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'War Stories'


Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Mar 15, 2018 3:36:56 pm PDT #23294 of 30002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Got my eyes dilated, so I'm hoping I can actually touch-type, because I can't really see the screen right now....

Had my eyes dilated on Tuesday to get new specs. The prescription will bring them back up to 20/20 - which they haven't been for a while because I was lazy about getting new glasses.

In other glasses news, they fixed my old glasses which snapped in half in the middle. In fact, you can't even see a seam where they fixed it.

I'm to the point where I have a distance vision prescription, a second for computer and a third for reading.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2018 3:45:28 pm PDT #23295 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I love my computer glasses! My prescription is the same, I'm pretty sure, but I need new frames anyway. I might just reup the same ones I have, but they are getting crappy-looking.


Strix - Mar 15, 2018 4:15:01 pm PDT #23296 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I've been putting off new glasses until after the move. My prescription is so out of date.

We're moved in!! We still have random crap over at the old house, but we sleep her tonight and it's where the coffee and the toothbrushes live. Guys, it's gonna be so cute when it's organized and decorated.

So tired though. And my shoulder is barking....I THINK I'LL GO TAKE THE FIRST SATISFYING BATH I'VE TAKEN IN 9 YEARS!!! IN MY DEEP TUB!!!


Pix - Mar 15, 2018 4:20:18 pm PDT #23297 of 30002
The status is NOT quo.

That's awesome, Strix! I had a very similar experience when I took a bath for the first time here last week (don't ask me why it took so long). It's not a great bathtub, but we have a tankless water heater, which means there's enough water to actually FILL THE TUB. The tub in our old house was deep and great...but the old water heater only filled it about three inches, so nsm good for bathing.

Once you start to get it set up, share pictures! I'd love to see your new digs.


Jesse - Mar 15, 2018 4:33:42 pm PDT #23298 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yay moved!! Yay baths!


Strix - Mar 15, 2018 4:43:39 pm PDT #23299 of 30002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, there will be...pix. Heh.

One new neighbor has an old beagle and a younger beagle mix. Loxie is so excited! Our backyard is huge! I can't wait to have a housewarming shindig!


Steph L. - Mar 15, 2018 5:12:09 pm PDT #23300 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Yay Strix!

I'm too the point where I have a distance vision prescription, a second for computer and a third for reading.

I kind of hate my progressive lenses. I never really adjusted to them, and when I use the reading part of the lens, I still have to hold things at arm's length.


Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 15, 2018 5:34:44 pm PDT #23301 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

SO thankful that my vision is only messed up at a distance. Everything's still clear out to about 4 feet, which covers work, reading, drawing, and tooling around on the internet at home.


Beverly - Mar 15, 2018 5:36:35 pm PDT #23302 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Yes please to pictures. Y'all's homes make me happy, expressions as they are of yourselves.

I had my eye exam...a year and a half ago, which was when the doc found the synechia. Treating that meant no new prescription at the time, and I've not been back. But it's getting pretty ridiculous how not-good my vision is. The PVDs are still present, giant floaty spidery veily things. The surgeon said scars from attempts to remove them were much more visible than the PVDs themselves. It might be worth it though, because at least the scars would be stationary and I could avoid them, unlike the giant space alien floaters, which while mostly transparent and sometimes entertaining, are always in motion.


askye - Mar 15, 2018 6:45:35 pm PDT #23303 of 30002
Thrive to spite them

Steph thanks for sharing that abkut you and Tim . It's nice to know I am not the only one.

Sorry your dad was being such a parent.

I need bifocals of some kind soon. I need prims to correct some kind of wonkiness with my vision and last time they told me I needed to wait until it was a bit worse before I got bifocals because of the prisms. A few months ago I started wearing my old glasses that have prescriptions that are really out of dye because I can see mid and close range better.

The monitors on the registers at work are really bad and it's hard to read tags. Our current registers are 35 years old, they run DOS. The monitors are black nd white, dim and have burned in images thst make it hard to read. We are finally getting the new ones on the 27th. Brand new monitors and tocuh screen. There is much rejoicing st work over this.