good.

I had a dream about being very ill. My mother decided to treat me with acupuncture, but she did not use ordinary acupuncture needles. She used a special type of power drill with small diameter drill bits. The twisting action of the drill grabbed bits of flesh. It was painful and caused some depressions in my skin to become visible. The drill also had the ability to inject an herbal concoction into the holes that were made.

I just ordered webhosting service for the diamond website that I have been working on. On the registration page, they ask for all the normal things like name, address, phone number, etc. The only unusual item is a field for "CFP/CNPJ". I have no idea what that means and I left it blank. My brief Google search suggests that CNPJ might mean "Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica", which is used by Brazilian companies as a type of identification number, but that does not seem in any way related to CFP.

I think my train ran over someone. Unlike ordinary emergency brake activation, this one involved police and the train was still stuck in the station an hour later. I'm scanning the news now.

I heard my neighbor say that it might get a bit noisy because he is going to bring in the car. I was wondering why he needed to say this, because his children playing in the pool were already so noisy that I couldn't hear my voicemail properly. Now I know the reason. I haven't seen his new car yet, but I'm guessing it's some kind of classic. It is noisier than a Harley Davidson motorcycle and is releasing fumes that smell like neither deisel nor regular car exhaust.

I have difficulty in closing my eyes completely. I can get them closed, but it requires effort. This is fine when I'm in the shower and trying to avoid getting shampoo in my eyes. This is a problem when I sleep. Keeping my eyes partially open throughout the night causes a lot of tears to develop. Halfway through my sleep, I run out of tears and the accretion begins. I get substantial quantities of hard, sharp crystals. I have actually cut my hands on them a few times while rubbing my eyes in the morning.

I wash out most of the eye gunk while washing my face in the morning, but there is always some residue of slime that is difficult to get out that way. For the past decade, I have been using an eye wash every day after the face wash. This has worked well until a few months ago. The composition of my eye slime seems to have changed. It no longer dissolves in any eye wash that had previously worked for me. I have residue left on my eye more than half the time now. It's irritating and sometime distorts my vision. The only thing that works for me now is wiping my eyeball with facial tissue, which is not comfortable.