Cellar Scribblings

[Jeff Wrangler]

They have space in NYC for meetings and such, but I will attend, I'm not about to trek into NYC for a meeting.

Do they use Teams? When I retired we were having lots of meetings using Teams.

[CellarDweller]

Yes, we use Teams a lot!

[Front-Ranger]

How has your June gone, friend?

[CellarDweller]

Hiya BetterMost friends!!!!

long time, no see on my blog!

Hope everyone is  doing well!

How has your June gone, friend?

June was a little hectic, and I'm glad it's over!  Work was busier than I expected.  I had to deal with the Monster report I usually handle, had 3 loan closings,  one that paid off, new accounts to be opened, and was feeling the stress.

July seems to be much calmer, thankfully!

Saw my friends on July 2nd for a pizza dinner, and to watch fireworks, their town does their display on the 2nd.   Spent a quiet weekend at home, it was nice to have that extra day.

Tomorrow I have a doctor's appointment.  Nothing major, my primary care physician moved out of the area, so I'm meeting a new doctor to review my files and have a 'get to know you' appointment.

[Front-Ranger]

Thank you for updating us, friend.

[CellarDweller]

Thank you for updating us, friend.

You're very welcome, Lee!   


The appointment went well today, I got along with with the doctor, and there was nothing important to note.

How are you doing??

[Front-Ranger]

I'm doing well. I seem to have more energy lately and am walking without a limp. I've healed from my detached retina. Although I have new glasses, my eyesight is not perfect and the opthamologist says cataract surgery is in my future. There is still a lot of pollen in the air which affects me, especially at night. But those are minor complaints so they don't count at all!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I'm doing well. I seem to have more energy lately and am walking without a limp. I've healed from my detached retina. Although I have new glasses, my eyesight is not perfect and the opthamologist says cataract surgery is in my future. There is still a lot of pollen in the air which affects me, especially at night. But those are minor complaints so they don't count at all!

Whatever you do about the cataracts, do not get lenses that are for distance and close up (I think they put one for distance in one eye, and one for close up in the other eye). I've never heard anyone say anything good about that. Get both eyes "fixed" for distance and use reading glasses.

[serious crayons]

Whatever you do about the cataracts, do not get lenses that are for distance and close up (I think they put one for distance in one eye, and one for close up in the other eye). I've never heard anyone say anything good about that. Get both eyes "fixed" for distance and use reading glasses.

My stepmother has done the two different contacts thing for decades and says it works fine for her. My doctor said that although there are progressive cataract lenses he refuses to install them unless the person has used the two distances in contacts form. I'd never had contacts -- I only started wearing reading glasses in my 40s -- so I wasn't about to start then. I got the distance lenses and use reading glasses, or better yet progressive reading glasses that are clear on top so I don't have to keep putting them on and taking them off. I was given a prescription, but I've never used it -- you can buy them online for less than $100. (Or from a drug store for even less if you're not picky about the frame shapes and colors.) They're not perfect, but close enough -- I can drive or watch TV without glasses and the rest of the time I wear the progressives.

[Jeff Wrangler]

My stepmother has done the two different contacts thing for decades and says it works fine for her. My doctor said that although there are progressive cataract lenses he refuses to install them unless the person has used the two distances in contacts form. I'd never had contacts -- I only started wearing reading glasses in my 40s -- so I wasn't about to start then. I got the distance lenses and use reading glasses, or better yet progressive reading glasses that are clear on top so I don't have to keep putting them on and taking them off. I was given a prescription, but I've never used it -- you can buy them online for less than $100. (Or from a drug store for even less if you're not picky about the frame shapes and colors.) They're not perfect, but close enough -- I can drive or watch TV without glasses and the rest of the time I wear the progressives.

After my surgeries I got some drug store reading glasses, but then I asked my doctor for a prescription for progressive lenses, and I just wear the glasses all the time. I can drive without glasses. I have sunglasses that aren't prescription lenses; I wear them to drive. The drug store readers actually seem to be better for close work on my model trains than the prescription glasses.

For some time, I've been trying to remember how long I had contacts. I know I got them while I was in college. In my college graduation pictures, which were taken in the fall of 1979, ahead of my May 1980 graduation, I'm not wearing glasses. But then I also remember walking into a bar in Philadelphia on a cold winter night and thinking, This is great; with contacts I don't have to worry about glasses fogging up! I estimate that would have been the early/cold months of 1988. But that seems like too long a time span for me to have had contacts, unless I had them for longer than I realize/remember.