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  • D David Wulff

    “Who’s there? I heard you! Step out so I can see you!” I’m operating half blind now; I managed to break my only pair of glasses. One of the legs fell off and I couldn’t find the screw, and just now the damned lense popped out and stripped the other little screw holding that in (I applied a bit too much force it seems when I was taping the leg back on and stressed the frame too much. They have fallen apart! :(( Now I am a very short sighted person and I cannot clearly see this text I’m typing even if I lean as close as six inches without a lot of hard focusing - and I’ve lowered my desktop to 1024 x 768 too, the absolute minimum that I can still use Visual Studio at. I’m going to have to ring the local Specsavers in the morning and see if they can make me up a pair using my prescription records, or at the very least slot me in for a quick eye test ASAP. I can’t do anything without my glasses. :(( In a moment – don’t laugh – I’m gong to try sticky taping the lenses over the frames on my old sunglasses. I can remove the tinted lenses if I can find my screwdriver set (they aren’t prescription sadly). The frames are far too small for my lenses though, so I’m going to look like the token geeky kid at a computer fair for the next couple of days. :(( Why does this always happen at the most inconvenient of times?! :mad: :mad: :mad: [ edit ] And to top it all off, the real icing on the cake, I can't find my damned sunglasses! :(


    David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I'm waiting for Big Brother III" - JoeSox losing his credibility

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    That sucks man. The last time I broke my glasses, I was driving home from work. I stopped at the end of the driveway where I worked and tried cleaning them and they broke in half. I knew I couldn't drive without them so, with much difficulty, I parked my car and got a ride home. Luckily I had an extra pair of glasses at home.:) Brad Jennings "if the golden arches shut shop, where else are the VB people going to get work." - Colin Davies

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    • PJ ArendsP PJ Arends

      The real question is "Why do you have only one pair?":omg::wtf: Always Always Always have a second pair. Just a little friendly advice from someone who's "been there, done dat":rose:


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      In the UK there is a company, Specsavers, they are very competively priced an you get a free pair of glasses. If you are like me you have so many of the free glasses they get everywhere, and I always have an old spare pair in the car. If mine get broken I can't read the road signs, even the ones on the Motorway! Only having one pair does sound like the M$ approach, why have a backup our systems never crash!


      If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton 1676

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      • D David Wulff

        “Who’s there? I heard you! Step out so I can see you!” I’m operating half blind now; I managed to break my only pair of glasses. One of the legs fell off and I couldn’t find the screw, and just now the damned lense popped out and stripped the other little screw holding that in (I applied a bit too much force it seems when I was taping the leg back on and stressed the frame too much. They have fallen apart! :(( Now I am a very short sighted person and I cannot clearly see this text I’m typing even if I lean as close as six inches without a lot of hard focusing - and I’ve lowered my desktop to 1024 x 768 too, the absolute minimum that I can still use Visual Studio at. I’m going to have to ring the local Specsavers in the morning and see if they can make me up a pair using my prescription records, or at the very least slot me in for a quick eye test ASAP. I can’t do anything without my glasses. :(( In a moment – don’t laugh – I’m gong to try sticky taping the lenses over the frames on my old sunglasses. I can remove the tinted lenses if I can find my screwdriver set (they aren’t prescription sadly). The frames are far too small for my lenses though, so I’m going to look like the token geeky kid at a computer fair for the next couple of days. :(( Why does this always happen at the most inconvenient of times?! :mad: :mad: :mad: [ edit ] And to top it all off, the real icing on the cake, I can't find my damned sunglasses! :(


        David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I'm waiting for Big Brother III" - JoeSox losing his credibility

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        David Wulff wrote: I’m operating half blind now ...and yet you created a beautifully crafted post with nary a typo. Well done. ;P Mike Mullikin :beer:

        Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash. - Emo Phillips

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          David Wulff wrote: I’m operating half blind now ...and yet you created a beautifully crafted post with nary a typo. Well done. ;P Mike Mullikin :beer:

          Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash. - Emo Phillips

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          You can thank Microsoft Word's spell checker for that. After ten minutes of strugling to read the text in Internet Explorer I just copied it all to Word and zoomed in so I could read (and write) it comfortably.


          David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk "I'm waiting for Big Brother III" - JoeSox losing his credibility

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