I need to. Todd’s working on the cover, and I need to finish this by the 20th of June.
I think I can.
Typically when I get to a near-finished stage I do a ‘rolling rewrite’, in which I go back to the start and fill in all the detail, check continuity, look up the names currently represented by X [literally] and in general curry the winter coat off it.
That’s in progress. I’m always amazed when it seems to be working. But it works.
Meanwhile I’m restoring the pond to the crystal clarity it had during the wedding—-I had to leave it unfiltered while we were at Miscon. And I’m hopeful that will go quickly. And Jane trimmed the wisteria and the nameless shrub she thinks is Oregon Grape or something like, and various other things, so I’m the rake-up squad. The iris are all in bloom.
And I’ve got to get to the optometrist and get my contacts prescription renewed: it’s real annoying. My far vision on the right side is still very good at 50-100 feet, but after that it gets annoyingly less so. I think a 150 lens ought to handle that. But that means getting two pair of prescription reading glasses, one for without the contact, one for with. And I should really get the insurance. Because the difference in astigmatism at varying ranges of vision plus an unusually ‘flat’ face means bifocals, even gradated bifocals, are a no-go for me (I look completely over the top of most glasses when looking up, not just half-glasses)— I have to carry multiple pairs of single-purpose glasses and try not to lose them. The only option would be lenses so large I’d look like an owl. So….I’ll just try not to lose the next pair. The ones I’m wearing are from about 2005…because I lost the ‘real’ ones two years ago. Sigh. I am worse than a six-year-old when it comes to losing or breaking glasses…but less likely to reform.
And I have to ask myself whether to go back to Walmart optometry, which is convenient and where I like the staff, or drive several miles to reach my optometrist, who has set up an independent practice, now. The second doc at Walmart is good, too. I hate Walmart. But having somebody this accident-prone user can access in a hurry and on short- to no-notice is a good thing…
Personal preference, of course, but I’ve alays liked the large lenses, see my “wedding visitor” photo Jane has. Having had prescriptions of, IIRC, 3 diopters and more for 20-400 uncorrected vision, that made some of them fairly thick at the edges, depending on the IR of the glass/plastic. But I could never accept the idea of “touching” my eyeball!
As one gets older it’s common if not universal for one’s skull to change shape, becoming shallower and broader. Beginning in my 50’s my teeth began to shift, twist, and pop forward or back as both mandibles got shorter, crowding them.
Wiishu, btw, has a garden slide show.
Just got in from cleaning the pond filter. Note to self: get some clothes dedicated for pond filter cleaning. Yech!
I tried progressive bifocals several years back, and didn’t care for them. I may revisit bifocals, because I have 2 pairs of glasses, one for driving, and one for computer work. The dedicated driving glasses are fine, but the computer ones (despite being on a dummy cord around my neck) are perpetually being taken off and forgotten, even when I’m working at the computer. My near vision is sufficient to read without glasses and for short stints at the computer, but extended computer use will make my eyes tired and burning. I think I’ll ask if they can reuse my driving glasses frames and reconfigure them into standard bifocals when I’m permitted new lenses. I kept my old glasses, which still work.
I have several battered t-shirts which I keep for gardening, painting, and other filthy pursuits. If one gets to the point where washing it would have little point or it gets a big tear, I can trash it without a qualm.
As I understand it those providers at the Wal-Mart are not part of the Org, though Wal-Mart must benefit some from their presence. The retired Army guy who cuts my hair at the nearby one advised me they are an independent business that’s been running since the late 1920s. I doubt the Waltons will see any incremental benefit from your visit to the eye care center there…
One can always have the prescriptions from one’s favorite eye guy, and have them filled elsewhere. If it is under a year in my state, or five in my sisters, you can even call up the filler and have them give you the same thing again. If you want different frames you still have to make a trip, though…
Unfortunately, the current fashion is glasses with narrow lenses top to bottom. I wear trifocals, and I had to hunt down the frames with the biggest lenses to get them. I got my glasses at Walmart, and I’ve been pleased with them. I recently had to get a new left lens as that prescription changed. I just brought in the Rx, they ordered the lens and let me know when it was ready to be put into my frames. Took them less than 5 minutes to “install” the lens and I was good to go.
I’m fully moved into my new digs and starting to get sorted out. I’m liking it very much despite the dearth of drawers — no drawers at all in the bath or half bath, only two in the kitchen, neither of which my silverware will fit into, and I had to put it in the sideboard drawer. I wish I’d known that you wanted matching silverware, CJ, as I have a nice set of stainless steel I’d have sent you just ’cause. I used to entertain a lot more than I have in recent years, and it just sits in the chest of drawers.
Hate those little ‘Granny glasses”! I don’t want to have to twist my head to see everything. I’ve got a collapsed C6-7 disc! 🙁
Ah, thank you, WOL! That’s very kind.
I know what you mean about short storage space. The kitchen cabinets we have lost a section when the previous owners installed a dishwasher—there’s a low window right next to the cabinets, so just putting it next to them wasn’t an option, but that means when we finally do remodel the kitchen…I’d love to trade one cabinet for a drawer section. My cooking-tools drawer is a mess, and the one beside it is another. What we do have is a basement, and I’d happily store things down there if I could get some drawers. We moved in a very nice little wooden cabinet next to the stove, but it’s really a little chest of drawers, and its drawers are deep: great for things like tinfoil and really rarely used things like rolling pins, but not so much for the spatulas and such that you need often and in a hurry.
When I redid my kitchen, I gained a dishwasher (yay!) but lost a storage cabinet section and drawer. In retrospect, I wish I had asked the guy who put in the new custom cabinets to make one section drawers all the way down. For many things drawers are more convenient.
My commonly used cooking tools live in a 2 liter stein which sits beside the stove. they are all business end up, so that I can tell which is what.