On 3/11/2010 3:51 PM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> 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.

My bifocals for a long time had a distance prescription in the top and
zero diopter in the bottom--I had 'em because I was teaching and
couldn't see the back of the class clearly without the distance lenses
but had to work at seeing my notes with 'em.

> 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.

Order 'em off Zennioptical--they'll make anything you ask for and don't
cost much more than the ones on the rack. My reading is now .5 and it's
a matter of being able to see everything on my desk with 'em or having
to back off a bit to see close stuff clearly without 'em.

> 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.