I want to go back to sleep

[caddyman]

Monday morning so of course I am tired and want to be at home. Ho hum; some things never change.

I have decided that I hate my glasses. I am lucky that I am only supposed to wear them for using the computer as apparently I have a slight astigmatism in one eye, the left one I think and my eyes get tired compensating. Other than that and a touch of presbyopia on account of my age, my eyes are fine. The optician even says that I have 20-20 vision in my weaker left and better than that in my right. I don’t know how that works: I Thought 20-20 was the best you could get. Maybe I was exposed to red kryptonite as a child or something.

Anyway. I hate my glasses. Try as I might, I cannot perfect the Giles manoeuvre; I thought I had, but I haven’t. I end up polishing them to compensate for the effects of my last polishing session, which just redistributes the smears in new and exciting ways around the lenses.

That apart, I find that over the weekend I have had some congestion on my chest. Not much, but enough to have me clearing my throat every quarter of an hour or so. Since I stopped smoking what, nearly 15 months ago now, I have barely coughed even when I had a cold, so I noticed when it all started up. There’s nothing much to it, but it’s annoying.

Maybe my lungs have finally realised that the healthy layer of tar they have had for the past 30 years isn’t going to be replenished and it is finally clearing out. Any of you who are ex-smokers, maybe you could confirm how long it takes? And yes, I know that it takes about a million years for them to recover completely, if ever.

Comments

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

What are you polishing your glasses with?
I find the microfibre clothes they dish out work well.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That's what I use. I'm just not very good at it. :-(

[failing-angel.livejournal.com]

In that case, revert to either tie or (clean) hanky *g*

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

A surefire way of getting spilt egg yolk and coffee on my specs! ;-)

[agentinfinity.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend similar. Soap work as well, though the type with moisturiser in works less well. I don't even bother with the tissue, just fingers.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

because, of course, you should never rub first them with a dry anything. It should be moist which is why they try to sell you those neat spray bottles - they are dead good and make the lens just damp enough to get all the smear off. Or you can use the Manamar method cos that works too.

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

Pffff! LIke I'd ever have one of those to hand. Huffing on them and rubbing on T-shirt does me. Am sure doing it properly would extend their life, though!

[jfs.livejournal.com]

20/20 vision means something like you can see a 20" letter at 20 yards (I may be wrong on the inches / yards, but it's of that ilk.) It's good vision, but not exceptional.

If you've got poor vision, you might be 20/10 (ie you can only see the 20" letter from 10 yards away.) If you've got great vision, you might be 20/60.

Make sense?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

That sounds sensible, yes. When my eyes are not tired I can reasd quite small writing at a fair old distance.

[mezzogiornouno.livejournal.com]

Did you say in a recent post that you have a dishwasher now? If so, whack yer specs in that (put them in a tall glass or mug to prevent rolling around) and they'll come out so clean you can almost see through them (you might recall Jenny at the Manor used to do hers that way, in the glass cleaning machine).

As regards your cough, I ditched the tabs round about when you did, and haven't coughed in ages. Do you think yours could be nothing more than a summer cold, or the usual London air?