Yes, I think we’ve finally gotten past the childhood stage where everyone in the house is constantly sick from October through March. Don’t miss those winters.
Here’s my gripe for the day: I got new glasses. I’m near-sighted. Apparently the new prescription changed quite a bit, because while my distance vision is now excellent, I can’t read while wearing my glasses. Even the GPS looks blurry while I’m driving. My up-close vision is fine, so now every single fucking time I need to look at something up close, I have to remove my glasses. I had to remove my glasses just to make this post!
It’s annoying as shit.
Oh oh, time for progressive lenses. You’ll love them. If you go back to the eye doc quickly, you may be able to get them remade without incurring a whole new charge, just the difference in price.
My first prescription glasses were like that, but in reverse. My up-close vision was shit, but I could see far just fine. (Which is still the case.) I got glasses that were essentially prescription reading glasses, but they were only good for looking at things up-close. Everything else was a blur. At first, I thought that was fine, as I didn’t need them for anything else, but it became a pain in the ass after a while.
I did just as @needscoffee suggests, and went back and got progressive lenses. Now my glasses work both ways. If I look down (as you will in looking at a book, or mobile device screen, or trying to figure out what the fuck is on this tiny computer component) the prescription is magnifying everything so I can see properly. But if I look up/straight ahead, the prescription is not there, and I can see fine. So, I can, for example, watch TV and then look down at something on my phone, and don’t have to keep taking off and putting on my glasses.
(I still can’t just wear my glasses all the time, because I get dizzy when I move around. They really fuck up my peripheral vision. Things are distorted at the edges of the lenses. But I don’t need to wear them all the time so that’s okay, and your prescription might be different.)
Huh. Now I’m wondering why the optometrist didn’t suggest progressive lenses, because she told me I would probably have this problem, and I said, “Well, I can see just fine up close, so I can always take them off to read,” but when I said that, I thought she meant extended book reading would be a problem, not literally everything.
I may have to go back in and see what can be done.
I cannot wear progressive lenses because of the unpredictable dizziness.
If I get off balance and fall I am in for a world of trouble.
Plus I am clumsy and prone to all kinds of accidents.
(I walked backwards into a candle a couple years ago and caught myself on fire.)
I manage by taking my glasses off if necessary and it works for me. I do have prescription reading glasses and prescription sunglasses as well.
So it’s not just me. Luckily it’s not like I’m blind without them.
You are so lucky.
I am fairly blind without them!
I’m sorry. I couldn’t imagine having to wear these all the time in order to get around.
Been doing it since I was in third grade so I am used to it but sometimes I hate it!
I don’t think old-fashioned bifocals cause the same dizziness. Before I committed to progressives, I tried stick-on bifocal lenses and they worked reasonably well. I think I learned about on the Dope. Pretty cheap on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=stick-on+bifocal+lenses&crid=37IMWGV8VHZTB&sprefix=Stick-on+bif%2Caps%2C192&ref=nb_sb_ss_p13n-expert-pd-ops-ranker_1_12
With progressives, I can still lose my bearings going down a stairway if I look down.
Will that is certainly interesting. I don’t think I could handle these but maybe some people could find them useful.
I might try these on my sunglasses.
They’re definitely not stylish, that’s for sure!
The only advantage to the bifocal stick-ons is to experiment cheaply with whether your brain / balance can adjust to bifocals.
Bifocals aren’t as big an adjustment as progressives, but for some folks even that smaller adjustment is just too much and they’re destined to carry at least 2 pairs of glasses with them wherever they go, swapping as needed.
depending on how nearsighted you are it may be easier to go pinch nose. having bifocal or progressives will cut into your “sweet spot” for distant vision.
for me it was like a normal sighted person sliding on readers. Legless Nose Clip Reading Glasses Mini Portable – Giftgrovee
i only needed to use these for about 6 months. then cataract surgery fixed things nicely.
I just read an article about the 2026 National Park Park fees. One of the annual pass designs --I’m not sure if it’s a proposal or the real thing-- features an image of our current president.
Ugh. 
Hopefully people will have a choice of which card they get.
Yep, that’s how I used them.
A pleasant looking old gent and I nearly collided at Costco yesterday while going around a corner - he looked to be about 80 or older, nicely dressed, quite tall. Then I noticed his hat - a red cap with ICE where the MAGA should have been.
Bath and Body Works decants, I like to fantasize, from giant tanker trucks. One is full of artificial fruit-punch scent, another is full of cheap imitation vanilla scent. I would be anything that the play-doh scent is from BBW and is one of a hundred ‘vanilla’ smellies. Vanilla is notorious for turning strange.
I am dying at the image of giant tanker trucks filled with offensive vanillas. 