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The Great Eyeball Saga, Part 2
🕑 Added 2025-03-07 03:40:37 +0000 UTCGood news. I found a place that can get me in for an eye exam first thing tomorrow morning. Hurray! Less great news for me is that my vision insurance, which is not part of my very expensive health insurance (self-employment sucks sometimes), had lapsed. I'm not sure when. I don't remember getting frantic emails from them the way you expect to when most subscriptions are about to lapse. Either way, it did lapse. So, I got to shell out to get it back and make it retroactively valid to the first of this month. I did that so I can I can use it tomorrow. Good times.
What's still up in the air is how fast I can actually get new glasses. I'll probably pay for a pair of almost inevitably ugly glasses right there at the eye doctor place so that, hopefully, I can get them early next week. I'd really like to get them the same day, but that's probably too much to hope for. But having a pair with an updated prescription, no matter how ugly they are, will be a vast improvement over continuing to use my outdated glasses. If nothing else, they should help reduce the number of my migraines which is worth suffering almost any kind of temporary ugly glasses embarrassment.
Then, I'll probably order a pair that I know I'll actually like from the online place where I got the pair I have now. Ideally, I'll get the exact same frames I have now because I'm an "if it ain't broke" kind of guy. The downside is that it will likely take two or three weeks for them to arrive even if i pay for expedited shipping. That's the tradeoff with online shopping for things like glasses. You can get a great deal, but you pay for that monetary savings with time spent waiting. Que sera, sera.
Incidentally, if any of you were wondering if my private life involved jet-setting off to Monte Carlo, St. Barts, or the Amalfi Coast to have semi-clandestine dinners with movie starlets and heiresses...now, you know the truth. This is what my private life looks like most of the time. The same kind of boring details, forgotten tasks, and appointments that everyone else's lives consist of.
Comments
Pamela Gillespie
My memory is similar to a sieve, I've bowed to reality and put reminders in my google calendar for practically everything, I hope you get your new prescription soon
Eric Dontigney
Oh, I stopped using the default document zoom in Word around 7 years ago when I writing like 10 hours a day to (ironically) help prevent eye strain. So, the font Iβve been using was already bigger than standard.
gary lutz
I forgot to ask yesterday and didn't 9read every comment but did you try to increase the font size to see if it helped?
