week #41

[mellowtigger]

Our group's management talked recently about turning down other groups requesting that we take their workload. Our management told them flatly no, because we're already overloaded. That's... so very nice to hear. The last 3 weeks or so at work have been unusually mild. This, maybe, at long last, is what this job was "supposed" to be like all along? It's nice to hear that other people were stressing out this whole time too, not just me as a new person.

With this continuing reprieve, I can almost feel my mind loosening up and starting to, you know, think again. I'm doing better about reading others' posts here on Dreamwidth. I've even posted a reply or two recently, here or there.

As a good sign of my returning capacity to think, I even scheduled an optometrist appointment for late next month. I failed to ever return and get new glasses after my last appointment in 2021. I definitely need a new prescription. This time, though, I'm not getting bifocals. I hate bifocals. They don't make everything clear. They just make everything somewhat blurry. If I take the time, I can find just the right head tilt to see just the right distance, but that's just annoying. I end up taking off my glasses to read (poorly, blurrily) a book or my phone.

Speaking of, has anyone else heard of this new spiral lens technology?

Want! Me, me, I'll test them out for you!

Comments

[scrottie]

Did the progressive lenses at the insistence of the optometrist and tech then after a few days, put on my old glasses and ordered new glasses from Zenni with the new prescription and never looked back (slight simplification... I ordered more Zenni glasses with tweaked focal length to be reading glasses for working at the computer). If this thing is any good for spending hour after hour staring at the screen, *maybe*, but at this point I've given up on any kind of dual vision. I can see well enough away from the computer with reading glasses but I absolutely have to have reading glasses.

[mellowtigger]

Yes, this time when I meet the optometrist, I'm going to ask specifically ask only for distance vision glasses. If reading glasses would need a different prescription, then give me that too. I'm sure insurance would only help with one pair of glasses, but I might pay out of pocket for a second pair.

I still have a very old pair of glasses, back before the first tech gave me (against my repeatedly stated decision) progressive lenses. They were from Costco, because that's all I could afford at the time. There wasn't much option but to take the glasses, since my last pair was completely broken. I can see distance better with those old glasses than any pair I've had since.

[brian_bogue]

This may not be totally relevant but I used to have 20/200 vision. several years ago I also developed cataracts, had them operated on and went from wearing coke bottle thick glasses to not needing them except when reading. The optometrist about getting reading glasses and his comment was yes but that I would be better served by buying some of the cheap ones that they sell at almost every drug store or supermarket. I have even bought a six pack of them off Amazon. They cost less than $10 a pair

[mellowtigger]

That's a very cheap experiment. Thanks! I'll test it out to see if it works for me too.