Aging; declining vision
Sep. 13th, 2017 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcThis morning I received mst3kmoxie and our daughter could read it more easily than I. Indeed, I had opted to put the drive in a flatbed scanner and read from the scanned image. My distance vision certainly remains very good.
While I now forget the details of past visits to optometrists and similar, I do recall that many years ago my vision was measured at 20/12 and later seemed to have degraded to 20/15 or so. I am due for another eye check which I bother with more for eye health than visual acuity but I now wonder how much further my vision has degraded and how many years away eye correction yet is.
You want hot sex?e-mail spam and my first thought was,
My goodness, that sounds tiring.Perhaps I am no longer a youth. In particular, in trying to read tiny print off a failing solid-state drive I found that, wearing their glasses,
mst3kmoxie and our daughter could read it more easily than I. Indeed, I had opted to put the drive in a flatbed scanner and read from the scanned image. My distance vision certainly remains very good.While I now forget the details of past visits to optometrists and similar, I do recall that many years ago my vision was measured at 20/12 and later seemed to have degraded to 20/15 or so. I am due for another eye check which I bother with more for eye health than visual acuity but I now wonder how much further my vision has degraded and how many years away eye correction yet is.
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Date: 2017-09-13 08:06 am (UTC)I remember a series of spams a few years ago which all had the subject line 'Night of Pleasure', except that they kept inserting random misspellings into that phrase in the usual sort of attempt to fool strict-pattern-matching spam filters.
After about ten such spams, one of them had a randomly inserted typo that promised me a 'Night off Pleasure'. I felt that was probably appropriate – after all those nights of pleasure, you could imagine someone might need some actual sleep for a change!
Perhaps I am no longer a youth.
I had a similar feeling a while back when I began to realise that on seeing a scantily clad member of my preferred gender walking around the street, my internal reaction had quietly slipped from 'phwoar!' to 'brrrr, that looks chilly'.
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Date: 2017-09-13 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
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