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dragonlady7I am alive and apparently healthy. I keep forgetting Twitter doesn't update here anymore. I should probably try to figure out how to fix that, at least so I don't so frequently seem to disappear into the ether.
I am awake like an hour and a half early, which would be fine and even useful except that I don't know where I put my glasses last night and can't look for them without waking Z rudely, and even if I did look for them, well, I can't see far enough to find them without them. Kind of a catch-22. I need new ones, I really do, and I desperately want to do the Buy Cheap Glasses On The Internet thing, not just so I can switch up my look etc but also because... then, if this happened, I could go put on another pair and still be OK. Because without glasses I have an effective focusing range of two and a half feet, which is not enough to get anything done. Boo.
(I really want to get my eyes lasered, but the odds of my ever affording such a procedure are so low as to be negligible.)
I was feeling mentally better but I am definitely in stress overdrive and also in social awkwardness overdrive; I feel like I offended people and can't get over it. This is one of those feelings I hate, and it's been plaguing me through almost all of my social interactions lately. So that's kind of rough.
The wireless at work, which was provided via the unsecured wireless network at the hearing aid place next door, got cut off; they put a password on it. So now I can't answer email at work, which was something I'd really been relying on to keep up with my social life. I can't research things, can't even answer customers' questions.
I'm editing photos instead, for now, which is fine, except it forces me to stare at the results of one of my worst nights of shooting in recent memory, which I really don't feel like doing. And I keep wanting to take a break and, say, research putting in a dormer window in my attic, or finding out how much a Point of Sale system really costs for a restaurant, etc, and I can't. All I've got is my phone. At least I have that; I'd've definitely gone round the bend without it.
So that's my boring stressful awkward life. I feel physically fine and mentally crappy, oh well. I'm clinging to sanity via text messages and phone calls with K, the prospective business partner, and his wife, but worry they may get sick of it too.
I *did* figure out how to make a phone call from the car, though, so that was kind of cool. The bluetooth in the Volkswagen is reasonably good but best if you point your face at the microphone. As with most things.
But! I have cute photos to share! Not of my new haircut-- I got 11 inches cut off my hair, so now it is merely waist-length. Yes really. I feel like it's super short, but everyone else assures me it's not. I'll take a picture soon, really.
No, these photos are from Labor Day Weekend, at my folks' house, with my nephews. The big one is almost four, the little one almost two.
The whole set is here, but obviously I went a little buck-wild. So here are a couple of my favorites.
The house I grew up in, taken with a borrowed wide-angle lens.
The older nephew, playing in his "garage".
Dad-- Grandpa, fixing his car's muffler, with two assistants.
Jeep ride!
Reaching the pedals.
Towing the little Jeep for "repair".
The best part of the Volkswagen was the SUN ROOF.
I am awake like an hour and a half early, which would be fine and even useful except that I don't know where I put my glasses last night and can't look for them without waking Z rudely, and even if I did look for them, well, I can't see far enough to find them without them. Kind of a catch-22. I need new ones, I really do, and I desperately want to do the Buy Cheap Glasses On The Internet thing, not just so I can switch up my look etc but also because... then, if this happened, I could go put on another pair and still be OK. Because without glasses I have an effective focusing range of two and a half feet, which is not enough to get anything done. Boo.
(I really want to get my eyes lasered, but the odds of my ever affording such a procedure are so low as to be negligible.)
I was feeling mentally better but I am definitely in stress overdrive and also in social awkwardness overdrive; I feel like I offended people and can't get over it. This is one of those feelings I hate, and it's been plaguing me through almost all of my social interactions lately. So that's kind of rough.
The wireless at work, which was provided via the unsecured wireless network at the hearing aid place next door, got cut off; they put a password on it. So now I can't answer email at work, which was something I'd really been relying on to keep up with my social life. I can't research things, can't even answer customers' questions.
I'm editing photos instead, for now, which is fine, except it forces me to stare at the results of one of my worst nights of shooting in recent memory, which I really don't feel like doing. And I keep wanting to take a break and, say, research putting in a dormer window in my attic, or finding out how much a Point of Sale system really costs for a restaurant, etc, and I can't. All I've got is my phone. At least I have that; I'd've definitely gone round the bend without it.
So that's my boring stressful awkward life. I feel physically fine and mentally crappy, oh well. I'm clinging to sanity via text messages and phone calls with K, the prospective business partner, and his wife, but worry they may get sick of it too.
I *did* figure out how to make a phone call from the car, though, so that was kind of cool. The bluetooth in the Volkswagen is reasonably good but best if you point your face at the microphone. As with most things.
But! I have cute photos to share! Not of my new haircut-- I got 11 inches cut off my hair, so now it is merely waist-length. Yes really. I feel like it's super short, but everyone else assures me it's not. I'll take a picture soon, really.
No, these photos are from Labor Day Weekend, at my folks' house, with my nephews. The big one is almost four, the little one almost two.
The whole set is here, but obviously I went a little buck-wild. So here are a couple of my favorites.
The house I grew up in, taken with a borrowed wide-angle lens.
The older nephew, playing in his "garage".
Dad-- Grandpa, fixing his car's muffler, with two assistants.
Jeep ride!
Reaching the pedals.
Towing the little Jeep for "repair".
The best part of the Volkswagen was the SUN ROOF.
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Date: 2011-10-12 01:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-12 04:02 pm (UTC)My partner has similarly bad vision and did this recently with some trepidation because of needing a strong prescription and astigmatism correction. However he wound up satisfied with the experience and what he got.
He went with Zenni Optical since some of the other places don't seem to offer prescriptions over 10 and ZO was responsive and helpful figuring out whether they could make his glasses. It was significantly more expensive than the base price for a low prescription, due to high index, etc. however still much, much cheaper than anything he could have gotten anywhere else (I think it came out around $80 including anti-glare, etc.).
As far as the glasses, he finds them quite serviceable, if a bit heavy (the frames, I think, are thicker/heavier than his previous ones). He has had a problem with the screw falling out on the side he usually puts them on/off from, but he replaced it with one from a repair kit (well, clearly, I did, 'cause he can't fix his own glasses without his glasses, of course!) and it's fine now. So I think the repair kit is maybe more necessary with internet-cheap glasses than more expensive pairs, but otherwise his impression has been that it was totally worth doing.
Also I totally understand how big a deal cutting your hair must have been! I hope you are feeling happy with it :) It's such a funny feeling when you run your fingers through it and it just ends, way before you expect it to, huh?
(Mine is currently just above my butt (hip? iliac?) and I'm considering going back to BSL-ish, but I dunno. Haven't decided yet.)
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Date: 2011-10-12 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-13 04:53 pm (UTC)On the topic in this LJ post...a cheap way to do POS for a small business is to use Square with an iphone (or basically any other smart phone). Square charges 2.75% on all card swipes (and 3.5 percent, I think, on cards where you have to type in the number). That's not too bad. Square is a free app and provides a swiper for free.