Cy Young, contract demands, potential collusion a trade, a signing, a surgery, a new title, a sketchy explanation, Trump, a train wreck, a billionaire's bogus image and -- jinkies! -- my glasses.
I like my glasses. I like how I look in them. I have worn them since I was 10. They are part of me. But also, I don't find the idea of putting lenses in your eyes the least bit appealing. And I find the notion of hiding that you need glasses incredibly vain (though my decision to keep wearing glasses is also vain in a way). And I have no desire to undergo unnecessary surgery that I suspect my insurance doesn't cover.
But let's say this outright: people associate wearing glasses with being a brainy nerd. That is an image I like to project. I take pride in that image. It's me.
LASIK surgery: my mother-in-law offered to pay for LASIK surgery as a birthday gift. I went to the consultation and was told that, instead of the basic surgery where you might be down for a day or 2 and then back to the pre-glasses life, my corneas were thin and I would have to have a different surgery that required several weeks of post-op treatment, including putting special drops in my eyes several times a day and doing what amounted to physical therapy for my eyes. I decided to stick with the glasses.
I tried contacts once and wore them for a week before I tired of them. I hated putting them in so much and I didn't like the way they felt. I like my glasses. They are part of who I am.
Two years ago I had cataract surgery on both eyes. I had been wearing glasses since I was a year and a half old. I considered glasses as a part of my identity, also like putting on a shirt in the morning for over 50 years. I did not feel like I had the discipline to put contacts on every day and my eye doctors told me my astigmatism was so bad that Lasik was not an option.
The cataracts though, they would only worsen so in the middle of a pandemic was no better time to have what was elective surgery.
I wore a patch for about six hours after the surgeries (done two weeks apart, that was not a good time because my new and old eyes were so far off) and the clarity from the onset was amazing. There is a regime of eye drops for a couple of weeks after, but it's not bad.
Having to not need glasses to drive, watch television or just go about my day was an incredible life change. I still need them to read. The only side effect is that I have to wear sunglasses in bright sunlight. Getting cool sunglasses off the rack is quite a perk.
I do not miss having to reach for and find glasses to see what time it is on the clock radio in the morning.
It seems like many of us glasses-wearing folk are in the same mental boat. I've had my glasses since I was 12 years old. When I got them, I thought I went from "geek" to "cool." I'll note that my first pair were Biden-like aviators, which were way cooler back then. Contacts for me were not an option at the time -- my eyes were really sensitive and they only had hard glass contacts back then. My sister had also done a number on her eyes by forgetting to take them out one evening and scratched up her eyes miserably. I have one friend who got LASIKs and really liked it. I would like to be able to see something while swimming or when I get up in the morning or while doing other important things while not wearing glasses (I'll leave that without further description), but also have a paranoia about laser surgery on my eyes. Maybe one day, but I'm not there yet.
I hate needing glasses, but I’m sticking for two reasons: old lady dry eyes, and I would end up needing readers at some point after LASIK. I’ve also noticed that people with contacts can only bear them for so many hours in a day before they switch back to glasses. Eye surgery does seem pretty scary; it’s some pretty high-value bodily real estate. I’m saving surgery for cataracts or detached retinas or something else that isn’t elective.
I’ll make a FANTASTIC curmudgeon some day, I can feel it.
IIRC this is the first time we’ve had unanimous winners of both CYA since McLain and Gibson in 1968.
Not that I am advocating for him, but the fan in me that grew up in the 70s and 80s would have been shocked that Kyle Wright finished a very distant 10th.
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I had great eyesight until my mid 40s. Wore readers for a couple of years and now am in progressive lenses. Zero chance I ever wear contacts or have mere vision correction lasic. Cataracts run in my family so there’s a decent chance of future surgery. Yick.
“The key trend is helping to pay for ballparks...by allowing the team to support the project in part by allowing it to develop adjacent real estate.”
Nice of governments to "allow[] the team to support the project," the project being building a new stadium for the team. "Orwellian" is an overused adjective, but this newspeak really fits.
I have worn (and broken/lost) glasses since I was roughly 10, and while my sight has improved over the years, they are still necessary. About 10 years or so ago, my wife (no, not her, the other one) was diagnosed with cataracts. As part of the surgery, they put in new lenses that gave her normal vision.
So now my other wife (yeah, her) is in the same boat, and looking forward to getting the same benefit from the surgery. Me, I'm sitting here rooting for cataracts.
Dollar store readers FTW. The fam begs me to shop at a place like Warby Parker but I take my glasses on and off so frequently and stick them in so many different pockets or hang them from shirt fronts that they’re constantly broken or lost. And yet, I have still not spent as much as I would have buying a single pair at Warby Parker.
I am not letting anyone point a laser at my eyes unless it means the difference between seeing and not seeing.
I have a hard time getting eye drops in my eyes. It’s physically challenging to the point where contacts, while nice, seem pretty impossible for me to adjust to.
Also I need people to think I’m smart.
Hearing parts of Trump’s speech and he sounds incredibly old. All that speaking he’s been doing for years is really aging his voice. He sounds petulant and whiny and two years removed from power, he just sounds lame. I really think the party is happy to keep his platform and dump him; isn’t that what DeSantis and his canny wife are for?
I'm bald like Craig, and I have a goatee because I kind of look like a thumb otherwise, and my default is wearing glasses. I wear daily disposable contacts when I play golf, mostly because I tend to sweat profusely and contacts allow me to avoid the problem of sweat dripping onto my lenses. I used to wear contacts every day, and I can't remember when I stopped; it was probably around the time I started telecommuting in 2010.
I'm nearsighted, but my prescription isn't that strong, and it's kind of weird, actually. My glasses are a progressive prescription, great for distance but I sometimes take them off to read, especially my phone. I tried progressive contacts but didn't like them much, and so I wear distance only, which means my arm isn't long enough to read my phone when I'm wearing contacts.
If we don't want Donald Trump to be president again, is it OK to speak to Republicans on their own terms? Like, if Joe Biden has taught us one thing, it's that 80 may not be the time of life when anyone is most suited to be president.
Ask a Republican sports fan, how would they feel if Tony La Russa or Mike Hargrove returned to manage their team? Or for a football fan, how about Jimmy Johnson or Tom Coughlin? None of those men are yet 80. But Trump will be, in the middle of the next term.
Of course, the flaw here is that President Biden is still planning to run again, which would take him up to, er, 86. I haven't yet known any 86 year olds that I would leave in charge of a high school, let alone a country, but maybe that's just me.
I like my glasses. I like how I look in them. I have worn them since I was 10. They are part of me. But also, I don't find the idea of putting lenses in your eyes the least bit appealing. And I find the notion of hiding that you need glasses incredibly vain (though my decision to keep wearing glasses is also vain in a way). And I have no desire to undergo unnecessary surgery that I suspect my insurance doesn't cover.
But let's say this outright: people associate wearing glasses with being a brainy nerd. That is an image I like to project. I take pride in that image. It's me.
LASIK surgery: my mother-in-law offered to pay for LASIK surgery as a birthday gift. I went to the consultation and was told that, instead of the basic surgery where you might be down for a day or 2 and then back to the pre-glasses life, my corneas were thin and I would have to have a different surgery that required several weeks of post-op treatment, including putting special drops in my eyes several times a day and doing what amounted to physical therapy for my eyes. I decided to stick with the glasses.
I tried contacts once and wore them for a week before I tired of them. I hated putting them in so much and I didn't like the way they felt. I like my glasses. They are part of who I am.
Lad I sit next to at work swears by laser surgery. I’m terrified of anything touching my eyes.
I got lasik in 2017. It was very uncomfortable (not necessarily painful), but it was still the best thing I've ever done.
Two years ago I had cataract surgery on both eyes. I had been wearing glasses since I was a year and a half old. I considered glasses as a part of my identity, also like putting on a shirt in the morning for over 50 years. I did not feel like I had the discipline to put contacts on every day and my eye doctors told me my astigmatism was so bad that Lasik was not an option.
The cataracts though, they would only worsen so in the middle of a pandemic was no better time to have what was elective surgery.
I wore a patch for about six hours after the surgeries (done two weeks apart, that was not a good time because my new and old eyes were so far off) and the clarity from the onset was amazing. There is a regime of eye drops for a couple of weeks after, but it's not bad.
Having to not need glasses to drive, watch television or just go about my day was an incredible life change. I still need them to read. The only side effect is that I have to wear sunglasses in bright sunlight. Getting cool sunglasses off the rack is quite a perk.
I do not miss having to reach for and find glasses to see what time it is on the clock radio in the morning.
It seems like many of us glasses-wearing folk are in the same mental boat. I've had my glasses since I was 12 years old. When I got them, I thought I went from "geek" to "cool." I'll note that my first pair were Biden-like aviators, which were way cooler back then. Contacts for me were not an option at the time -- my eyes were really sensitive and they only had hard glass contacts back then. My sister had also done a number on her eyes by forgetting to take them out one evening and scratched up her eyes miserably. I have one friend who got LASIKs and really liked it. I would like to be able to see something while swimming or when I get up in the morning or while doing other important things while not wearing glasses (I'll leave that without further description), but also have a paranoia about laser surgery on my eyes. Maybe one day, but I'm not there yet.
Remember the first time Trump said that he was running for president and we all thought that was hilarious?
I hate needing glasses, but I’m sticking for two reasons: old lady dry eyes, and I would end up needing readers at some point after LASIK. I’ve also noticed that people with contacts can only bear them for so many hours in a day before they switch back to glasses. Eye surgery does seem pretty scary; it’s some pretty high-value bodily real estate. I’m saving surgery for cataracts or detached retinas or something else that isn’t elective.
I’ll make a FANTASTIC curmudgeon some day, I can feel it.
IIRC this is the first time we’ve had unanimous winners of both CYA since McLain and Gibson in 1968.
Not that I am advocating for him, but the fan in me that grew up in the 70s and 80s would have been shocked that Kyle Wright finished a very distant 10th.
...
I had great eyesight until my mid 40s. Wore readers for a couple of years and now am in progressive lenses. Zero chance I ever wear contacts or have mere vision correction lasic. Cataracts run in my family so there’s a decent chance of future surgery. Yick.
“The key trend is helping to pay for ballparks...by allowing the team to support the project in part by allowing it to develop adjacent real estate.”
Nice of governments to "allow[] the team to support the project," the project being building a new stadium for the team. "Orwellian" is an overused adjective, but this newspeak really fits.
I have worn (and broken/lost) glasses since I was roughly 10, and while my sight has improved over the years, they are still necessary. About 10 years or so ago, my wife (no, not her, the other one) was diagnosed with cataracts. As part of the surgery, they put in new lenses that gave her normal vision.
So now my other wife (yeah, her) is in the same boat, and looking forward to getting the same benefit from the surgery. Me, I'm sitting here rooting for cataracts.
Dollar store readers FTW. The fam begs me to shop at a place like Warby Parker but I take my glasses on and off so frequently and stick them in so many different pockets or hang them from shirt fronts that they’re constantly broken or lost. And yet, I have still not spent as much as I would have buying a single pair at Warby Parker.
I am not letting anyone point a laser at my eyes unless it means the difference between seeing and not seeing.
I have a hard time getting eye drops in my eyes. It’s physically challenging to the point where contacts, while nice, seem pretty impossible for me to adjust to.
Also I need people to think I’m smart.
Hearing parts of Trump’s speech and he sounds incredibly old. All that speaking he’s been doing for years is really aging his voice. He sounds petulant and whiny and two years removed from power, he just sounds lame. I really think the party is happy to keep his platform and dump him; isn’t that what DeSantis and his canny wife are for?
I'm bald like Craig, and I have a goatee because I kind of look like a thumb otherwise, and my default is wearing glasses. I wear daily disposable contacts when I play golf, mostly because I tend to sweat profusely and contacts allow me to avoid the problem of sweat dripping onto my lenses. I used to wear contacts every day, and I can't remember when I stopped; it was probably around the time I started telecommuting in 2010.
I'm nearsighted, but my prescription isn't that strong, and it's kind of weird, actually. My glasses are a progressive prescription, great for distance but I sometimes take them off to read, especially my phone. I tried progressive contacts but didn't like them much, and so I wear distance only, which means my arm isn't long enough to read my phone when I'm wearing contacts.
I guess I'm a hot mess.
If we don't want Donald Trump to be president again, is it OK to speak to Republicans on their own terms? Like, if Joe Biden has taught us one thing, it's that 80 may not be the time of life when anyone is most suited to be president.
Ask a Republican sports fan, how would they feel if Tony La Russa or Mike Hargrove returned to manage their team? Or for a football fan, how about Jimmy Johnson or Tom Coughlin? None of those men are yet 80. But Trump will be, in the middle of the next term.
Of course, the flaw here is that President Biden is still planning to run again, which would take him up to, er, 86. I haven't yet known any 86 year olds that I would leave in charge of a high school, let alone a country, but maybe that's just me.