Its actually a good point, I nearly bought bifocals for the safety specs but I thought because I use verifocals that using two different types of lenses might be hard to get use to. I have a feeling though that I might regret the decision as I was thinking of getting bifocals with the bottom half having especially strong lense so I can use a micrometer without any bother.
Getting back to the age thing, Methersgate has made a good observation. .Tendency to be quite happy to stay at home rather than go out I am starting to feel the same, getting harder to find the will to go to the pub etc and socialise more. Everything seems more of an effort than it use to be apart from work. Is it contentment or is it idleness and "oh I can do that tomorrow"?
Years of employing Filipino merchant seamen makes me rather confident of my figures for astigmatism in Filipinos. However, Filipinos and Filipinas don't like to wear glasses if they can possibly help it, and would rather stumble around half blind than be seen in glasses. jack A rare picture of my beloved actually able to see where she is going; the lady on the right is my mother in law and the jackets are because this was a trip to revisit the outlaws ancestral home - Canlaon, which is Negros' answer to Baguio, but on the slopes of an active volcano...
Lovely picture, what's with the long grass there? As a specs wearer myself I think its a little silly of them not to wear specs when they are needed, maybe we look better to them without them LOL. I bet you met a lot of Filipinos if you were a merchant seamen, I occasionally go aboard seismic research vessels and its always a pleasure to bump into them and converse about their great homeland. Does the good lady have Filipino friends in the UK, do they like to congregate together like ex pat Brits do?
Sorry I couldn't see properly LOL Nothing wrong with the good ladies specs, she suits them and looks cute
oh noooooooooo, I was going to try and get that gag in when the situation arose and you beat me to it LOL
I find that expat Filipinos are a bit different to expat Brits. My ex-wife told me today that she had just threatened to leave her job if her bosses employed another Filipina - they had thought she would be pleased!
Another thing about getting older is visiting sites like this and the advertisement banners are for dating sites with mature ladies Doesn't seem to work going into the google settings and trying to stop these banners from appearing, Grumpy old men, good series
I had a great pair of varifocals made in Harrison Plaza in Malate years ago, lightweight frames, varifocal lightweight lenses and photo-chromatic coatings all for 150 quid, so they can be cheap in the Phils too, not so sure they would still be so cheap. Sadly lost them on the way through the xray machine at the front door of NAIA as I was in a rush and had them hooked through the neckline of my t-shirt, leaned forward and dropped them and failed to realise. Biggest problem is that they take about 10 days to make, with exchange rate variance I expect they would cost about 230 quid now so I've never managed to get replacements. Luckily I still only really need glasses for night driving my distance vision is still pretty good most of the rest of the time, the varifocal is great though for fast switching to reading mode, I do carry a cheap pair of readers if sitting in the pub and reading my New Scientist magazine or my IT journals, at the distance I work my vision is just about perfect for reading my monitors and laptops.
Only thing that gets me about getting older is the slightly longer amount of time it takes me to "context switch" by that I mean return to what I was doing when interrupted. Now even when younger and when I worked for myself I would always have a minimum charge of one hour for a customer support call, as when I was deep in the middle of a coding problem and had built up a delicate complex model in my head and then got a phone call to fix something, I have to park the complex model in my mind and then build a new model to solve the immediate customer problem, when that call ends it can take 15 minutes to get back into context where I am deep into my original coding world again, these days that process takes longer and that annoys me. Oh and the aches in my bones are also a pain in the arse, but then they go away when I'm in the Phils
Some people just get grumpy as they get older. Like to moan at everything. The Victor Meldrew syndrome.
