Forecast: 5-15
Attained: 6-13

The emptying/sorting of boxes continues. I'm compiling a big list of stuff to be scanned, too, and refining the storage system for the 8 boxes of paperwork. It's coming along...

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This is the text of a Snellen Chart to test eyesight, taken from Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialities, 2007. It's quite lyrical, in a nonsensical sort of way.
Phrases are in order but I've arranged them in a prosey sort of fashion for amusment.

He moved forward a few fine chattering gems. He knew exactly who would sneeze calmly through an open door. Had there been another year of peace the battalion would have made a floating system of perpetual drainage.
A silent fall of immense snow came near oily remains of the purple-blue supper on the table. We drove on in our old sunless walnut. Presently classical eggs ticked in the new afternoon shadows.
We were instructed by my cousin Jasper not to exercise by country house visiting unless accompanied by thirteen geese or gangsters. The modern American did not prevail over the pair of redundant bronze puppies. The worn-out principle is a bad omen which I am never glad to ransom on purpose.

The phrases deliberately make no sense so someone having their eyesight tested can't guess what the sentence will say thereby giving a false positive. Fascinating things...