Getting a new pair of glasses - Garnet's Wiki

Hooray, I finally made it to my eye doctor. I didnt get around to visiting her last year to get a new pair of glasses, eventhough my insurance allows a new pair of glasses every year.
I'm going to be getting some transition lenses in my next pair of glasses. They will also have "progressive" lenses. I'm not sure if I want to be so progressive. I just hope they don't turn me into a liberal. No actually, I guess they don't call them bifocals anymore, that's not hip. Actually, the progressive lenses just don't have that abrupt line running across the middle of them like the old time biofocals. I need the progressive lenses I guess because my eyes are relaxing and my eyes aren't adjusting as well to seeing things close up while my glasses are on. I can see closeup just fine without my glasses.
- The eye exam was really thorough. My eye doctor, Dr. Susan Mozayani has all the latest equipment.
- This will amaze you. A pair of glasses, with a decent titanium frame, polycarbonate lenses (thinner than regular lenses), transitions automatic darkens in the sun plus UV protection, and scratch resistance, plus eye exam, cost over $800 in Marin County California! I was shocked! How can people afford glasses without insurance? Fortunately I have Vision Services Plan, so it's a lot cheaper that way.
  - Glasses don't cost anywhere near that much money in Malaysia or Bulgaria. And all the screws and frames for our glasses as well as theirs are probably coming from India or China anyhow. I've been pretty lucky my current set of glasses has lasted maybe three years without the frame breaking. They are still mostly fine for distance. It's just taking them off all the time when working on the computer is getting aggravating.
Never let your eye doctor dilate your pupils in the middle of a sunny day. If you do, it will seem like the brightest day of the year. Count on spending the at least a couple of hours hiding in a dark bar, squinting at how bright the LCD is on your phone.
- BTW, it must really be terrible to be someone who does the kind of drugs that make your pupils dilate. No wonder those kind of people are useless during the day.
- The doctor gave me these really funny paper thin sunglasses. They are cheaper than 3-d cinema glasses (also known as "anaglyph glasses"). There was no way to ride my motorcycle home while wearing them. Putting them over my glasses did a poor job of keeping the light out of my eyes, too much light came around the edges. I asked her if they had the bulky over your glasses kind of sunglasses, but they don't. They wouldn't be recyclable she said. How silly is that, only in Marin do we worry about such things!
  - I need to get a sharpy and write "Georgio Armani" on the sides of the recycleable sunglasses.
Did you know that Stevie Wonder style wrap around sun glasses are a seasonal item at the drug store. The local rite aid thought they were entirely out of them. I found the last pair today, $20! Seems like an outrageous price. And they didn't even include a glasses case. They are the kind that can fit over prescription glasses, so they are huge. I went through the whole store trying to find a case to put them in. I didn't find anything, except for a pringles can. At least it wasn't some kind of $20 box.
- A little kid in the checkout line thought my paper thin recycleable sunglasses, and I was trying to wear over the top of my glasses, looked really cool. I let everyone I saw know they were a gift from my eye doctor, so they wouldn't think I was some kind of drug addict trying to hide from the glare of day.
- When I came in my house wearing the disposable sunglasses, one of my cats had this very startled reaction when he saw me. I never frightened one of my cats before.
Of course that doesn't compare to discovering that my new flashlight (a smith and wesson medium size maglight style xenon flashlight, the thing seems like it is as bright as a car headlight) uses CR123 lithium batteries that cost $10 each! That seems outrageously expensive. Rechargeable version of those batteries are $16 each. I found a kit for $42 that included a charger and two such batteries.... I bought a second flashlight to wear on my belt, it's got LED lights in it, 4 or 5 white bulbs, plus a red, green, and blue bulb, each with separate on-off buttons. At least it uses good old fashioned cheap AAA batteries.... Imagine me in a Radio Shack a few hours after the eye doctor visit, wearing my paper thin plastic sunglasses, blinding myself trying out flashlights.

What is our world coming too... I wanted to find a picture of the sunglasses, and so I did a google search.

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,340,000 for disposable sunglasses. (0.15 seconds)
Can you believe over a million references on the web to disposable sunglasses? That's incredible.

Here's the fancy name for them: "post mydriatic spectacles". Only 3280 results on Google for those....

I'm going to have to ask my eye doctor to consider these shark lids:

The worlds first self-adhesive, disposable, convenience sunglasses designed for use directly on human skin. Great for all kinds of out door activities. Lightweight, comfortable, optically clear and 99% UV absorbing, SharkLids uses a medical-grade adhesive that stays secure even when you perspire, yet effortlessly comes free when youre ready to take them off. Features a reflective, gold lens. SharkLids is a proud sponsor of Dan Sheret's Ability Trek 2007, the Extremity Games II in Florida and factory Harley-Davidson Flattrack racer, Bryan Smith. To learn more, visit our SharkLids website.

Oh yeah, now I remember what my other post was going to be..... Can you believe in evoluton after a visit to the eye doctor?