glasses

I wanted to write something profound, funny, pithy, and wise to explain my long absence from this blog.  Unfortunately, I’m not having a profound, funny, pithy, or wise season.  I’m simply feeling old and grumpy.

It’s like this — twenty years ago I didn’t need glasses to read the copyright notice at the bottom corner of the eye chart at the doctor’s office.   Ten years ago I still didn’t need glasses to read the bottom line on that eye chart, but the copyright notice was just a blurry line.  Five years ago I didn’t need glasses to read my email, though I sometimes wore a reading pair to ease the eyestrain of a long day’s work in the office.

Now I have three pairs of glasses, each for a different sort of work.  The bifocals are great for driving and seeing anything in the distance with clarity, plus that magnified bottom section makes it possible to read the labels at the grocery store.  A stronger pair of reading glasses helps with close-up work and helps me decipher the fine print on maps, contracts, and special offers that seem too good to be true.  My most important glasses, however, are the computer glasses, which are just right for general computer and desk work, plus a lot of other tasks that require clear vision in the middle distance.  Without my computer glasses, I’m practically unable to function.

This fall, for several weeks, I was practically unable to function.  I lost the computer glasses while traveling out of state.  Then came the weeks of hoping they’d be found, the weeks of waiting for the replacement pair to arrive, and the weeks of catching up on work I’d neglected because I could barely see what I was doing.

Bah, humbug, grumble, grunt.  I’m glad that’s over.

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