My eyes have been getting worse and worse, so I finally gave in and made an appointment to see the eye doctor and get glasses again. (I’ve known I needed them – I just never replaced the last ones I had) but it’s very interesting trying to see when your eyes are dilated. After she put in the drops, I went back out to the lobby to wait for it to take effect. After about 10 minutes I’m thinking “This isn’t working, I should be noticing something by now!” So I picked up a magazine to relieve some of my boredom, and to my surprise, it was all out of focus. Strain as I might, I was unable to make out all but the largest print and that was at arms length. Aparently I’m very far-sighted, so at a distance everything is in focus, but I have to strain to see up close.

With owl eyes like this, you can imagine how hard it was to focus on things. On a side note, this picture does a great job of showing the loss of pigment in the skin above my eye…

My eyes have started going back to normal now, after all I can at least half-way see in order to type this – I’ll blame my usual bad spelling and grammer on my bad eyesight today.

Now, to finish the Houston Crime Stats page I’ve been working on