Sunglasses

[fishinwrench]

2 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Scaredy cat!!

I'll have nothing to do with any animal that has a butt hole higher than mine.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

1 minute ago, fishinwrench said:

Just as well.   I freakin' hate horses, so it never would have worked out anyway.

I had a summer job that lasted a couple days once at a horse farm near our house IN THE BURBS.  I was probably 10-11-12.  

I was supposed rake stalls and clean up after those dung machines.  Well I left a stall open and one of them got out and got spooked and chased me into another stall.  It was all pissed off and rearing up and kicking at me so I swatted it in the nuts with the rake.  It froze for a second then it cried out.  I'm not kidding.  Sounded like a kid screaming.  Then it took off out of the barn and everyone was chasing after it.  When they got it up back in the stall they came over and told me they didn't me to clean anything anymore.  So there ya go.  My cowboy days were over.  

[vernon]

18 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

My wife claims that her vision took a hit from having Covid (a side effect that I haven't heard anyone else mention).  

I wore glasses from age 11 to age 39, and then I fell madly in love with a rodeo cowgirl that told me I had pretty eyes and kept reaching over and taking them off.   After going without them for a couple months my vision began noticably correcting itself.     Haven't needed glasses since, and I still pass the eye exam at license renewal time just fine.   

The moral of this story is:.  Have sex with as many cowgirls as you possibly can.  👍  It's better than carrots!  

Barrel racer?🤔

[vernon]

21 hours ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

No lasik and contacts weren't an option for me either.  I can drive at night but the halos are distracting.  I never notice until winter and short daylight hours kick in.  But I had difficulty driving at night with glasses too.  I was glasses free until my 50's so it was really hard to adjust to them.   As all I could see were the stupid glasses and I never could get them clean enough it seemed.  And my cataracts weren't bad enough to be covered by insurance.  You need to be nearly blind for that.  So I paid for mine too.  Just under $10K.

If I were to do it over I might consider the single vision a little more seriously.  If it got rid of the halos but that's no guarantee either.  I sure hope your other eye is better...   

Yeah glasses have always drove me nuts too.  Was fitted with them in 8th grade but hardly ever wore them. Finally sprung for contacts when I was around 22-23 and that changed my life for the better.  Was lucky in that regard too as the eye doc said that I'd never be able to wear them due to the astigmatism.  I talked him into letting me try them for 24 hours and kept wearing them for the next 25 years until I had the Lasik.

My cataracts actually met the insurance requirement which kind of amazed me because my vision really wasn't bad at all.  I just noticed sitting in the family room there were some details that just weren't as clear as they had been and wanted to get it checked out to make sure it wasn't something serious.  Heck I could still see a golf ball from 275 yards with no problem.  

Just couldn't read script on the DVR from across the room anymore so I don't really know how I qualified for the insurance but I did and it paid for everything but the lens upgrade.  

They told me that my distance vision wouldn't be affected and that if I went with the trifocal lens I wouldn't need readers anymore so I was sold.  Turns out it wasn't all entirely accurate but then I probably only heard the parts that I wanted to hear.  If I had gone with the monofocal lens insurance would have covered the whole shootin' match but I wanted rid of the darn readers.  

And since these were the last eyes I was ever gonna have I jumped.

I tend to agree with you on the short days deal.  When it doesn't get dark before 4:00 I'll probably be just fine.  

Guys my age ain't got no business being out after dark anyways.

I do find myself wondering though about how I coulda spent that 6K on these fancy pancy new forward facing electronics but then I haven't caught a fish in so long I don't know if I coulda stood being able to actually see what I wasn't catchin' too.🙄

[wmander]

Had to chime in on this one. I'm an eye doc and always looking for new cataract ideas.  Just may have to recommend your treatment Wrench! LOL!  Google "second sight for the elderly" and it'll explain your case. Amazing what's available out there for intraocular lenses these days.  As far as fishing glasses go, Smith brand with glass ChromaPop lenses is my favorite. Driving glasses- hard to beat Randolph sunglasses.

[Terrierman]

I had lasik 11 years ago and still have better than 20-20 vision at any kind of distance.  Use readers for close work.  Night vision is as good as when I was 18.  Hated glasses and contacts, lasik was one of the best things I ever did.

[fishinwrench]

5 hours ago, vernon said:

Barrel racer?🤔

No, her gig was similar to a relay race. Not sure what it's called.  They start with 4 bandana's and lose one every round if they get beat on a round.  She never won.  I think she was into it for the sole purpose of parading her booty around in a pair of skin tight Levi's.   If they had scored on THAT she would have won hands down. 

[dtrs5kprs]

I'm usually the oddball, so might as well stick with it.

I like large, wrap around lenses, with contacts underneath, and have since my first pair of Solar Bats 20+ years ago. The quality and design of the Bats dropped off, so I went to Wiley X.

They take a beating, and do what they're supposed to do. Can run with them snugged tight up to about 65mph. Above that I have to go to goggles.

If forced to look for fish, I'd dig out my old green Bats just for that situation. The Wiley's do fine for casual sight fishing.

I keep a pair of XL Cocoons to throw over my Rx glasses, for driving and such.

 

 

[vernon]

I had my other eye done (cataract) a week ago last Thursday and am happy to report that this time the outcome was MUCH better.  Although my vision was expectedly blurry the rest of the day after the procedure I could still tell that something was different than the first surgery and in a good way.  Woke up the next morning and could see perfectly.  In fact, considerably better than I could with the right eye that had been done over a year ago prior.

At my followup appointment the doc said that both eyes tested 20/25 but that's crap.  My right eye might have been 20/25 but the left was MUCH better no matter what the machine said.

Four days later I was at my brother's house and didn't leave to come home until after dark and I was dang glad that only lived a block away as I couldn't see ANYTHING.  It was like driving through a forrest fire of smoke it was so hazy and blurry and the halos were awful and I figured that signaled the end of my night driving.

However we went out for dinner this past Saturday evening (he drove of course) and it was markedly improved.  In fact, I'm sure I could have drove without any trouble at all.  The halo's were still an annoying nuisance but other than that it wasn't bad at all.

I'm still not at my previous best of 20/10 and 20/15 but it's still pretty danged good and reading glasses are gone for forever which ain't a bad tradeoff.  

Overall pretty satisfied although it took awhile to get here!