Hell March Intensifies

Wait, we have to learn this again?

Did we not do this… 20 years ago, with the music industry?

Yeah we used thermal blankets, in reverse, to bounce away as much radiance as possible, on all the windows, then blackout curtains behind that.

Fucking yeehaw.

Ahhahah!

Good sir, you appear have confused me with a homeowner, or perhaps HVAC technician.

Best I’ve managed is getting a HEPA filter of… I don’t remember the grade or dimensions…

… and duct taping it to a ‘mobile’ AC unit, so.as to attempt to avoid dying from the PNW Heatdome and also WildfireSmokeDome, from a few years back.

(We don’t usually have AC units in apartments around there… because… up untill literally that Heatdome… you didn’t really need them.)

… I do remember using Duck brand duct tape for this though.

I’m not currently dead, so, it probably wasn’t the worst choice, lol.

… I now wholeheartedly agree.

Yep, in that order, under those conditions, I actually have the exact same opinion(s).

Yeah that all seems about right to me.

yyyy-Yup.

Just wanted to say thanks to each of you for the explanations =D

Just wanted to say thanks to each of you for the explanations =D

… Do we have any preferred handkerchief brands?

Fabrics?

Prints?

Or uh maybe, we have uh, a favorite level of sandpaper grit?

Just, in general?

… perhaps we could argue about duct tape brands?

… If the singer of ‘Roxanne’ was RG colorblind, she might have indeed put on that red dress that night, and he wouldn’t have known.

Damn, that much huh?

Well thank god for hypercapitalist healthcare, makes gauging the situation so much easier!

Apparently I really lucked out with my vision benefits, seems like most people in this thread are … yeah more or less paying nearly, or entirely out of pocket.

But I get to pay the nonsense fake prices with nonsense fake money.

… and that is my description of this as someone who had a career in stats and data analysis, educated as an econometrician.

This shit is insane, opaque, and confusing even to a data dork autist like me, christ.

I totally get ordering online, I only didn’t because I… forgot that I had been smart enough last year, to set myself up with a fairly substantial vision ‘allowance’, this year.

If you didn’t have that? Yeah, order online, probably around roughly 1/3 cheaper in general, seems to be my rough feel of it.

I’m not using reverse psychology on you.

Personally, I’ve heard too many Lasik horror stories from doctors/surgeons of evidently dubious pedigree, and also just that the overall rates of something going wrong in a way that isn’t technically within the bounds of a stat that actually gets counted… are pretty high, actually.

I can’t even do contacts. Tried to wear cosmetic ones a few time, nope nope nope get out of my eyeballs, absolutely not.

Just freaks me the hell out.

TIL!

Thank you, I’m not very experienced at owning / using glasses.

No I don’t, not yet, but frankly, if I was planning on doing anything remotely energetic or active, I’d get a strap.

Maybe I’m weird, or very dull?

But it just seems entirely practical to me, and … honestly not much of a fashion faux pas at all, if you get a strap that isn’t some garrish design or color.

Either that or: Further bind the glasses to your face with a headset of some kind. I was fairly picky about trying out frames that fit my face well, have the uh… springy things at the hinge, that allow greater and more consistent hold to your face, than just simply hinges.

On that note: Entirely unironically, bring back fanny packs and other kinds of multi configurable, mini packs/satchels of various kinds.

They are again, often very practical, and can be made to work with many kinds of outfits so long as they are not stunningly tacky.

Oh thank you, I appreciate the gesture, but I don’t drink.

(joking lol, trying to be dull)

That seems good in theory, but I don’t know about in practice.

Do… glasses mfgers… allow people to send them lenses, from their ‘personal reserve’?

Or do they just have their own production pipeline?

Or could you find some kind of analog to a cobbler, but for glasses?

Is that even a thing that exists?

… Or are your frames simple enough you could do it yourself, if you are dextrous?

… … Or would being mildly blind hamper that process?

I legitimately have no idea, about any of those, but those do at least seem like pertinent questions.

I am astigmatic (if thats not a word, its a word now, just go with it) in both eyes, but apparently considerably moreso in one eye, which is also farsighted, where the other eye is only mildly astigmatic… but has worse actual clarity.

So my eyes are like if you made binoculars out of duct taping together two different telescopes, each differently smudged and focused.

… at least I don’t have glaoucoma or mac. degen?

I ended up getting a general use main pair of transitions, and an rx sunglasses that are not transistions… both have uv/blue light filters… all of that came to approx ~$750, but its out of my vision plan, so all I have to actually pay out of pocket is the copay for the exam itself.

It… sounds like you have an even more complex and frankly expensive set of conditions going on though.

I don’t even know what presbyopia is.

You using that word is the first time I’ve ever read that word.

Obviously, I could just wiki look it up, but … could you describe it?

Seems more… sociable.

Though that may be too much excitement for this extremely dull community.

I already got the prescription, in both paper and digital form, and I already ordered both rx transition glasses for general use, and rx sunglasses!

So, now, if I lose them again, or break them… and my vision benefits don’t go to literally 0 next year (thanks Obama Trump)… I can actually get a replacement!

I may be somewhat dull, but I am also occasionally sharp, or at least have an errant protrusion, potentially in need of being sanded down to flush =P