Just some random bits of goings-on this week…
takaza‘s glasses broke (the bridge snapped at one of the lenses) on Friday morning, which is a bit problematic. He made many calls all over and the bottom line is that, with the eye care insurance we have, you get a choice of about 20 frames and it takes no less than a week to get new glasses. One-hour places? Sure, if you want to do it on your own dime. Now, it’s worth noting that if you’re OK with these limitations, you can get a new pair of glasses for about $30-40. Dan opted for anti-glare coating as well, so his will be $60, and they come in (hopefully) on Friday. This tells me that it would probably be a good idea for me to get a new pair of glasses sooner than later, too, since mine are about three years old and pretty scratched up anyway.
In the meantime, since he needs his glasses to drive, we’ve been car-pooling every day. This adds about 20 minutes to my commute each way, which isn’t too bad. There’s also the added benefit of time spent together, which is really pleasant. It’s especially nice on nights like tonight, when we don’t really have any dinner plans. We can get dinner anywhere we want and don’t have to rush home, then head back out (if you live in a city, you understand, I’m sure) if we so desire.
Last night’s dinner was quite tasty: rigatoni with a bacon-tomato sauce, baked under lots of mozzarella. Yum! We’re definitely going to have to make that again. Not sure what we’ll be doing for dinner tomorrow, and it sounds like we’ll be going out with friends on Friday; I predict many brain cells will be killed before that night is over 🙂 The weekend will be spent taking Dan’s mom out to lunch for her birthday, then it’s over to Antioch, with tasty grilling and other fun stuff going on there. I’m thinking about making a dessert involving strawberries for that – we’ll have to see what recipes I can find.
Finally, looking ahead two weeks, I see that Milwaukee Irishfest is already upon us! mirkowuff may be coming up for the fest; anyone else interested in joining in? I intend to go up on Saturday the 19th (yeah, it’s the day of LAFF softball, sorry). With any luck the weather will cool off by then.
If you happen to have any appoxy or super glue or don’t mind wearing duct tape and pretending it’s the latest fashion, he can keep wearing what he’s got right now, presumably. Restrictions like that are just there to reinforce your desire to spend your own money, and not waste the insurance companies time x.o
Actually, he tried both soldering them back together and using a cyanoacrylate adhesive (aka Super Glue). There just wasn’t enough surface area available for banding, unfortunately. The only way he can wear them at the moment is taped to his face with medical tape (pictures provided on request 😉
I broke my frames a while ago and had to repair them so I could drive to work. The break was on the wire holding in one lens. I fixed it the next day by using a 1/32 drill bit to drill holes evenly about the perimeter of the lens and using button thread to sew the lens to the frame, all the way around. The optomotrist who replaced my glasses was impressed: he said not only was it the first repair of that nature that he’d ever seen, but I had the lens alignment correct to within 5°.
If you post those pictures, I’ll post mine. *grins*
I think not!
{snicker} Aw, you’re no fun!
But I love you very much anyway! {*smooch*}
I’ll pay $2.00 to see them *grins*
Oh no thanks :), I’ve worn glasses long enough to know how I feel about it in times of need. I don’t think he needs to feel any worse about such a necessity.
If we can get a ride we’d love to go.
That may very well be possible. Let’s see who all is going and we’ll engineer something.