Experimenting
Jul. 16th, 2006 10:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisA few weeks ago when work got really busy, my contacts were driving me nuts and I couldn't see enough to work most of the time. I was wearing reading glasses with the contacts nearly all the time which seemed kind of whacked. So I quit wearing the contacts. But now that work is back to normal, I'm giving them another shot.
Part of the issue is light. The eye lady did tell me that in order to see well with these contacts, I need lots of light. Here in the Summertime, I keep this living room/office pretty dark. Shades drawn and lights off - for maximum cool. So I know that's part of the problem but also, I think, part of the problem is my grabbing the reading glasses all the time. I think my eyes need to get used to working without them so that's the experiment du jour. And... so far, ok. I'm typing this with no reading glasses - in the cool, darkened room - and it's working out ok.
It's another day of baseball and work. I have one ongoing monthly project which is nearly terminally boring. I'm hoping to get this month's part of it polished off today. The Mariners played mucho extra innings yesterday and I was able to make a dent. So with some luck today...
Stranger in a strange land... We moved to North Carolina (from Missouri) at Christmas when I was in the 1st grade. I could not understand a word anyone said. Today, in North Carolina, you don't have to go far to hear a southern accent but back then there was nothing but. And I had what I overheard one of my Mother's friends call a 'Yankee ear'. It was like being in a foreign country. The word paper sounded to me like piper. And every yes and no had to be twinned up with 'ma'm or sir'. I was severely reprimanded every time I forgot. All of the kids I knew had scores of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents who lived right in their neighborhoods. I had grandparents in the mid west and one cousin in Oklahoma. I might as well have been from Mars.
Part of the issue is light. The eye lady did tell me that in order to see well with these contacts, I need lots of light. Here in the Summertime, I keep this living room/office pretty dark. Shades drawn and lights off - for maximum cool. So I know that's part of the problem but also, I think, part of the problem is my grabbing the reading glasses all the time. I think my eyes need to get used to working without them so that's the experiment du jour. And... so far, ok. I'm typing this with no reading glasses - in the cool, darkened room - and it's working out ok.
It's another day of baseball and work. I have one ongoing monthly project which is nearly terminally boring. I'm hoping to get this month's part of it polished off today. The Mariners played mucho extra innings yesterday and I was able to make a dent. So with some luck today...
Stranger in a strange land... We moved to North Carolina (from Missouri) at Christmas when I was in the 1st grade. I could not understand a word anyone said. Today, in North Carolina, you don't have to go far to hear a southern accent but back then there was nothing but. And I had what I overheard one of my Mother's friends call a 'Yankee ear'. It was like being in a foreign country. The word paper sounded to me like piper. And every yes and no had to be twinned up with 'ma'm or sir'. I was severely reprimanded every time I forgot. All of the kids I knew had scores of cousins and aunts and uncles and grandparents who lived right in their neighborhoods. I had grandparents in the mid west and one cousin in Oklahoma. I might as well have been from Mars.
