Yesterday I passed my Department of Transportation physical. Which I good as I hadn't had a physical checkup since sometime in the early nineties, although I figured they would have found anything seriously wrong with me when I got the metal plates in my arm from the auto accident in 2003. Was just thinking that the sexes both face indignities at the doctor's office, though womens' certainly are the harder. But with a guy you start getting to have a doctor's finger up your butt to check your prostate after you turn forty, and at any time you'll have to drop your drawers, turn your head and cough so the doctor can feel whether your intestines are leaking into your balls.
Yesterday I was on the road to work when the sun came up for the longest day of the year, but I was passed out on the couch when it set. My thought process is always a traffic jam and I have trouble deciding whether to eat, rest, or go out. Each alternative has big pluses and minuses and I have trouble setting myself free of second gusessing decisions. Always have been that way. Sit on my butt brooding.
I was a bit worried that the physical might reveal diabetes or hypertension, as my mom has both. My blood pressure was 114 over 86. When In high school I remember its having been 108 over 68. so maybe if it keeps going up ten points a decade i'll eventually be hypertensive, though I don't actually know what bp qualifies as such.
My vision tested 20/20 in both eyes, though my left was a trifle fuzzy compared to the right. That eye tends to feel maybe a bit drier at times. I have a story about my glasses that I wrote when I just got on here before I had and readership, so I'm going to retell it for those who wish to be enlightened and amused to the extent that useless information about my eyeglass prescription has the power to do so.
Bout a year and a half ago I decided to get a new pair of glasses so I walked into the JCPenney eyeglass place because it was a cheap exam and I didn't need an appointment. I go through the examination, get the glasses, and it turns out they're wrong. I said "these aren't right" and they said "you'll get used to them". Well I never did get used to them. What was going on was the prescription in the left eye was too strong, overcorrected. What happens is that the eye doctor checks out the right eye first, then goes over to the left and starts out on the prescription that the little machine reads that you can put your old glasses in and it reads the prescription in them. Thing is my left eye is a lot less nearsighted than my right, but the doctors I've been to have never picked up on this, because when you put my right eye's prescription in front of my left eye, it's overcorrected. It gives my very clear vision, but the overcorrecting lens forces my left eye to focus closer than infinity to be in focus at infinity, because of the over correction. The upshot is that my eyes were trying to focus at different distances; I could have either one in focus, but not both. So I went back to the examiner and told him about the problem, he backed off the prescription in the left eye a notch, saying that I'm probably too alert for my own good and that most people would not have noticed the error. Anyway, the new prescription was no improvement over the first. I was actually looking on ebay at old trial lens sets from the 19th century to try and figure out my prescription myself. But it occurred to me that they have reading glasses at CVS and such places, So I went to one and tried putting reading glasses in front of my incorrect new glasses to figure out where I needed to be. It turned out that with a +1.25 diopter reading glass lens in front of my -3.75 diopter nearsightedness lens my eyes matched and were perfect. So I had to create my own prescription card. I went and got another copy of it from the JCPenney guys to make sure of what I had in the glasses they had given me. I went home and put a pice of paper over the prescription card and traced the eye doctor's numerals in the prescription that I needed, then cut an pasted the new prescription numbers over the old ones, and ran the doctored card through my fax machine to make it look like I had had a copy of my perscription faxed to me, and took my new prescription to Costco and had new lenses made there.
For a while I was thinking that It was just dumb to try and save money by going to a JCPenney eye doctor who sucked, but I found that the same problem exixted in older paris of glasses, just to a lesser degree. I guess it's just wierd for someone to have eyes with such differing prescriptions as mine. My eyes have frustrated me for a long time as I have always almost had really great vision. It was best when I wore contacts, for the first hour I had them in I would have fantastic clear vision and then they would dry out and be irritating and fuzzy. I've not had them for a long time though, since all my bicycling and fishing and shooting and motorcycling are better done with glasses than in contacts that dry out and offer no protection.
Well I hope all that was just incredilbly fucking fascinating. Love and kisses to all.
Yesterday I was on the road to work when the sun came up for the longest day of the year, but I was passed out on the couch when it set. My thought process is always a traffic jam and I have trouble deciding whether to eat, rest, or go out. Each alternative has big pluses and minuses and I have trouble setting myself free of second gusessing decisions. Always have been that way. Sit on my butt brooding.
I was a bit worried that the physical might reveal diabetes or hypertension, as my mom has both. My blood pressure was 114 over 86. When In high school I remember its having been 108 over 68. so maybe if it keeps going up ten points a decade i'll eventually be hypertensive, though I don't actually know what bp qualifies as such.
My vision tested 20/20 in both eyes, though my left was a trifle fuzzy compared to the right. That eye tends to feel maybe a bit drier at times. I have a story about my glasses that I wrote when I just got on here before I had and readership, so I'm going to retell it for those who wish to be enlightened and amused to the extent that useless information about my eyeglass prescription has the power to do so.
Bout a year and a half ago I decided to get a new pair of glasses so I walked into the JCPenney eyeglass place because it was a cheap exam and I didn't need an appointment. I go through the examination, get the glasses, and it turns out they're wrong. I said "these aren't right" and they said "you'll get used to them". Well I never did get used to them. What was going on was the prescription in the left eye was too strong, overcorrected. What happens is that the eye doctor checks out the right eye first, then goes over to the left and starts out on the prescription that the little machine reads that you can put your old glasses in and it reads the prescription in them. Thing is my left eye is a lot less nearsighted than my right, but the doctors I've been to have never picked up on this, because when you put my right eye's prescription in front of my left eye, it's overcorrected. It gives my very clear vision, but the overcorrecting lens forces my left eye to focus closer than infinity to be in focus at infinity, because of the over correction. The upshot is that my eyes were trying to focus at different distances; I could have either one in focus, but not both. So I went back to the examiner and told him about the problem, he backed off the prescription in the left eye a notch, saying that I'm probably too alert for my own good and that most people would not have noticed the error. Anyway, the new prescription was no improvement over the first. I was actually looking on ebay at old trial lens sets from the 19th century to try and figure out my prescription myself. But it occurred to me that they have reading glasses at CVS and such places, So I went to one and tried putting reading glasses in front of my incorrect new glasses to figure out where I needed to be. It turned out that with a +1.25 diopter reading glass lens in front of my -3.75 diopter nearsightedness lens my eyes matched and were perfect. So I had to create my own prescription card. I went and got another copy of it from the JCPenney guys to make sure of what I had in the glasses they had given me. I went home and put a pice of paper over the prescription card and traced the eye doctor's numerals in the prescription that I needed, then cut an pasted the new prescription numbers over the old ones, and ran the doctored card through my fax machine to make it look like I had had a copy of my perscription faxed to me, and took my new prescription to Costco and had new lenses made there.
For a while I was thinking that It was just dumb to try and save money by going to a JCPenney eye doctor who sucked, but I found that the same problem exixted in older paris of glasses, just to a lesser degree. I guess it's just wierd for someone to have eyes with such differing prescriptions as mine. My eyes have frustrated me for a long time as I have always almost had really great vision. It was best when I wore contacts, for the first hour I had them in I would have fantastic clear vision and then they would dry out and be irritating and fuzzy. I've not had them for a long time though, since all my bicycling and fishing and shooting and motorcycling are better done with glasses than in contacts that dry out and offer no protection.
Well I hope all that was just incredilbly fucking fascinating. Love and kisses to all.
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I purchased two of them from Parks Sabers. An Arc-Wave model (which I'm keeping) and a Rogue model (which I just FedEx'ed off to Eli). She says we have to have a duel now, of course... though my trucking company doesn't go to Canada at all so I'm not exactly driving by. Ah well.
Heh. I just noticed they added a small Yoda model at that store... that's cute.
Holy RAIN! Well, honestly I am not complaining. It's keeping things cool for my couple days home.