I'm Bifocal!
So I knew this was coming. I knew it because it's something that happens to both gay and straight people, typically when they hit their 40s.
Oh, you might think the cause would be fatigue or too much experience, but no. It's simply a function of age.
Get your minds out of the gutter (no wait, don't). Presbyopia is the culprit, chil'ren. I realized it about three weeks ago, when I'd get headaches—and if you've seen the size of my head, you'd know that's somethin'.
So as a temporary fix, I decided to get some $9.99 reading glasses at Walgreens. I called up Marie and asked her how I'd figure out the ones that were right for me. I ended up with +150s with no real confidence that I did the right thing: I only got the +150s because all the +125s were ugly.
Then, being out of practice with glasses, I lost 'em. So on Christmas Eve, I'm at the Walgreens trying on other lens strengths. I settled on the +200s: in for a penny, in for a pound, right?
Well, today I went to see the Eye Goddess, also known as Kathleen Kennedy to do the right thing.
So I'm going to wear glasses again. At least when I read—so far, so good with using my Mac(s). So the glasses have progressive lenses. That means bifocals, essentially, with a smooth transition between the reading part and the regular part. There is no prescription, per se, for the regular part, save to correct for very mild astigmatism, and the reading-glasses part is only +125.
But....bifocals.
Sssssrrriussssssly.
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Guess that makes you the OLDer brother. :)
Posted by: Lee(Skittles) | December 27, 2005 11:42 AM
I'd worn glasses and/or contact lenses from age 9 to age 37, when I got the LASIK surgery. And for the last 4 years I've had amazingly clear vision...best I've ever had.
So I'm not at all upset about having to wear glasses...but, DOOOD, bifocals.
;-)
Posted by: GodOfBiscuits | December 28, 2005 03:43 AM
Always was old to me, Lee. Sucks to get old(so I heard)
Posted by: sam Barbose | December 28, 2005 04:04 AM
Yeah, Sam, it does. But not for the reason that most 20 year olds imagine.
Posted by: Lee(Skittles) | December 28, 2005 07:19 AM
ah, it ain't that bad.
Posted by: Mark | December 28, 2005 07:19 AM
Ha! Welcome to the club, papi!. I was as mortified when I found out I had to get frames myself. But the Kenneth Cole frames I'm wearing are getting a lot of compliments—more than I ever did. I'm getting a second pair just in case I sit on the first—by mistake, of course.
Posted by: Walt | December 28, 2005 07:21 AM
Next stop, glaucoma! Seriously, glasses are hottt.
Posted by: ted | December 28, 2005 11:33 AM
My gramma used to buy her readin' glasses at the Woolworth's. Now, I'll always think of you in the same way. -grin-
Go get bifocal lenses from the optometrist. I've been wearing them for awhile now and you can't even tell. Also, age isn't always the culprit here -- it's those fucking computer screens and the eye strain they can cause.
That, or it's too much masturbation. Yeah, that might be it.
Posted by: palochi | December 30, 2005 06:08 AM