There is a classic experiment in which a guy put on prism glasses that inverted the image, and he wore them daily. Eventually his brain reinterpreted the image and ‘flipped it. When he took the glasses off, the world was inverted. It took time for his vision to normalize.
I’m experiencing something similar. And I’m pushing reading without glasses to make my eyes adjust to this new situation. My eyes are fighting to improve the clarity of what I see, and I’m using the reading glasses (the OTC sort) to help out when I need to be absolutely certain what I’m doing, but the blurring and doubling (only on printed things) is getting less and less—-eventually my eyes tire of the novel exercise and I have to use the reading glasses, but it is markedly clearer than yesterday—about the level of clarity you can get with glasses that are just ALMOST right, but blurring just a tad. The rest of the world is sparkling clear, even the stars just before dawn. Happy dance!
Give it a few more days, and I may be reading without glasses altogether! The moon in the sky is clear this morning. The number of times just in a few hours that I realize, before undertaking some task, “No, by golly, I don’t need to go find my glasses!” is amazing.
On the garden front, I’m doing the taxes and Jane’s out planting things. The weather is warming. The koi are swimming about wanting food now. So their year has officially begun. I think we’ve finally seen our last snow.
I am so tired of winter this year, but it looks as though we may have seen the last of our snow as well.
Good luck with the eyesight stuff. That can be so annoying, so it’s good that you have found things that help! Yay!
My computer has been doing an imitation of a fancy paperweight now and then over the last few days. It’s going to need extensive repairs or replacement. Ack. Hoping book sales will pick up a bit to help out. (Kat Among the Pigeons is on sale — I can give a link to the code if CJ doesn’t mind.)
Russ was home for a week, and we had a good time, though. A shame the computer didn’t show this paperweight tendency then, but that would be too easy, wouldn’t it? I know how life works! (And I know about the computer conspiracy to drive me crazy, too!)
when was the last time you defragged? a highly fragmented disk can be a pita. What version of windows?
Russ and I worked through it all and we’re sure it’s a dying hard drive. I just have to hope it hold out a few more weeks while I get the funds together to replace it. They aren’t expensive, but I am paying for Vision articles this week, plus the expense of Russ being home for a few days. We had a good time, though, so I’ll live with this problem. (grin)
It is SO nice to find a solution to a long term vexing problem like your vision.
Good Friday, I dug up a volunteer rhapis palm that had planted itself about 8″ off of our back lanai — too close for comfort! It went to the neighbors down the street; next week, another volunteer next to the outdoor tap must go, probably to the same home. I also diverted the graywater overflow to the avocado tree somewhat farther away from the garage. It is greening up beautifully after several years of limping along, I only wish I’d figured out earlier that would do the trick and maybe now I’ll get some avocados!
Finally, Happy Eostre to all!
I keep telling myself I’d like to grow an avocado tree—but up here in the land of azaleas and evergreens, they have to be in pots. Our only palm is the ponytail palm we’ve got in the living room. WHen he was a baby, Efanor used to sleep in the ponytail palm pot—but we gave it away when we moved north.
Well, our ponytail palm, one of our first plant purcases when we got up there, is now big enough I spotted adult Efanor sleeping next to it: I’d like to give it a really big pot so he could lie in the dirt. 😉
Cat lying in the dirt = grubby kitteh. How does Efanor feel about brushing?
My mom got an E-machine tower with 2 gB of RAM and a 500 gB hard drive for less than $300 at Best Buy — in fact, she got a new monitor and a new printer into the bargin and it was less than $600. I’m going to replace the computer that runs windows XP with one like it come August. I’m definitely looking into contact lenses like you got.
Finally it feels like spring. We have been having one or two good days then back to cold rain, sleet etc. Today felt like a corner was turned and the mud time is over. The frogs are coming back to the pond. We did lamb on the grill for dinner. Now the great outdoor clean-up begins and then it will be dumpster time, in between another tooth crown and a visit for an eye exam. Time to plant pansies. 😀
Glad to hear your eyes are adjusting. A friend of mine got bifocals, and never could adjust to them. To this day he carries around two pairs of glasses, and when he has to read something, switches.
As to this last winter, it got so bad I barely left the house. Today however was beautiful here. Just wonderful. I think that spring has arrived.
Wayne
I got a 1 Terabyte hard drive for $60.00 (name brand- highly rated) from “NewEgg dot com” last month to replace a dying hard drive on readyDaughter’s computer. That price included shipping…. Deals are out there
I don’t think it’s going to be a problem to get the computer working right — but at the moment even $60 is out of the question. And now I have a sick cat besides, and Wind will come first no matter what.
Just bad timing on my side. I’m gathering what funds I can, and if the computer can just hold on a bit longer, life will be fine. (grin)
We had nice weather on Easter. Today it’s grey and cold again. It looks as though it’s getting better though. For the first time in quite a while, there is no snow in the forecast. I’m going to take that as a good sign.
Of course, soon it will be hot and miserable and I’ll have something else to complain about.
In the good news side, one of my best science fiction novels is coming back from the ACOA editor in a day or two (I hope), and I’ll do the last work and get it up for sale. I also have a short YA contemporary mystery nearly done. Busy little writer on this end! LOL
Anyone with rain storms, etc., feel free to send them over here. The wet season is mostly over, and the back yard is starting to look brown and crunchy again. On principle, I refuse to pour good drinking water on the multitude of weeds living back there.
Is it possible/feasible to recycle your gray water? Last summer it was how kept my plants going.