Adventures in Eyesighting
Jun. 18th, 2015 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceYesterday I went to the opticians. Optometrists. Whatever. I rode my bike to Mountain View, and there I was.
Nice Dr Schwaderer talked encouragingly to me about progressive lenses, which translated itself almost automatically into varifocals; but actually I had quite decided already that I was sick of not quite being able to read either the text I'm working from or the text on the screen. Varifocals it was to be. Progressives. Whatever.
I had in fact already decided that I wanted rimless frames, because I do tend to alternate between bold emphatic frames and practically-no-frames-at-all. But the nice young Chinese boy downstairs said they couldn't do high-index lenses in rimless frames, for technical reasons; and I did not want to get into the whole I've-had-them-in-the-UK-why-can't-I-have-them-here thing, because assertiveness is so not my thing; so instead I leaped madly in the other direction, and bought frames that will do all my asserting for me.
Because I harbour delightful illusions that if I post a link to the things themselves, I will never have to post a pic of my actually wearing them, here: these are the frames in question. 3-D printed in Germany. British Racing Green. How could I conceivably resist?
Nice Dr Schwaderer talked encouragingly to me about progressive lenses, which translated itself almost automatically into varifocals; but actually I had quite decided already that I was sick of not quite being able to read either the text I'm working from or the text on the screen. Varifocals it was to be. Progressives. Whatever.
I had in fact already decided that I wanted rimless frames, because I do tend to alternate between bold emphatic frames and practically-no-frames-at-all. But the nice young Chinese boy downstairs said they couldn't do high-index lenses in rimless frames, for technical reasons; and I did not want to get into the whole I've-had-them-in-the-UK-why-can't-I-have-them-here thing, because assertiveness is so not my thing; so instead I leaped madly in the other direction, and bought frames that will do all my asserting for me.
Because I harbour delightful illusions that if I post a link to the things themselves, I will never have to post a pic of my actually wearing them, here: these are the frames in question. 3-D printed in Germany. British Racing Green. How could I conceivably resist?