You are Ponder Stiobbons.
I’ve had glasses since I was 10 and am now 29. I had Lazy Eye, and they operated to correct it. I was always grateful after, because having surgery so young essentially took away most of my fear of surgery.
My eyes have been getting worse in the last couple of years, but in good news, I can now wear soft contact lenses.
Sigh…this should be…
You *are * Ponder Stibbons.
Well, fortunately these are strictly computer/reading glasses. I take’em off to walk anywhere. With any luck, I’ll never need anything for distance.
Heh. You know, I hadn’t actually thought of that. So you’re saying this is basically poetic justice caused by my choice of user name? 
Oh, and btw, Hal. You don’t happen to have a picture of you wearing those lime-green frisbee-sized frames, do you? Or have you (wisely) destroyed all the evidence?
Possibly. Do you have your FTB enabled?
(That was the funniest thing ever. I still laugh thinking about it.)
Photochromic is good for discretely checking out the. 
Babes, for discretely checking out the babes :smack:
Maybe I need new glasses.
Me too. I just got my new, stronger pair of progressive bi-focals and they’re driving me batty looking at the computer screen. I’m hoping that they’ll get more comfortable in the next few days otherwise back to LensCrafters to take advantage of their 30 day guarantee.
On the plus side I’ve received my daughter’s seal of approval on the frames and I picked them out all by myself.
This is what I really hate about having to wear reading glasses. I love to read in bed and have been known to stay up all night, reading “just one more chapter” but I can’t manage specs against the pillow. The pillow sort of pushes the earpieces forward and they slide down my nose.
I miss reading in bed. 
Have you tried a reading pillow? They’re fairly common and you should be able to find one at your local Target (or whatever).
This link to “Reading Pillow” at Yahoo shopping shows pictures of several pillow varieties. I have a “bed lounge” variety that still works well even with the glasses.
I’ve never heard of a reading pillow before. I usually pile a whole lot of pillows to prop myself up but the pillow behind my head still pushes the specs forward. I think I’m just difficult to please.
I might look around to see if there are any ‘reading pillows’ sold locally.
Got my progressives 2 years ago - until then, though, for about 2 years I had mastered the clever trick of looking under the bottom frame of my glasses for reading (and indeed I still do that for anything requiring up-close fine dexterity). Just Tuesday I got an update on my prescription and was able to tell the optician right away something was not right, and she proceeded to do some adjusting that made things much, much better. But back in '03 the adaptation process was a bear, and to this day I strongly suspect that they never really did align my lenses correctly that time. The head-tilting and re-aiming of the line-o-sight is to this day a minor annoyance; I guess that I could get old-guy big frames, in order to avoid that…
I’ve worn the glasses since age 16, when the soft focus that I thought was the normal look of the world had started becoming a real hindrance at school. Dx: myopia and astigmatism, with substantial differences in each eye. I remember the “whoa, watch those stairs” feeling at first, as well as the slight disappointment in suddenly being able to see every blemish and imperfection in the surrounding universe.
Since, I’ve never been interested in contacts or surgical correction. Not just 'cause I’m absolutely icked at any contact with my eyeball – it takes me long minutes to even apply eye drops, what with the uncontrollable blinking – but also because I quickly embraced the spectacles as a part of my public persona, indeed I feel they lend my face some character
Now all I need to find is a set of clip-on sun filters that will work with these frames. Or go in and ask them to make me a spare set of cheap distance-vision-only sunglasses.