Dan Abel wrote:
>
> I don't know your age or prescription, but an eye doctor says:
>
> "The entire population shifts toward hyperopia between 20 and 50."
>
> This means that for people like my wife, who was already farsighted, her
> vision got worse and she now requires glasses to drive, and for most
> things. Since, I was nearsighted, my vision got better, and it didn't
> make a big change, but my glasses got a little thinner.

The last time i went to the DMV to renew my drivers license on a lark I
tried the vision test without glasses. I had worn them since high
school so I got them just before I got my drivers license. I still wear
my glasses when driving. The level of detail between what's legal and
what I'm used to is amazing. I don't want to be able to read the sign
near the exit. I want to be able to read the laundry instructions on
the label that sticks out of the shirt on that girl a few cars over.

To match this change I can no longer wear my glasses at the computer.
They went from everything glasses to drivers glasses as time passed and
my newest perscription is weaker.

I should probably have bifocals. I talked to the optometrist about it.
He said he'll give them to me if I ask but he likes to wait until folks
insist. There's no going back from bifocals.

It might be nice to have reading glasses for computer and reading use,
but the weakest they have on the rack is +1.00 diopter. Based on what I
see with those I currently want around +0.50 diopter for reading. VSP
says that's not enough to bother with. Okay, so I set the driving
glasses down when I get to the computer and I no longer bother with
glasses at home.

Last night was a home made chicken soup with rice, carrots, celery, some
dairy. Unbeleivably good but my wife just tossed it together without
writing down the ingredients.