It’s been a week full of experiments. I had to trudge off to my annual eye exam recently, partly because that’s the one annual exam I never miss, and partly because I’ve been having ongoing issues with my work computer causing eyestrain. I was convinced that my left contact lens prescription was off, and I had become almost totally dependent on my very old prescription reading glasses. I got a new doc this time, and she set up a sort of mad-scientist experiment in which I was to mix-and-match distance contacts and multi-focal contacts with various strengths of reading glasses in order to find the Goldilocks-level “just right” combination. Trying to keep it all straight was not easy. I ended up writing myself a detailed email, explaining to myself like I’m five which lenses were in which case and which combos I was supposed to try. The distance lenses with 1.75 reading glasses were
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