Well, I must say I've been away for a while, what has happened here,
seems so quiet..
I notice even the house of Bob is even worse.
Rob.
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:09:59 +0930, Rob Adams
<usenet+september@mmx.com.au> wrote:
Well, I must say I've been away for a while, what has happened here,
seems so quiet..
I notice even the house of Bob is even worse.
Rob.
There are postings every once in a while that may spawn a brief
conversation. My impression is that we are all getting older and
retiring or the alternative. I finally retired at 70 last month.
Jim
On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 15:44:30 -0400, Jim <Jim@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 18:09:59 +0930, Rob Adams
<usenet+september@mmx.com.au> wrote:
Well, I must say I've been away for a while, what has happened here, >>>seems so quiet..
I notice even the house of Bob is even worse.
There are postings every once in a while that may spawn a brief >>conversation. My impression is that we are all getting older and
retiring or the alternative. I finally retired at 70 last month.
Hopefully not the alternative (though I lost my wife 14 months ago) -
I retired last year and am younger than you but not much.
Over on the fezbook, the Monks of the Scary Devil Monastery group has many familiar nyms. Traffic every day or two.
My impression is that we are all getting older and retiring or the alternative.
I finally retired at 70 last month.
On 6/1/23 15:44, Jim wrote:
My impression is that we are all getting older and retiring or the
alternative.
Who are you calling old? I may have titanium parts and have to wear
glasses to see small things up close, but... oh.
I finally retired at 70 last month.
Congratulations. Has this helped or hindered recovery?
On Fri, 1 Sep 2023 14:38:46 -0400, "Andrew J. Caines" <A.J.Caines+Usenet@halplant.com> wrote:
On 6/1/23 15:44, Jim wrote:
My impression is that we are all getting older and retiring or the
alternative.
Who are you calling old? I may have titanium parts and have to wear
glasses to see small things up close, but... oh.
Myself, if no one else. I find glasses insufficient for small print at
this point. I carry a flashlight to make it easier to read.
I finally retired at 70 last month.
Congratulations. Has this helped or hindered recovery?
Given I no longer have to deal with systems used by others, it goes
well. Of course I am still capable of screwing things up on my own and having to fix them.
Given I no longer have to deal with systems used by others, it goes
well. Of course I am still capable of screwing things up on my own and >having to fix them.
I find glasses insufficient for small print at this point.
I carry a flashlight to make it easier to read.
Of course I am still capable of screwing things up on my own and
having to fix them.
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set of single-vision glasses made.
Jim <Jim@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
I find glasses insufficient for small print at this point.
The last time I got my eyes checked, near the end, the doctor flipped
down another mechanism and went through another round of "better/worse?"
When he got done, he wrote me a script for bifocals, which I have never
had before.
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set of >single-vision glasses made. I am wearing those now, but I have to
experiment with sliding them up and down my nose, or sometimes taking
them off altogether, to see things.
eye (the one that was operated on) is seeing colors more intensely
which makes dressing in the morning "interesting" since the blues and
reds in particular seem more intense.
Imagine if you will what it's like to have your two eyes with
different "prescriptions" - that's me right now!
Imagine if you will what it's like to have your two eyes with
different "prescriptions" - that's me right now! In addition my left
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 06:20:56 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set
of single-vision glasses made.
Is that about the big chunky visible reading section in bifocals?
They do make you seasick for a week or two while your brain gets used
to them, but they work fine after that.
Imagine if you will what it's like to have your two eyes with
different "prescriptions" - that's me right now!
Imagine if you will what it's like to have your two eyes with
different "prescriptions" - that's me right now!
I did try wearing the bifocals for a while when I got them, but I
couldn't quickly get used to the procedure of having to look through
only half of them to be able to see. I put on the single-vision ones
and just kept wearing them.
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
Imagine if you will what it's like to have your two eyes with
different "prescriptions" - that's me right now!
I'm not (yet?) a cyborg like you, but as far back as I can remember, my >regular script is like that. I think it started out as maybe an 0.25 >difference between left and right, and I think it's gotten bigger over
the years.
Michel <abuse@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 06:20:56 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set
of single-vision glasses made.
Is that about the big chunky visible reading section in bifocals?
It's more about the visible (to others) line across the middle of the
lens, where it switches from one prescription to the other.
They do make you seasick for a week or two while your brain gets used
to them, but they work fine after that.
I did try wearing the bifocals for a while when I got them, but I
couldn't quickly get used to the procedure of having to look through
only half of them to be able to see. I put on the single-vision ones
and just kept wearing them.
could be worse - I had cornea replacement surgery about 6 wks ago and
am waiting for the other eye. In the meantime it's like you have two different prescriptions - a different one for each eye
Is that about the big chunky visible reading section in bifocals?
It's more about the visible (to others) line across the middle of the
lens, where it switches from one prescription to the other.
Yeah that's what I meant, the visible bit.
In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>, who said:
could be worse - I had cornea replacement surgery about 6 wks ago and
am waiting for the other eye. In the meantime it's like you have two
different prescriptions - a different one for each eye
My mother does that on purpose -- she has contact lenses. Her "distance" >contact is in one eye, and her "reading" contact is in the other eye.
I don't know how long it took her to get used to it, but it works for her.
Michel <abuse@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:
In article <l9h91k-pimv2.ln1@rubberchicken.nocrap> you wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 06:20:56 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set
of single-vision glasses made.
Is that about the big chunky visible reading section in bifocals?
It's more about the visible (to others) line across the middle of the
lens, where it switches from one prescription to the other.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 04:38:45 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net <mroberds@att.net> wrote:
Michel <abuse@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:
In article <l9h91k-pimv2.ln1@rubberchicken.nocrap> you wrote:
On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 06:20:56 -0000 (UTC), mroberds@att.net wrote:
I bought a pair of bifocals, but because I am vain, I also had a set
of single-vision glasses made.
Is that about the big chunky visible reading section in bifocals?
It's more about the visible (to others) line across the middle of the
lens, where it switches from one prescription to the other.
You may want to try the line-less ones. There isn't a hard transition from >one to the other. I've had them for some time now, but don't recall any >problems in getting used to them after decades of single prescription
lenses.
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