My glasses broke. I have them taped together with a skewer for support. It’s the left arm, where it attaches to the actual frame. It feels weird to have them on. It’s been a couple of weeks now. I had them together with just a piece of tape, but today, that no longer worked. I only really need them for working on the computer. I probably should use them any time I read, but I usually have them near my laptop, and am often too lazy to go get them. But working without them is also not good. So, I’m dealing with it. However, it is getting to the point that I’m going to have to do something about it. I know there are some cheap deals out there for glasses. But these are really nice. Progressives. I have some “beaters” I keep with me when I’m on the go. They only help if I’m reading something right in front of me, like a menu or something. If I look up while wearing those, it’s worse than my regular vision. That’s why I like the progressives, I can look up and see good too. Although, walking around wearing them is a little odd. Different things in different focus makes navigating a bit troubling. I usually take them off if I need to move around. I thought my new reinforcement would help, but this is the second time I’m using them today, and I can already tell, it’s not going to last very long. It wouldn’t usually be that big of a deal, but we just had to get our car fixed, with another one still needing repair, plus our camping trip, not to mention our anniversary a couple of weeks ago, we’ve been spending a bit of cash recently, and I feel it pushes new glasses to the bottom of the pile. I can use my “beaters” if it gets down to it. Although I do have concern that using them more often may cause them to no longer function the way they once did.
Our camping trip was pretty cool. We got
up there last Thursday evening. We went to San Clemente state park. We go there
every year. Sometimes twice. It’s a little over an hour from where we live. Usually
that hour is no big deal, but taking that trip in a car you don’t have much
confidence in makes it sketchy. I was a nervous wreck most of the trip. I
really got nervous when we were in stop and go traffic. I don’t want to break
down in the middle of the road. Especially when it’s “rush” hour traffic. As we
got closer to our destination, I began to calm down, and realize that we were
going to make it. It really didn’t give me any trouble. I realized I may have
been overacting. It’s sometimes hard to tell. That car has a Tire Pressure Light
that’s always on, and there’s no problem with the tire pressure. I had to
remove all of the interior lights, because the computer thinks one of the doors
keeps opening. It would kill my battery because the interior lights would be on
all the time. So, it’s hard to tell if these problems are real or not. I
recently took it to my mechanic, and he referred me to a transmission specialist.
That made me nervous. I had the transmission replaced 6 or so years ago, so I’m
hoping it’s not a big deal. It’s just difficult to try to figure out the
logistics of getting cars where they need to be while maintaining a fairly full
schedule. So, I risked it. And, after getting there and back safely, I am a lot
less nervous now. On the way home my nervousness was already down quite a bit.
No traffic helped. We got my wife’s car to the shop this week, and so I’m finally
starting to feel like we’re getting control over some of these things. Which is
nice. I don’t like being nervous all the time. I’m trying to live a peaceful existence.
Camping was a little strange at first. As
mentioned, we got up there on Thursday evening. My guitar player, who introduced
us to the group, didn’t get there until Friday afternoon. We’ve been camping
with these people for about 15 years, and it still felt kind of weird without
our friend-in-common there. I’m not sure if anyone else felt that way. Most of
them have been friends since high school. I did not feel like we were treated
differently, so it all might be in my head. Actually, now that I think about
it, I had some conversations that might not have been had if my guitar player
was there. Not really “because” of him, but since he’s the friend-in-common,
and he’s an outgoing person, he’s often a focal point. The RV people usually spend
their time in the RV, so in a way, it was kind of mellow. We had good weather
Friday, but Saturday things got nuts. Winds so hard we had to take the pop-ups
down. Which kind of sucked because it was raining too! No shelter! The RV
people were fine, but we didn’t get one invite. I know they’re kind of small,
and there were a lot of us, but it seemed strange to not be offered refuge.
Saturday was also the day for our big potluck, so the storm made us nervous whether
it would even happen or not. I’m not sure if I told you or not, but this year’s
theme was Souplantation. Everyone has been missing them since they shut down,
so they wanted to re-create it for our trip. At first, I thought the idea was a
little lame. Camping is about grilling! But there were so many cool things to
put on my salad, it really was like I was at Souplantation! Someone made Clam
Chowder, and I made Chicken Tortilla Soup. I’m not bragging, but mine vanished!
It was delicious. And people let me know. My whiskey was also a big hit. People
were loving it. I might have to make more for people. Yay, my creativity is
paying off!
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