I didn't get glasses until my thirties, but they were for distance and a slight astigmatism, and my eyesight wasn't that bad really. I do remember feeling shorter when I had them on. The ground seemed closer!

Now I really just use reading glasses, but I need progressives. I have perfected the over the glasses stare, but...

We ordered takeout from Grill Kebab tonight. So good.

You guys are seriously inspiring me to not eat the leftovers in the fridge for dinner tonight...

So I did order lunch, and I didn't use Doordash because I remembered javachik had recommended Slice as being better for the restaurant and I wanted pizza anyway. Got a sort of sampler - a pizza, some pasta and garlic bread, and a salad, as this is a new-to-me restaurant and I want to establish a baseline for future orders and also plan to eat off this delivery for at least a couple of days. Also, this was around 2 and I was starving. Had my one slice of pizza to determine that, yes, tasty when hot and fresh; had a third of the pasta and about a third of the garlic bread and then I was stuffed and probably will not need dinner. Which is a problem in the very stupid sense that what I want to do now is watch WandaVision and eat pizza and I am too full for that second part! But I can still watch WandaVision and remind myself that there is pizza for tomorrow.

i'm so bored with my food. And hungry. Just stuffed myself with too many handfuls of popcorn, and now I'm considering NOT walking the dog. And just flopping to watch WandaVision.

I would have a cocktail but I'm doing dry Feb, sigh. My liver needs a break after the last year.

I had to skim: Steph, I hope you & Tim recover swiftly with minimal after affects.

The local dive bar has reopened their outdoor garden again, and it's so tempting to go around the corner and get some ribs or something. Sigh. No, I will be good, and eat kale and a fried egg.

Mmm, ribs. But kale and a fried egg honestly does sound good.

So, The Expanse season ended, and ZEP's most recent episode was the midseason finale (which I should have guessed, but I never realize that until after the fact) so I have only WandaVision as a regularly airing thing to watch. So maybe I should add something? Or catch up on something I missed? Anyone want to advise me?

Resident Alien on SyFy has only had two episodes so far. I'm not sure I like it, yet, but I'll keep on for a few more episodes just because of Alan Tudyk.

Oh, right. I had decided to wait for someone to tell me that was good, I think. The trailer didn’t grab me.

I plan to advise each of them to just put "LLEEEEEEERRRROOOOOYYYY JENKINS!" on their form.

“All shall love me and despair” is my go-to for those situations.

Related to one major topic of discussion today, I have come to realize lately that I already need a new prescription just barely more than a year after the last one; my right eye has gotten so much worse that if I wear the progressives to read my left eye is doing all the work and the right eye is just cruising along going, "There are definitely black marks on the white paper, and, hey, look, that's definitely a c! Unless it's an o. It could even be an e, hell if I know."

Related to another major topic of discussion today, I suffered take-out disappointment today, when a delicious sandwich place from whom I'd ordered online for pick-up before with no problems first failed to have my order when I went to pick it up, and then took my order in person and made me the wrong half-a-sandwich (ham with avocado, so literally nothing edible but the bread). So I slogged back out and gave the half-a-sandwich to the first homeless person I met, who ate everything else and gave the ham to her pupper, and then I got an egg salad sandwich from Walgreens. I am still kind of bumming over it.

Related to no topics of discussion today, my dept. is doing regular team-building exercises in the form of Friday afternoon game hours (strictly speaking, team-building plus gift cards). Last week was online bingo, at which most of us cheerfully lost, but today was trivia, which I really thought I had a shot at. Except that we used an online random-trivia-question-generating program that leaned heavily toward the obscure, the geographic, and the hard sciences.

One of the questions was, "What are the maximum possible states for an army-grade Enigma machine?" To which the four possible answers were 10 x (0.XX x something) squared, with the only variant being the tenth and hundredth places after the 0. and all the other numbers being identical.

Another question was "What is the total area of Vatican City, in square km?"

And there were multiple questions about various Cartesian and other mathematical-philosophical proofs or formulas, of which all I can remember is the word Cartesian, because my last math class was 36 years ago and I literally could not name a single major mathematician-philosopher in all of recorded history if you put a gun to my face. I didn't even know Descartes was a mathy guy until today.

I did manage to correctly answer the question about which of four previous Soviet bloc nations is *not* part of the continent of Asia, but only because I have vague childhood memories of watching an episode of Cheers in which Coach is trying to finally get his high school diploma and has realized he can remember facts better if he makes up songs about them and has written a song about Albania that begins, "ALBAAAAA-NI-A! ALBAAAA-NI-A! You border on the AAAAA-DRIIIII-ATIC!" and I was pretty sure that the Adriatic is not super close to Asia.

So, thanks, Cheers staff writers, for enabling me to merely *mostly* instead of *thoroughly* humiliate myself.

ION, my heart squinches up with happiness every time I read about someone's mom or dad getting vaccinated. I'm so, so desperately glad.

My aunt and uncle are both going to be moved out of their respective ICUs and into regular hospital rooms as soon as rooms become available, so that's good.