Myopia

[dr_tectonic]

So the first thing I did today was to run off to the DMV and renew my registration, because I was pulled over by a very nice (and attractive) cop on the way home last night who pointed out to me that my tags had expired. This was something of a surprise to me, and I even speculated that someone had stolen the year tag off my plate, but he ran it through his computer and no, they were just expired.

I managed to completely forget to renew my license plates back in August. Just forgot. Boy, do I feel dumb.

But Very Nice Cop let me off with a warning, and I thanked him profusely. kung_fu_monkey thinks he was totally hitting on me, which, in retrospect, is probably the case. VNC did, in fact, say -- and this is a direct quote -- "Have I seen you someplace?" and "Do you live around here?".

Boy, now that I write it down, it sounds really obvious. I wish that I were capable of noticing these kinds of things and having any idea how to respond at the time, rather that just after the fact. It would be cool to be, y'know, witty and scintillating.

Again with the feeling dumb.

But then I went and got my glasses fixed (earpiece broke off) down at Arvada Optical, and this is why they are so cool: even though the manufacturer of my frames went out of business, the optician guy found me a similar piece that would work, and tinkered with the hinge to make it work, and made the old earpiece match the new one, and it was only 8 bucks. And his wife, who also works there, not only remembered me, she also asked about my Mom and was able to recall details about both of us.

That's the reason my Mom and I have been going there to get glasses for the last two and a half decades. The big chain stores are just no comparison to a genuine optician. I told them that they're not allowed to retire (which is, frankly, likely to happen before too long), because then I'll have to stop wearing glasses.

Maybe I'll take that as my signal to get lasik...

Note also: Whedon X-Men comics loaned by Kate == ♥. Just in case that wasn't intuitively obvious.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Even better than real-life optician: university optometry clinic. Being able to say, "No, I really am serious: my astigmatism is so bad that if my glasses are 1 degree misaligned I get headaches", and be taken seriously, and get a half hour of attention from clinicians, and have it be free is very cool.

(The state-of-the-art diagnosis equipment doesn't hurt, either...)

Of course, if all of that optical technology doesn't cause you to see that you're being hit on by attractive cops, well, sheesh.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

I suppose you'd look cool in glasses, I don't remember ever seeing you wearing them tho. That said, what happened to your contacts, did you quit wearing them?

I am desperate to start wearing my contacts again -- I stopped due to the cold and mild allergies (not in my eyes, but why tempt fate, I say?) and hope to do the few days of ramping up again in a week or two. Next time you talk to your eye doc, ask them about Menicon Z gas perm contacts, they are really really nice -- not only do they allow more oxygen than the silicon-gel soft contacts, they are thin, light and stay clean for way longer than other contacts I've worn -- for some people it's possible to do the continuous-wear thing (up to 30 days). I've worn mine continuously for a week or so and basically I tend to take them out mostly out of habit.

[dpolicar]

It's probably for the best that you didn't respond. I mean, then kung_fu_monkey would have to start stalking VNC, who would be intimidated by KFM's shiny new red sash and respond with unnecessary force. A dramatic but ultimately pointless fight would erupt, pitting the Red Sash Monkey Kung Fu against the Very Nice Cop Kung Fu, with many stylish poses superimposed over arbitrary colorful backgrounds, culminating in some tragic accidental death that for no clear reason you would then have to travel the world seeking atonement for, while getting involved in an endless series of adventures helping worthy local people achieve readily accessible goals that would otherwise remain beyond their inexplicably limited local abilities.

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've worn gas-perm lenses since high school. (I got swtiched after I had an allegic reaction to protein deposits on my soft lenses.) I still wear them, but you have to take them out every night, and it's also prudent to leave them out for one day a week or so, and I am basically blind without corrective lenses, so I still need a pair of functioning glasses.

Next time I need to get them replaced, though, I'll look into the menicon-z stuff, though. Thanks!

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Other than the tragic accidental death bit, that doesn't actually sound terribly unappealing, though I would probably eventually long to encounter random locals who weren't, y'know, totally incompetent.

And the camera crew might be an issue.

[dpolicar]

No, sorry, everyone else would be totally incompetent... well, either that or mysterious and operating from thoroughly uninterpretable motivations. On the plus side, you wouldn't have a camera crew, but you would have a sketch artist following you around all the time.

[kung-fu-monkey.livejournal.com]

At least this would get him off the couch. :-)

Beems, are you sure you didn't get his name? I'll be happy to hunt him down.

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Yes...mysterious...{shifty eyes}