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Quentin freaked himself out. One morning, he decided the left half of his habitat was too scary. He refused to go onto that side of the cage, even though his water bottle was on that side of the cage. We tried to get him over his fear, gently coaxing him to the left side of the cage while we quietly told him that nothing on that side of the cage could harm him. He wasn’t swayed. He would lie down on his stomach and stretch himself as far as possible to grab things on that side of the cage with his teeth and drag them to the other side.
What does Quentin know that we don’t know?
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I did a massive clean-up of my TBR and Libby holds. No mercy. If there was no chance there would be a day I’d want to read the book, it moved over to my “no longer interested” tab on the spreadsheet. Hundreds of books ended up on that tab, opening up new spaces on my Libby holds list. It feels good to be organized.
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I now see better without my glasses than with my progressives when it comes to close-up stuff, like pouring olive oil from the larger bottle into the smaller carafe. I cannot see where to aim the olive oil (and should probably use the funnel rather than eyeball it) if I leave my progressives on. I have to take them off and look at the carafe opening, glasses-free. It’s weird not to be able to see things close to my face after a lifetime of not being able to see things far away from my face.
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Imagine if your life was looking at very small things with a laser and you then have to switch between glasses off/safety glasses on to see the small things and then glasses on/other, bigger safety glasses over glasses to photograph the small things and hoping you marked them well enough that you didn’t have to repeat this rigamarole all over again when positioning the item under the camera so you can see the small things on the screen.
I don’t miss that. Now I just do glasses on/off for some knitting and when I’m playing games on my phone while watching TV.
Also, poor Quentin! Can you move his home to a different location and see if maybe he needs a new cage?
Poor Quentin. What scared him indeed?
Sounds like you need new progressives. I’m finding if I read for long on my phone, then it takes my eyes a long time to adjust to the distance, even though my progressives have worked for a long time (with tweaks as my eyes change). Old aged eyes, apparently. Sigh. Maybe I need to take my glasses off?
I tried progressives 7-8 years ago and nope. So I have bifocals and separate computer glasses. And honestly I don’t use the bifocal part much – my default around the house when not working is no glasses, including when reading. To think up until about 10-15 years ago I had a single pair of glasses for everything…and back then my default was to wear my glasses around the house.
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