New glasses

I got a new pair of glasses yesterday (from Zenni optical online). I very much like them. The lenses are a bit taller so I have more area in the "reading" part of the progressive lens, and I adjusted the prescription down 1/2 a diopter. The optometrist had been slowly increasing the strength of my prescription and I think she went too far; I was starting to need separate glasses for many different activities because my eyes got to where they couldn't focus on their own.

I started using my computer glasses for normal use and over a few months I exercised my eyes up to where they can focus in a wider range again, and now I can see very well at distance at the 1/2 diopter down prescription AND still work at a computer, and the progressive part is up to +1.25 now and I can read very comfortably with them.

Now I just need to get used to NOT peering under my glasses for close vision.

FWIW, the lined bifocal glasses I got earlier in the year were a complete fail. They drove me up a tree and I couldn't get used to them.

Lazy Berzerker

We're leaving for Berzerker in the morning. I haven't been for I think 2 years, though I'm not sure.
I actually don't have much planned. At this point I think that what I actually need is to go somewhere and NOT have anything to do. For the last year or so I haven't even gone to conventions without having some obligations. So maybe it's not bad that I'm kind of planning to just walk around and assist, take pictures and video, and generally sit under the pavilion, bullshit with people and read books.

I have a few little things. I have ideas for bigger things but those are for next year. I was thinking about buying a new pistol to go shoot at tin cans but I didn't get to the store in time for the permit.

I have thrown almost all of the episodes of Firefly onto my phone. I've never seen a minute of it before so I figure 20 hours in the car is a good chance to see what the big deal is. I also have about 15 books in the phone and also on the ereader so I can do that. And I have a few hours of tutorials for a piece of software I need to get up to speed on. I have a few movies in the "should have seen but haven't" category on the laptop. All told I probably have twice as much just in media than I need. I don't plan to use any of the non-text media on the sands though.

Audiobook finished

The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

This was a very enjoyable mishmash of everything. At the risk of sounding like The Princess Bride, it has love, hate, torture, revenge, magicians, gentlemen, bravery, idiocy.

Lots of fun, a bit brutal in places but really not that bad.