I’ve known about this for several weeks now, but I’ve been waiting until a more opportune time to make the announcement:<\/p>\n
We’re moving from Huntsville to Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
We’ve been here for 15 years, so this has been a very difficult decision for me to make. The boys have grown up here and our family has put down deep roots. But Duke made me an offer I couldn’t refuse.<\/p>\n
I’ve always known in my heart that my destiny was somehow tied to Duke University, so imagine how I felt when I heard the athletic department was searching for a team optometrist to provide cutting-edge eye care to their “student athletes.” I interviewed for the job a few months ago along with some of the top sports optometrists in the country, and somehow they chose me. I think it might have been the fact I know which is better, one or two and <\/em>bleed Blue Devil Blue that put me over the top. That letter of reference from Christian Laettner probably didn’t hurt any either.<\/p>\n I’m looking forward to working with Coaches K and Cutcliffe and the rest of the Duke staff in making sure that all the Blue Devils are 20\/20 and then some. I’ll be providing a valuable service and will be in the middle of the action, reinserting their contact lenses and treating the corneal abrasions that sometimes occur in the middle of a heated contest. I mean, who would argue with the fact that the entire men’s basketball team is in dire need of a refraction after bricking their last 15 shots against West Virginia?<\/p>\n It took us a while to work out the compensation package, and although it’s a 50% reduction in my present salary, I do get 2 season tickets to all men’s home basketball games plus a national championship ring when they finally get around to winning #4. I think food, housing and gasoline have been greatly overrated anyway.<\/p>\n Anyway, you guys are the first to know–I haven’t even told them at work yet. Heck, I haven’t even told the family. But I know they’ll be thrilled just like you are.<\/p>\n I just want you to know that as far as the blog goes, nothing will change. Same old deep thinking, straight talking Eyeguy, just like always.<\/p>\n Well, gotta go–the men’s lacrosse team has gone on another bender and is having trouble finding the back of the net. See you on SportsCenter.<\/p>\n Go Duke. GTHC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve known about this for several weeks now, but I’ve been waiting until a more opportune time to make the announcement: We’re moving from Huntsville to Durham, North Carolina. We’ve been here for 15 years, so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,36,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-duke-basketball","category-eyes","category-family","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}