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[oakenguy]

Assorted random health news:

Okay, this shoulder really needs to hurry up and heal. This 'mostly fine until you try to do a push-up or lay on it wrong at night' thing is getting old!


I'm adapting to the glasses. But dang, it's hard to keep the lenses smudge-free! (Inner Virgo: Aha! Something new to obsess over!!) And I'm also developing this nervous habit of adjusting them compulsively by pinching the side and pushing them back.

Visually, it reminds me of this old Canadian cartoon with an old married couple who drove each other nuts because the man would obsessively saw the furniture when he thought no one was looking, and the woman would take out her eyes (attached to her glasses) and rattle them when she thought no one was looking. (This was how I first learned that Canadians are Wacky). But the motion the old woman used when reaching up to rattle her eyes is now the same one I use. Erg.


Folks who use Spamcop or other spam-reporting sites: is it just me, or are ALL the websites advertised by spammers housed on Chinese, Brazilian and Korean servers?

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[callunav.livejournal.com]

As long as you're not doing it by pushing them up with your index finger to the nose piece - or, worse, with your middle finger - you're doing okay.

Congratulations on the glasses, btw. (Of course, this means I really need to see you, now, but we already knew that.) I remember the same kind of revelations (Wait, I didn't know you could see the individual /leaves/ on the trees...!) when I got mine (minor near sightedness, slighlty wacky and more significant astigmatism) at the age of 12. Did yours mess with your dept--no, /height/ perception? I remember spending three or four days with the sensation that I was wading knee-deep through the sidewalk.

[modpixie.livejournal.com]

so why's all the spam i get come from .cx (wherever that is)?

oh, wait...

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[ah42.livejournal.com]

CX is actually Christmas Island, which is an Australian territory near Java. They used to allow just about anybody to register a domain there, even non-residents, since they really weren't getting much locally.

[amare.livejournal.com]

I am constantly nudging my glasses up my nose and then wrinkling my nose to move them back down again. Yeah nervous tick/habit. I think it's because my glasses don't rest totally comfortably unless they're so close to my eyes that my eyelashes hit them which annoys me and down they go again. The weird thing is that when I'm wearing contacts I still do this, so it can't just be how the glasses feel on my face. It's very disconcerting to reach for your glasses and realize they aren't there.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I don't quite have the eyelash problem, but the only comfortable way to rest them on my nose leaves them so close to my bushy eyebrows that they're always smudged! Which triggers the Compulsive Cleaning Reflex mentioned above.

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[amare.livejournal.com]

yeah my eyelashes smudge my glasses too, and since that's right at eye level it's really annoying. I don't clean my glasses nearly as much as I should though, this usually means that my vision gets progressively fuzzier throughout the day until the evening comes and I wonder why it's so dim and fuzzy and I clean my glasses and suddenly things look clear again for about five minutes... and then the process starts all over. Ok so maybe it's not that drastic, but my glasses are constantly smudgy probably at least partially because I constantly touch them to adjust them on my face.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

It was called 'The Big Snit' ! The guy watched a tv program called 'Sawing for Teens' and they ended up argueing so intensely that they didn't notice that the nuclear holocaust started outside. I saw that in a filmmaking class in San Francisco a long time ago.

[superrob.livejournal.com]

First off--- You have glasses? Wow! You look good in 'em, my man!

Next thought --- YOU WERE WAVING A SWORD AROUND DURING LIKE THREE SHOWS WITH FAULTY VISION!!!!!!

AND I WAS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY MUCH OF THAT TIME!!!

This confirms my belief that I am skirting certain death on a regular basis and am simply oblivious to the fact.

Seriously, though, when I first got mine at the ripe old age of 10 or so, I was big-time miffed, because that novel 3-D effect made it feel like my feet were twice as far away from me when I watched myself climb stairs. This made me dizzy, and I was convinced my glasses were broken. And don't get me started on the aching ears and nose before if you wear them too long....

But all in all, it's better to see than not. Unless you're married to Woody Allen, I guess.