I was eating a bowl of Quisp last night when I noticed that one of them had a black thing on it. It was probably just a small burnt speck from the cooking process, but I had a bad experience with cereal bugs in high school, so I wanted to be sure. I lifted the piece of cereal out of the bowl to get a closer look, and it went all blurry. Confused, I pulled it back a little. It went in focus. Close up: blurry. Out farther: in focus.
Dang.
I have suspected this was happening, but now I think it’s confirmed: my near-vision is blurring. It certainly isn’t glasses time yet, but anything closer than three inches from my eyes starts to lose focus. No more extreme close-up looking for me.
I don’t think it’s you – I think your camera needs glasses.
Embrace the Dadness!
We’re not 18 anymore… but we’re still fabulous!!
Fabulous indeed!
Fabulous with reading glasses!
they’re just so cute!
Yeah. Yeah. Your eyes get blurry. I think the real question here is, “How did you get the camera’s eye to do the same thing?”.*
Hmmm, I misread Lauren’s comment and then I wrote mine. For the record, I THOUGHT Lauren wrote, “I don’t think it’s you – I think your cereal needs glasses.”.
Who’s getting older? I think senility is setting in for you, Lloyd.
What is that asterisk for?
*Lloyd is now using logical quotes instead of traditional quotes in all of his many writings. If a sentence ends during a quotation, I’m dnag well going to end it before the quotation mark.
Don’t you already wear glasses?
Hehe … I don’t … I got something right with me … I got something right with me …
The designer reading glasses are “where it’s at”, Brad, and the Dollar Stores have kept me going in them for years already – you’ll be fine. You might seek out the Ben Franklin half-glass – very sophisticated IMHO.
And you might not need them every day for every event. I flew without a net at Advent this morning and read the entire “bridge” script for the puppet shows without mine because I left the purse on the bus. Great natural lighting notwithstanding, I was pretty dnag proud of myself.
You’ll probably get even more respect once you are a regular glasses wearer, too. Not that this has ever worked in my case…
Ok, I totally want Brad to get Ben Franklins! You would be the coolest-looking guy ever!
If you can focus on things 3 inches (8 cm) from your face then your eyes are freakishly good:
http://www.cune.edu/facweb/brent.royuk/temp/npa.jpg
My near point is about 17 cm.
Ha! Leave it to you to find a geeky graph about this! I mis-estimated earlier. My focus point is more like 5.5 inches, or 15 cm. That puts me in normal range, I guess.
I do feel better about it, though. Thanks.
Do you suppose that if we drop into the grey area on the graph we must become Presbyterian? Are Mom and Dad Presbyterians?
That must be what happened to Uncle Paul and Aunt Linda. Heh.
Was there a special graph for Episcopalians? My arm wasn’t long enough to see that graph clearly!