My OperaMaking a spectacle of myself... (Arf arf)
Monday, August 6, 2007 12:14:48 PM
I've got my new glasses. Widescreen and graduated.
They take a bit of getting used to.
I'd explained to the optometrist (Or whatever) that with my regular glasses I couldn't see the screen properly when I was typing on the computer unless I used my reading glasses (Which incidentally, I never use for reading, I'm just so used to doing it without glasses...), which meant that I couldn't then lean back when I was just surfing unless I switched back to my regular specs.
He suggested I tried lenses that gradually 'backed off' as you looked downwards. It sounded like a good idea at the time.
Then I saw the bill...
Oh well. They work OK except that when I glance downwards as a part of my normal everyday existance it feels like my eyes have gone all blurry, I have to remember to move my entire head, and when I'm typing I have to crick my head back then look downwards to see the screen. On the other hand it does mean that I can then loll backwards in my seat and look at the screen in the same relaxed manner with which I watch TV.
Talking about TV, I have to hold my head at an un-natural angle to watch it properly now. Fortunately I've found a comfortable position in the chair which holds me in that position. For a while.
Oh well, at least I don't have to change my glasses to type my blog any more.
Except that I just did, without thinking. It was an automatic reaction. Type blog: Change glasses. And as a result of this, I've noticed how much heavier my new glasses are.
So to sum it all up, I've just spent vast sums on a pair of glasses that cause me to mistrust my own eyesight, move my head around like a Thunderbirds puppet, try to slide down my nose under their own weight, and give me the occasional crick in the neck, and due some kind of Pavlovian reaction I'm not using them for the one thing I bought them for.
Fortunately the shades I got for half price as a reward for buying these new super-specs look really cool.
They take a bit of getting used to.
I'd explained to the optometrist (Or whatever) that with my regular glasses I couldn't see the screen properly when I was typing on the computer unless I used my reading glasses (Which incidentally, I never use for reading, I'm just so used to doing it without glasses...), which meant that I couldn't then lean back when I was just surfing unless I switched back to my regular specs.
He suggested I tried lenses that gradually 'backed off' as you looked downwards. It sounded like a good idea at the time.
Then I saw the bill...
Oh well. They work OK except that when I glance downwards as a part of my normal everyday existance it feels like my eyes have gone all blurry, I have to remember to move my entire head, and when I'm typing I have to crick my head back then look downwards to see the screen. On the other hand it does mean that I can then loll backwards in my seat and look at the screen in the same relaxed manner with which I watch TV.
Talking about TV, I have to hold my head at an un-natural angle to watch it properly now. Fortunately I've found a comfortable position in the chair which holds me in that position. For a while.
Oh well, at least I don't have to change my glasses to type my blog any more.
Except that I just did, without thinking. It was an automatic reaction. Type blog: Change glasses. And as a result of this, I've noticed how much heavier my new glasses are.
So to sum it all up, I've just spent vast sums on a pair of glasses that cause me to mistrust my own eyesight, move my head around like a Thunderbirds puppet, try to slide down my nose under their own weight, and give me the occasional crick in the neck, and due some kind of Pavlovian reaction I'm not using them for the one thing I bought them for.
Fortunately the shades I got for half price as a reward for buying these new super-specs look really cool.
