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11:05am on Thursday, 6th July, 2023:
Anecdote
I had my eyes tested this morning at Vision Express.
I get the impression that the word "express" there is in the same sense British Rail use it when describing an "express train", or how Robin Hood used the word "little" to describe "Little John".
The way my eyes work, I'm long-sighted in one eye and short-sighted in the other, but my brain seems able to switch between them imperceptably so everything is in focus; I only notice if the wrong one is suddenly occluded. Even when I look at something out of focus with the better eye, the other, worse eye, helps bring it into focus. This processing load for the visual cortex should apparently should be causing me to have headaches, but as I've never had a headache in my life (I inherited an immunity to them) it doesn't.
Anyway, the result of the test was that my long-distance vision is fine, so I've no need to wear specs while driving.
My short-distance vision isn't as good as it used to be, though, which I had recently noticed myself. I do have some glasses I can wear, but I usually don't (I'm not wearing them as I type this, for example). If I do, it will usually be first thing in the morning when my left eye is blurry (because of the blocked glands I had taken out a few years ago) or in the evening (when playing games with tiny fonts because they didn't scale for 3840 x 2160 properly).
Whatever, I ordered a new pair of computer specs, which hopefully will fit better than the old ones (the ones I broke an arm off trying to get it to bend in the right place, then had to glue back on with a piece of 2mm copper wire to support it). I'll probably use them maybe a third of the time I'm on the computer — less if they don't fit.
They'll be ready in two weeks.
Yes, that's definitely "express" in the same sense that "Curly" out of the Three Stooges is curly-haired.
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