Topic: THE EYES HAVE IT (Read 3319 times)

George · « **Reply #60 on:** June 20, 2019, 03:17:17 PM »

PAGE THREE GLASSES DANCE!!

Jeanne · « **Reply #61 on:** June 20, 2019, 03:42:44 PM »

Hello, everyone.

Jeanne · « **Reply #62 on:** June 20, 2019, 03:46:35 PM »

I have wonky eyes. I've always had wonky eyes. I started wearing glasses in the fifth grade and really hated it. My eyes got worse rapidly until I was very near-sighted and with an astigmatism. I grew accustomed to wearing glasses, but had many bad experiences having glasses made. I tried contacts three times, but I'm just terrible about inserting them, so that didn't work.

Jeanne · « **Reply #63 on:** June 20, 2019, 03:52:50 PM »

Not long after I moved to Virginia someone joined our team at work who happened to be a retired optometrist. Dave was also a really nice person. Our team traveled extensively and Dave and I were on many trips together. He'd often ask me to take off my glasses, then he'd gaze at them and say, "Ah, yes, they're..." Which was sooo much better than people who'd insist on trying them on, then exclaiming, "God, you're really blind!" (This is why I wear glasses, you nitwit.)

Jeanne · « **Reply #64 on:** June 20, 2019, 03:59:18 PM »

When it came time for new glasses I asked Dave to accompany me to the optician. There were so many options and I didn't know which to choose. Dave was a great help. After that I knew which to choose. I also found a really great optical shop nearby. For people like me, that makes a huge difference. When they heard (or read) "high minus with astigmatism" they UNDERSTOOD.

Jeanne · « **Reply #65 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:06:50 PM »

My eye surgery a few years ago largely corrected the nearsightedness and astigmatism, but created new problems. I wasn't all that happy with the ophthalmologist I saw last year and will be trying someone new this year. I found an optometrist I like, very thorough and happy to answer questions. Dave's advice was to see an optometrist for eye exams for glasses and ophthalmologists for eye diseases. I've taken his advice and it's worked out well. The few times ophthalmologists have given me refractions I've had trouble with the prescriptions.

Jeanne · « **Reply #66 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:22:06 PM »

Bruce, since we tend to get farsighted as we get older it could be that your weak eye benefitted from the move toward farsightedness and in that sense corrected. Your good eye became a bit farsighted.

In any case, how are your new glasses?

Jeanne · « **Reply #67 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:25:42 PM »

I have no news.

TTFN.

John G. · « **Reply #68 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:41:54 PM »

Lamb chops in the oven. Caprese salads assembled. Mushrooms sauteed. Polenta to be nuked.

bk · « **Reply #69 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:46:13 PM »

Picked up a couple of packages, had Popeye's for lunch, and now listening to music after a big dust-up with AT&T landline phone. They've been charging over 100 bucks again. Three months ago it had reached ninety and I called them then and told them I wasn't paying that much. They did whatever they did to get it down to what I had agreed to originally, close to fifty bucks. He said there'd been a rate increase - I said nice they let me know about it - not. He said it's in the bills. I said I don't get paper bills anymore and it's auto pay so I never actually look at the bills. Anyway, he got it down again and I said it has to stay there or I give up the landline. But the real shocker is taxes - do you know what the taxes are on a seventy dollar phone bill??? Over twenty bucks. How is that legal?

bk · « **Reply #70 on:** June 20, 2019, 04:47:11 PM »

Must go look at the DMV handbook again and take the sample tests again. I've been doing that all week and my brain is fried. They say the questions are easy and that only one answer can possibly be correct, but many of the answers are designed to be unclear, IMO.

FJL · « **Reply #71 on:** June 20, 2019, 05:08:07 PM »

Quote from: Jrand68 on June 20, 2019, 07:37:35 AM

And I have A LOT of stuff on the shelf at my house.

Didn't Michael Jackson say it best:

So tonight
Gotta leave the nine to five up on the shelf
And just enjoy yourself

FJL · « **Reply #72 on:** June 20, 2019, 05:08:57 PM »

Congrats to BK on that incredible milestone!

jan · « **Reply #73 on:** June 20, 2019, 05:17:48 PM »

TOD I've been wearing glasses since I was three. I would fall down a lot, turned out I am farsighted so I couldn't see things in my path. I wore them all the time till high school and college when vanity said to only wear them when absolutely necessary. When I went to work, I realized if I wanted to keep my job, I needed to see my work so the glasses came back full time. For many years my prescription never changed but the last couple of years they've gotten worse. I never tried contacts as I am paranoid about things in my eyes.

Ginny · « **Reply #74 on:** June 20, 2019, 06:40:29 PM »

Thursday evening greetings from Arlington, VA! We had a smooth drive today and only a little difficulty finding our hotel. We scoped out how to get to the convention center on the Metro, registered for ALA, and figured out where I need to be tomorrow morning. Picked up wonderful pita sandwiches and dessert and came back to our hotel for a quiet evening.

George · « **Reply #75 on:** June 20, 2019, 07:26:18 PM »

Time for me to head home.

Be back later.

John G. · « **Reply #76 on:** June 20, 2019, 07:59:12 PM »

Watched the sunset from the quasi-infinity pool tonight. How luxurious is that?

John G. · « **Reply #77 on:** June 20, 2019, 07:59:59 PM »

I shall be sad to leave here.

John G. · « **Reply #78 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:00:22 PM »

I even enjoyed working from here.

John G. · « **Reply #79 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:01:15 PM »

I’ve eaten healthier this week. Exercised. Slept more.

John G. · « **Reply #80 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:01:31 PM »

I should be on vacation more.

John G. · « **Reply #81 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:02:19 PM »

Carol and I are planning on Hilton Head, SC, for Christmas. Sounds like fun.

John G. · « **Reply #82 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:02:58 PM »

Right now I’m watching TV. Scary, isn’t it?

John G. · « **Reply #83 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:05:59 PM »

I’m watching the AFI tribute to Denzel Washington. I’d forgotten a few of these films. I remember really liking The Mighty Quinn.

bk · « **Reply #84 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:08:15 PM »

Page three? REALLY?

bk · « **Reply #85 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:08:51 PM »

Still listening to Panufnik. My head is about to explode with this DMV arcana. I think I have to stop and just hope for the best.

bk · « **Reply #86 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:09:07 PM »

I mean, the damn handbook is over 100 pages.

bk · « **Reply #87 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:09:20 PM »

Who is going to retain all that crap?

bk · « **Reply #88 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:10:49 PM »

My feeling is it is ageist and could be challenged that this written test is mandatory when you hit age seventy. I don't have any tickets for the past four years, no accidents, just a clean driving record, and that's all that should count. Because let me tell you, it doesn't make you a good driver if you can memorize everything in the DMV handbook.

bk · « **Reply #89 on:** June 20, 2019, 08:11:14 PM »

I'm told that some have figured out ways to cheat, but I'm a luddite and probably would get caught.

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