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Travelin' Saturday
Mar. 2nd, 2013 10:18 pmI spent a very large fraction of today either shopping or waiting for a bus. It was odd.
At the root of it all was my flex account, and the fact that I still had multiple hundreds of dollars left from 2012 in it: I (QUITE HAPPILY) managed to not have any emergency room visits last year, so I needed to find a way to use that money up. Since I wear glasses, this isn't hard.
I went to my eye doctor place and ordered my first ever prescription sunglasses. They are polaroids with spiffy metal aviator-style frames and, since I was burning up money, I also got the mirror finish that makes people see themselves, and not your eyes, when they look at the lenses. The mirror finish serves no purpose other than looking cool, and I decided that I could afford to pay a little extra for some cool. It will also make them take longer to arrive, as it was explained to me that there is only one lab in the US that can apply the finish. My glasses will be ground in one lab, then shipped to the mirrorshade lab, and then finally back to my eye doctor's place. A well-traveled pair of specs!
Sunglasses will be nice. Up until my current pair of glasses I had always gotten photograys, but for that pair I needed to get bifocals (this was not a surprise, believe me) and having sprung for the fancy transitional grind I decided to skip the photograys. I spent the last summer wedded to wide-brimmed hats, and though I don't object to this a pair of sunglasses will give me options.
And hey, mirrorshades!
( More traveler's tales )
At the root of it all was my flex account, and the fact that I still had multiple hundreds of dollars left from 2012 in it: I (QUITE HAPPILY) managed to not have any emergency room visits last year, so I needed to find a way to use that money up. Since I wear glasses, this isn't hard.
I went to my eye doctor place and ordered my first ever prescription sunglasses. They are polaroids with spiffy metal aviator-style frames and, since I was burning up money, I also got the mirror finish that makes people see themselves, and not your eyes, when they look at the lenses. The mirror finish serves no purpose other than looking cool, and I decided that I could afford to pay a little extra for some cool. It will also make them take longer to arrive, as it was explained to me that there is only one lab in the US that can apply the finish. My glasses will be ground in one lab, then shipped to the mirrorshade lab, and then finally back to my eye doctor's place. A well-traveled pair of specs!
Sunglasses will be nice. Up until my current pair of glasses I had always gotten photograys, but for that pair I needed to get bifocals (this was not a surprise, believe me) and having sprung for the fancy transitional grind I decided to skip the photograys. I spent the last summer wedded to wide-brimmed hats, and though I don't object to this a pair of sunglasses will give me options.
And hey, mirrorshades!
( More traveler's tales )
