A friend’s son asked me for a favor yesterday. I drove over, put on my mask, he had his on as well. I helped do what he needed help with, he thanked me and I left. Sounds pretty simple, right?
So, I get home and my friend texted me apologizing for his son bothering me. Apparently, my friend was going to help his son over the weekend. His son was impatient and asked me. No big deal, but his dad was pissed off and apologized profusely, while I kept trying to calm him down.
Then, the son texted me and started giving me shit for narking on him to his dad. He assumed when his dad called and started screaming at him, that his dad found out because of me ratting him out. I finally convinced him that I did no such thing, so now he’s fighting with his dad over snooping around, looking at his phone messages.
I know this isn’t super duper the appropriate thread to carry this on, but since you said you’ve ordered from them and I never have before- am I correct in assuming the listed price doesn’t include the lenses? About how much more do the (standard, not bifocal or transition or whatever) lenses cost? Like there are some on there for $7 and… hell, at that price, might as well go nuts and go for a pair of turquoise cats eye glasses and a pair of Harry Potter-style round ones just for the hell of it on top of replacing my serious dark frames with another pair of serious dark frames. But if it’s $7 plus $300 for lenses, then it’s a whole different story.
I’ve spent all morning at glasses.com trying on glasses, stick your face in the oval and they plonk the glasses on your face. Great fun trying on designer sunnies. 50% off today too on selected frames and all lenses, Kinda partial to the Ray Bans and Miu Miu but no I need cheap sunglasses.
All frames’ prices at Zenni include basic single-vision lenses. When you check out, you’re given the option to add on coatings, colors, and all that for additional cost. Definitely get multiple pairs if you can afford them if only so you don’t get in this situation again.
Yep, try Zenni. All four of my adult kidlets do it (to be clear, I don’t have any child kidlets) get theirs that way (one Phd, one JD, one MD, one Phi Beta Kappa among them-they make pretty good decisions). Once one pair got sent back for quality, Zenni cheerfully remade in different frame.
Suggest you get help in measuring your pupillary distance, tricky to do on your own without your glasses on.
I would do it but they don’t do prisms in progressives.
Your eye doctor should have the pupillary distance in your chart or notes. They don’t like to include it on your prescription since - guess what - it means you can order cheap glasses online instead of being beholden to the doctor or brick and mortar stores (which also can measure it) but I believe that by law, they have to give it to you if you ask/insist.
It’s the distance between your pupils. Don’t let 'em fool you that this might change from year to year.
Unless your face has been severely smashed, I guess, but you prolly woulda mentioned that.
Well, a week later and an update. There were no chairs available at the dialysis center for Covid-19 patients, so I had to check into the hospital for dialysis. I just got out yesterday and into a care facility for Covid-19 patients. I’ve been asymptomatic, but still testing positive for the virus, so I can’t go home yet until I have a negative test. I’m hanging in there, I’ll probably live, but this pandemic sucks. I have no idea who I caught it from, just from some random person out there. And I’ve been wearing a mask everywhere I go for months now. I just hope it’s kept someone else from catching it from me.
PSA: Stay the fuck home people, and if you can’t stay home, wear a fucking mask. It’s too late for me, but you might keep someone else from getting it.
I guess it depends where you live. I’m in the so-called Great White North, supposedly land of ice and snow, more specifically in southern Ontario. A heat wave has been ongoing here for more than a week, with daily temperatures generally above 30°C and sometimes hitting 35°C (that’s around 95°F for Americans and Liberians still stuck on Fahrenheit). I have central A/C but going anywhere (e.g.- grocery or liquor shopping) is a bitch for an old fart like me who is sensitive to heat. Picture wearing a mask, which itself makes you hotter and is a nuisance, carrying groceries out to the car from the cool store with both hands full, and by the time you’re getting close to the car sweat is literally getting in your eyes. I have the car in the garage both because (a) sitting in this hot sun for days couldn’t be good for it, and (b) prolonged periods of extremely hot weather are often followed by ferocious storms, sometimes even with hail.
It’s been miserable here. I ordered a new stereo for my Jeep back in May; it finally arrived this week (presumably due to pandemic-related supply chain issues), and I’m afraid it’s going to be too hot this weekend for me to work on it. I can go ahead and connect the wiring harness in the comfort of my living room, and I do have a garage to work in, but it will still be miserable if it’s humid. Also, I’m not the first person to install a stereo in this vehicle, and I’m mildly concerned about what I’m going to find when I open the dash.
At least I’m not trying to do this in the Southwest…
I’m in the same situation! Except no garage, so I’ll working in the sun, in a car that’s been sitting in the sun all day.
(Oh, by the way, wolfpup, 35ºC isn’t going to hurt your car. Cars sit outside in Texas and Mexico all the time… come to think of it, people do, too. Wish I were as acclimated as they are)
So my car’s just been limping along with a sick stereo (mono, actually… only one speaker working).
Anyhow, I’m seriously thinking of just taking the car, the new stereo and the wiring harness into our local garage. Car guy there says it’d be cheap, because he can do it fast.
Way too damn hot here today, and the bus featured two passengers with very loud piercing voices (I had my earbuds up to near-painful and could still hear these two) who COULD NOT SHUT UP for more than about two seconds. For a call center worker, another hour+ of nonstop yammering on the way home is incredibly aggravating. By the end of a work day, I am basically sick of human voices.
I wear in-ear earbuds (I’ve found cheap Jibs fit the best, I choose sealing up the ear canal over sound quality, for quietness-sake). Then, active noise-cancelling “can” headphones over those.
Oh, and instead of music, I listen to an exciting audiobook (The Bourne Identity right now, has a lot of detail and action not in the Matt Damon or Richard Chamberlain movies), where I really want to know what happens next…
So I focus on that instead of Myrtle’s "no good son and his skanky wife who comes over to MY house and wants to know why MY plates are crusty! Well YOU don’t have to worry about eating off them if I don’t give you any of MY award-winning Peccary Pie! Took best of show at the Lompoc County Fair which ANYone with any class would know!"
So SC’s covid numbers are launching skyward. Per the Aiken Standard:
The state also reported the highest number of positive cases of COVID-19 in a single day with 2,239, bringing the total number of cases to 54,538. It’s the highest reported daily increase by more than 300 cases.
Younger South Carolinians continue to contribute to more of the positive cases of COVID-19. Since June 1, there has been a 436.5% increase in newly reported COVID-19 cases among the 21-30 age group, representing 22% of total confirmed cases in the state, which is the largest percentage by age group.
We also just had a young child die from it today.
Our fearless leader’s response?
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster cited this trend as his reasoning for enacting a ban on alcohol sales in bars and restaurants after 11 p.m.
“We know that young adults who are rapidly contracting the virus and spreading it into our communities frequently congregate in late-night atmospheres which simply are not conducive to stopping its continued transmission,” McMaster said in a prepared statement Friday. “This measured, carefully tailored approach will lessen the opportunity for South Carolinians to put themselves and their loved ones in harm’s way.”
Note, this ban does affect non-restaurant/bar sales at all.
Well, now I wanna know what Myrtle’s no-good DIL had to say in response, and what is Peccary Pie anyway, and OMG “crusty” plates? I feel better about my hot mess of a home life now.
I’d totally eavesdrop on the rest of that trash heap of a conversation. Sounds entertaining.
So touched that you want to hear more of Myrtle’s screed, but that’s when I clicked on the noise-cancelling… :-}
As to were I got that imagery:
Somebody brought up Firesign Theatre (oddly enough, in a “What was this Ice Cream Truck Tune?” thread), and though I haven’t listened to them in decades, certain little snippets burned themselves into my prefrontal cortex.
Like the (pharmaceutical?) ad parody that included a guy-doing-falsetto line something like “…I don’t know HOW, Madge, but you always manage to make the best Peccary Pie in all Lompoc!”
Oh, and the crusty plates were a tribute to that day in middle school that we went to John-Boy’s house and no one was home, but the door was wide open. So we explored a bit. His mom was wild and “creative”, which apparently included putting glasses back in the kitchen cabinet even if they were still full of wine…
And the nice china, full of days-old food… beautifully plated (I can still see them, looks like… beef tips in a burgundy mushroom sauce, mashed potatoes with butter, and a vegetable medley).
For the love of all that is good, sweet, and holy, STOP SETTING OFF FIREWORKS!! The Fourth was last Saturday, why do you still have fireworks?
Last night, July 11, two of our neighbors got into a fireworks battle from 7:00 until after 10:00 p.m. Our dog lost his mind, knocked over the dog gate, and ran to hide in the basement.
Every time we thought it was over, they’d start back up again. For over three hours. Enough already!
