How's your day been?

Days are getting better. 4 gallons of the light wall color, 2 gallons of the dark wall color, 2 1/2 gallons of ceiling paint later and we're calling it a day for a while. We still have my office, our two craft rooms (normal folks would call them bedrooms), the bathroom, the laundry room, and our bedroom/bathroom to do - but all of those have normal ceilings so my wife can handle most of that. There's a bit of second coat of the edging to do as well, but we're pretty much done with the main part of the house. It's all open floor plan so once you get started you just have to keep going.

It does get a little thrilling when you're edging the 13ft wall/ceiling over the stairway to the basement. Other than that it was mostly just tedious and there's way too much of that wall and ceiling that are beyond my wife's comfort zone when it comes to height.

Two of the walls (the tall ones) I think were the original color with the house so were last painted about 16 years ago. When you got up close you could see that the accent (darker) walls had been, over the years, some sort of green, gold, and salmon. Luckily the gold was the last color as I don't think I could lived here for 3 years before painting otherwise :)

So now I'll get some shop time back, and some time for some electronic projects as well.
 
A few weeks back I had to renew my d.o.t. medical card, Ipassed but I had some trouble reading the eye chart and that has never happened before. So I made an appointment with an eye doctor for a complete exam. Yup it's time for glasses. I have used readers since I was about 50 but this is the first time that my distance vision was affected. My readers need to be stronger too. So I made it to 59 before I needed glasses but now I need bifocals. Oh well, not the end of the world. At least getting older now we can get new parts! Lol.
 
woodtickgreg said:
A few weeks back I had to renew my d.o.t. medical card, Ipassed but I had some trouble reading the eye chart and that has never happened before. So I made an appointment with an eye doctor for a complete exam. Yup it's time for glasses. I have used readers since I was about 50 but this is the first time that my distance vision was affected. My readers need to be stronger too. So I made it to 59 before I needed glasses but now I need bifocals. Oh well, not the end of the world. At least getting older now we can get new parts! Lol.
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Finally joined with the rest of us!
 
Last 2 - 3 times I did my DOT physical eye test, I've found that lighting on the chart plays a huge roll in whether you pass the test or not. Trip before last there was a higher wattage bulb in the hallway where the chart was, vision was 20/15; last trip we started with light out, couldn't read the chart, when I said something about the hallway being dark, the nurse apologized and turned the light on. What was probably a 75 or 100 watt bulb, previous trip, was now a 40 watt bulb and the hall was dimly lit. That time I came in at 20/25.

Sister's old man was complaining about lighting on the chart last time he was in for his as well.

Obviously having seen the optometrist you needed help Greg, but for the benefit of others, if the chart is dimly lit make them find a different location, or turn more lights on if you can't see it.
 
@rocky1
It was an eye opener for me!:sarcastic:
Not only did my distance vision degrade but my up close vision got worse.
So now I have to decide, 2 pairs of glasses or just suck it up and get the bifocals?:whatever:
 
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woodtickgreg said:
@rocky1
It was an eye opener for me!:sarcastic:
Not only did my distance vision degrade but my up close vision got worse.
So now I have to decide, 2 pairs of glasses or just suck it up and get the bifocals?:whatever:
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Get the bifocals brother, go transitions. Takes a bit to get used to but much better.
 
I have the progressive types. It doesn't have the line like bifocals. Takes a bit to get used to em. But theres no line in the middle to surprise me when i look down. Like walking down steps.
 
I'm used to wearing readers and looking over the top of them to see regularly so the bifocal line I dont think is really going to bother me if I go that route. I dont want to spend a fortune on glasses either, the transitions would be cool though, especially on my motorcycle :cool:
 
I misspoke Greg, i meant progressive instead of transitions.
 
Transitions is the name brand of the automatic tint in the lens.
They have cheaper version of it at eyebuy direct, it's half the price, and seems just as good.
All it is, is just a coating on the lens. It wears off after about 2 years.
 
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I've had this pair for about 3 years. The tint is wearing off, but these are my bang around glasses now.
I love this style!

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Having wonderful day....

$2500 worth of queens shipped UPS yesterday, they have standing orders to hold them so they aren't bouncing around on the truck all day. Office gal had to take kids to daycare, said she'd stop at UPS and pick them up. Got there 8:25, told her that were sitting on the dock, couldn't get them until 9am, "that's there policy". She was going to just walk back and get them, but was told "someone would have to scan the di-ad and they wouldn't release them until 9."

So she came to office and when I got there I had to go 18 miles back in there too get the queens. I get there 10 am they still don't have trucks loaded and gone, stopped in office but the three yo-yos in there are too important to help me. Told me they were back on the dock. So I go back and find queens, dumbasses in brown uniforms everywhere, no one would bother stopping to help. Grabbed my box and started out, started to pass one and suggested they might want to scan that before I left with it. So he finally found someone to scan my package.

Now trying to set up nucs between rain showers. One minute the sun is shining, the next it's pouring rain.

Tomorrow is supposed to be worse.
 
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