New glasses, part one

Well, I picked up my new sunglasses on Wednesday evening before the city council meeting. I had eyestrain due to my eyes getting used to the first new prescription in years, but nothing too bad — it’s not a dramatically different prescription, but things do seem clearer.

OUT WITH THE OLD:

My old glasses are a pair of beat-up old Lancetti frames that I got in Egypt in the mid-1990s as my regular glasses, and they’ve been trying to spit out their screws and fall apart for years now. Jenn calls them “Harry Potter glasses,” which suggests that she and I have very different visions of Hogwarts when reading the novels. In any case, they weren’t meant to be sunglasses, don’t provide any protection from the sides, and other than having UV protection, aren’t much in the way of sunglasses at all.

IN WITH THE NEW:

In contrast, the new sunglasses, with fancy RÄ“vo frames, are curved around the sides of my face, have polarized lenses — which helps some, but is mostly just cool when looking at polarized windshields, cell phone and iPod screens — and strangely seem to make things brighter, not darker, when I put them on, thanks to a brownish tint. It’s like I’m wearing the Blue Blockers that used to be advertised on TV for so many years.

My new regular glasses will be available in a week or so, as the LensCrafters facility I went to can’t drill through lenses at that site, and had to send away for them to be made.

And yes, I need a haircut. It was also threatening to rain at the time the pictures were taken.

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